The song "Fortnight" by Taylor Swift and Post Malone tells a story about strong feelings, complicated relationships, and secret wishes. It talks about love, betrayal, and wanting someone who doesn't feel the same. The word "fortnight" shows short-lived happiness and guilty pleasures, leading to sadness. It shows how messy relationships can be and the results of hiding emotions. “I was supposed to be sent away / But they forgot to come and get me,” she kickstarts the song in the first verse with lines suggesting an admission to a hospital for people with mental illnesses. She goes in the verse admitting her lover is the reason why she is like this. In the chorus, she sings about their time in love and reflects on how he has now settled with someone else. “I took the miracle move-on drug, the effects were temporary / And I love you, it’s ruining my life,” on the second verse she details her struggles to forget about him and the negative effects of her failure. “Thought of callin’ ya, but you won’t pick up / ‘Nother fortnight lost in America,” Post Malone sings in the outro.
We're here, said Daemon Duncetan, all about a little raise
To help us get through to those better days
'cause we've been united and our colour is true
And we really mean business and could do it with you
Oh yes, said Holy Peter, standing by the pearly gate
I ain't sure that the Master's home right now,
but if you can wait
I can take up a message all about your beef
And have him check it over and maybe see about relief
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread without delay
Daemon, said Peter, that's about the tallest order
I ever did hear
I ain't sure I can help you, he said pickin' his ear
'cause it's written that in practice your loss is your gain
And sweet forever after, but what was that again?
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread without delay
Because our granaries are all empty
There's not enough to go around
And our cabbage crops have not yielded substitute
And there hasn't been an abundance
Of alternatives offhand lately
And our miners are striking these happy bourgeois days
And while you're at it how about gettin' him
To rearrange the code of equality at large
Of distribution of power of those who've been in charge
And if not would you please just record
That one Daemon Duncetan tendered his request
And retired at the Lord's grace into rest
Said Peter, this really is not in my line
I'm all into changin' water to wine
And I don't want to disappoint you and I wouldn't want
to be a drag
But what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away
Turn stone to bread or Yorkshire pudding
Turn stone to bread without delay
To help us get through to those better days
'cause we've been united and our colour is true
And we really mean business and could do it with you
Oh yes, said Holy Peter, standing by the pearly gate
I ain't sure that the Master's home right now,
but if you can wait
I can take up a message all about your beef
And have him check it over and maybe see about relief
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread without delay
Daemon, said Peter, that's about the tallest order
I ever did hear
I ain't sure I can help you, he said pickin' his ear
'cause it's written that in practice your loss is your gain
And sweet forever after, but what was that again?
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread without delay
Because our granaries are all empty
There's not enough to go around
And our cabbage crops have not yielded substitute
And there hasn't been an abundance
Of alternatives offhand lately
And our miners are striking these happy bourgeois days
And while you're at it how about gettin' him
To rearrange the code of equality at large
Of distribution of power of those who've been in charge
And if not would you please just record
That one Daemon Duncetan tendered his request
And retired at the Lord's grace into rest
Said Peter, this really is not in my line
I'm all into changin' water to wine
And I don't want to disappoint you and I wouldn't want
to be a drag
But what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away
Turn stone to bread or Yorkshire pudding
Turn stone to bread without delay
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Daemon Duncetan's Request Lyrics as written by Jim Pembroke
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