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.
1993, Paris-Brooklyn
La puissance du son
What
It's the good, the bad
Le bien, le mal
The good, the bad
Le bien, le mal
Il était vraisemblable que tous les faux semblants
De la farce humanitaire aboutiraient au néant
C'est une boule à facettes comme dans les discothèques
Ca reflète à la lumière et sans elle, ffft! Du vent
J'aime les images fortes car je suis comme toi
Le poids des mots et le choc des photos
Ay yo, it's time to get up
Time to change the world, 'cause I'm fed up
We're gonna expose the wrong that's been going on
There's people dying in the streets still
In every city, lots of kids they be ill
I live in Brooklyn, got boys all over been
Around the world and you know that I know
The good, the bad
Le bien, le mal
The good, the bad
Le bien, le mal
L'homme qui prend le microphone se nomme Solaar
Maître de la rime urbaine accompagné des comparses et de Gangstarr
A Paris en France comme dans la Rome antique
Imite le maître, malgré le mythe comme Spartacus (limitait le mec)
Qui millimètre après millimètre check l'intellect à des kilomètres
It's your turn, Guru
Crazy madness, it's all I see out my window
It doesn't matter who's the president, yo
I hate to tell ya, but slavery is still in effect
Haven't you checked, us black folks create for ya I make a bet, if you
Don't let the truth out huh
Evil will rule without a doubt and it's
The good, the bad
Le bien, le mal
The good, the bad
Le bien, le mal
Solaar
C'est le monde des affaires, OPA sur la misère
Le réel me nargue, tralalalalère
L'air de rien je doute de l'existance des Dieux
De l'existance du mieux dans un lieu plus pieux
Alors je prends de l'avance, en prenant du recul
Car prendre du recul c'est prendre de l'élan
I come in peace, but sucka's always trying to front, so
I gotta let 'em know, gotta let 'em know
This ain't no game, punk, 'cause you could wind up dead
With bullets to the head from the posse's lead
I'm like your mentor, and this is for your benefit
So hear the noise, 'cause the rude boys ain't havin' it
It's
The good, the bad
Le bien, le mal
The good, the bad
Le bien, le mal
En prophète de la fête, je suis contre ceux qui fêtent
La défaite de la fête, alors faites attention
Cette recette intercepte les adeptes trouble-fête
Et le son, domine la situation
Le bien et le mal, situation critique
Problème politique, éthique et techniques, OK man, tout s'explique
Yeah, my man MC Solaar in the house
I'm known as the Guru, you know that
I got the whole posse: Jimmy James, Mikey Moos-Moos, Louche, Blackjack
The Mack, The Ramses, Soon-E MC, Menelik, Bambi Cruz, Planet Mars
Strike, Kéry James, Boom Bass, Zdar, Démocrates D
And their whole entire crew
You know what I'm sayin'? Taking no shorts in 1993
Peace, it's the good and the bad, and I'm out
La puissance du son
What
It's the good, the bad
Le bien, le mal
The good, the bad
Le bien, le mal
Il était vraisemblable que tous les faux semblants
De la farce humanitaire aboutiraient au néant
C'est une boule à facettes comme dans les discothèques
Ca reflète à la lumière et sans elle, ffft! Du vent
J'aime les images fortes car je suis comme toi
Le poids des mots et le choc des photos
Ay yo, it's time to get up
Time to change the world, 'cause I'm fed up
We're gonna expose the wrong that's been going on
There's people dying in the streets still
In every city, lots of kids they be ill
I live in Brooklyn, got boys all over been
Around the world and you know that I know
The good, the bad
Le bien, le mal
The good, the bad
Le bien, le mal
L'homme qui prend le microphone se nomme Solaar
Maître de la rime urbaine accompagné des comparses et de Gangstarr
A Paris en France comme dans la Rome antique
Imite le maître, malgré le mythe comme Spartacus (limitait le mec)
Qui millimètre après millimètre check l'intellect à des kilomètres
It's your turn, Guru
Crazy madness, it's all I see out my window
It doesn't matter who's the president, yo
I hate to tell ya, but slavery is still in effect
Haven't you checked, us black folks create for ya I make a bet, if you
Don't let the truth out huh
Evil will rule without a doubt and it's
The good, the bad
Le bien, le mal
The good, the bad
Le bien, le mal
Solaar
C'est le monde des affaires, OPA sur la misère
Le réel me nargue, tralalalalère
L'air de rien je doute de l'existance des Dieux
De l'existance du mieux dans un lieu plus pieux
Alors je prends de l'avance, en prenant du recul
Car prendre du recul c'est prendre de l'élan
I come in peace, but sucka's always trying to front, so
I gotta let 'em know, gotta let 'em know
This ain't no game, punk, 'cause you could wind up dead
With bullets to the head from the posse's lead
I'm like your mentor, and this is for your benefit
So hear the noise, 'cause the rude boys ain't havin' it
It's
The good, the bad
Le bien, le mal
The good, the bad
Le bien, le mal
En prophète de la fête, je suis contre ceux qui fêtent
La défaite de la fête, alors faites attention
Cette recette intercepte les adeptes trouble-fête
Et le son, domine la situation
Le bien et le mal, situation critique
Problème politique, éthique et techniques, OK man, tout s'explique
Yeah, my man MC Solaar in the house
I'm known as the Guru, you know that
I got the whole posse: Jimmy James, Mikey Moos-Moos, Louche, Blackjack
The Mack, The Ramses, Soon-E MC, Menelik, Bambi Cruz, Planet Mars
Strike, Kéry James, Boom Bass, Zdar, Démocrates D
And their whole entire crew
You know what I'm sayin'? Taking no shorts in 1993
Peace, it's the good and the bad, and I'm out
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Le Bien, Le Mal Lyrics as written by Christophe Roger Viguier Keith Elam
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