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.
[Chorus]
"Huh, huh, huh, now what was I to do?
She's crying over me, and she was feeling blue," I said
"Huh, huh, huh, now what was I to do?
She's crying over me, and she was feeling blue," I said
"Huh, huh, huh, now what was I to do?
She's crying over me, and she was feeling blue," I said
"Huh, huh, huh, now what was I to do?
She's crying over me, and she was feeling blue," I said
"Huh, huh, huh, now what was I to do?
She's crying over me, and she was feeling blue," I said
I was walking down the street, just a minding my biz
I saw this young lady, the ultimate
She had a pair of jugs that was so fine
Then I took a look at that behind
Thirty-six-twenty-four-thirty-six; I looked to her, and I said "I need a fix."
I asked her the same blahzay, blahzay
Her name, where she live, and how much she weigh
I got her digits and gave her my one-eight hundred beeper number
You can leave a message under the name of Rhumba
I know you're bugging off, then I will be too
But every time she be walking, she turns the heads of the crew
Word is bond; I wouldn't be messing
With this girl if I knew she was an adolescent
To all the guys over twenty-one; here's the news:
It's the hip-hop version of the Young Girl Bluez
[Chorus]
As the story goes on, I get a little deeper
I got a strange message on my one-eight hundred beeper
Call me loony, crazy, psychotic, or dumb
But I got a good message from a girl named Rum
Come and get me from Mickey D's at eight
That's where I work after school; pick me up for a date
I was so excited that she called my pager
But never thought to ask if she was a teenager
She mentioned going to school, but I didn't think it was high
If you saw what I saw, then you know why
You wouldn't believe or even think of
A bird like that could be a dove
I picked her up in my Lexus coupe
Only God knows what I'm doing is a goof
Am I robbing a cradle? I'm very confused
I'm stuck in the middle of the Young Girl Bluez
[Chorus]
Now I was seeing her for about half a year
Everything was fine and dandy without shedding a tear
Age ain't nothing but a number; that's what Chi-Ali said
Okay, then why don't you get that through the judge's head?
Proceeding along, I must have to say
It was coming very close to her birthday
I asked "What do you want?"
She said "A pair of earrings."
I never knew what an avalanche the future brings
Her birthday came, and she gave a party
I arrive kind of late to the place to be
People was excited for seeing my face
If my mother ever knew, I would be a disgrace
"How old are you now?" to Rhumba-reen
I was in shock when they screamed "Sixteen!"
I felt like falling apart when I heard the news
This is the never-ending saga of the Young Girl Bluez!
[Chorus]
"Huh, huh, huh, now what was I to do?
She's crying over me, and she was feeling blue," I said
"Huh, huh, huh, now what was I to do?
She's crying over me, and she was feeling blue," I said
"Huh, huh, huh, now what was I to do?
She's crying over me, and she was feeling blue," I said
"Huh, huh, huh, now what was I to do?
She's crying over me, and she was feeling blue," I said
"Huh, huh, huh, now what was I to do?
She's crying over me, and she was feeling blue," I said
I was walking down the street, just a minding my biz
I saw this young lady, the ultimate
She had a pair of jugs that was so fine
Then I took a look at that behind
Thirty-six-twenty-four-thirty-six; I looked to her, and I said "I need a fix."
I asked her the same blahzay, blahzay
Her name, where she live, and how much she weigh
I got her digits and gave her my one-eight hundred beeper number
You can leave a message under the name of Rhumba
I know you're bugging off, then I will be too
But every time she be walking, she turns the heads of the crew
Word is bond; I wouldn't be messing
With this girl if I knew she was an adolescent
To all the guys over twenty-one; here's the news:
It's the hip-hop version of the Young Girl Bluez
[Chorus]
As the story goes on, I get a little deeper
I got a strange message on my one-eight hundred beeper
Call me loony, crazy, psychotic, or dumb
But I got a good message from a girl named Rum
Come and get me from Mickey D's at eight
That's where I work after school; pick me up for a date
I was so excited that she called my pager
But never thought to ask if she was a teenager
She mentioned going to school, but I didn't think it was high
If you saw what I saw, then you know why
You wouldn't believe or even think of
A bird like that could be a dove
I picked her up in my Lexus coupe
Only God knows what I'm doing is a goof
Am I robbing a cradle? I'm very confused
I'm stuck in the middle of the Young Girl Bluez
[Chorus]
Now I was seeing her for about half a year
Everything was fine and dandy without shedding a tear
Age ain't nothing but a number; that's what Chi-Ali said
Okay, then why don't you get that through the judge's head?
Proceeding along, I must have to say
It was coming very close to her birthday
I asked "What do you want?"
She said "A pair of earrings."
I never knew what an avalanche the future brings
Her birthday came, and she gave a party
I arrive kind of late to the place to be
People was excited for seeing my face
If my mother ever knew, I would be a disgrace
"How old are you now?" to Rhumba-reen
I was in shock when they screamed "Sixteen!"
I felt like falling apart when I heard the news
This is the never-ending saga of the Young Girl Bluez!
[Chorus]
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