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.
Funny how it goes with a moment so near
In a little while you can almost feel your fear
Meet me before time in a moment so close
Find another way to open your heart to me
Every now and then there's a moment so close
I can see the future, telescope in front of me
Isn't it the way for a moment so near
To be further from the past and how we want to be
Way up high
The little folks zooming by
Ask them why
Or if they know the way we're goin'
Underneath the skin, in a moment so close
A little particles running 'round inside of me
Smaller than it goes, is a moment so near
More than I comprehendin' is a part of me
Started withe the light shinin' down from the sun
In a moment it would travel across the universe
Couldn't you believe in a moment so real
More than words could say
And more than eyes could see you there
The ancient ways we turn
Descendants from the sky
De-act them where the spilled
To late to wonder why
Way up high
We're looking for a northern light
Hopin' that the evenin' star
Could point the way to where we're goin'
So close
So near
Where is
The faith
A moment close at hand
Whose hand will shake the ground
The answers all to clear
The questions to be found
Way up high
The little folks zooming by
Don't ask why
As if they know the way we're goin'
The dark, to fly
To take, the sky
To clear, so high
To late, don't try
So close, so near
It is, the fear
Funny how it goes with a moment so near
In a little while you can almost feel your fear
Meet me before time in a moment so close
Find another way to open your heart to me
In a little while you can almost feel your fear
Meet me before time in a moment so close
Find another way to open your heart to me
Every now and then there's a moment so close
I can see the future, telescope in front of me
Isn't it the way for a moment so near
To be further from the past and how we want to be
Way up high
The little folks zooming by
Ask them why
Or if they know the way we're goin'
Underneath the skin, in a moment so close
A little particles running 'round inside of me
Smaller than it goes, is a moment so near
More than I comprehendin' is a part of me
Started withe the light shinin' down from the sun
In a moment it would travel across the universe
Couldn't you believe in a moment so real
More than words could say
And more than eyes could see you there
The ancient ways we turn
Descendants from the sky
De-act them where the spilled
To late to wonder why
Way up high
We're looking for a northern light
Hopin' that the evenin' star
Could point the way to where we're goin'
So close
So near
Where is
The faith
A moment close at hand
Whose hand will shake the ground
The answers all to clear
The questions to be found
Way up high
The little folks zooming by
Don't ask why
As if they know the way we're goin'
The dark, to fly
To take, the sky
To clear, so high
To late, don't try
So close, so near
It is, the fear
Funny how it goes with a moment so near
In a little while you can almost feel your fear
Meet me before time in a moment so close
Find another way to open your heart to me
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A Moment So Close Lyrics as written by Bela Fleck
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