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.
Oh, holy Moses and sweet Madonna
Where's that simple human kindness
My story closes and I'm a goner
Where's the truth in all this blindness
Come so far to find
There's still so long to go
Oh, let it all hang down
Do-do-do do-do-do
Let's just have a touch of that brain there
Do-do-do do-do-do
This rat race pace ain't gonna go nowhere
And I'll shout it and I'll scream it
Where's that simple human kindness
Guided missiles and jungle warfare
Disabled babies with no mothers
Do-do-do do-do-do
Let's just have a touch of that brain there
Do-do-do do-do-do
This rat race pace ain't gonna go nowhere
Get yer hair cut, get crew cut, get a suit
Get a white shirt, get a job, be respectable
Get a good shave, get a shoe line, manicure
Elocution lessons and be acceptable
"Be a success, life and soul of the party,
be educated and popular, body building
course and you can kick the sand right
back in their faces!"
Get yer hair cut, get crew cut, get a suit
Get a white shirt, get a job, be respectable
Get a good shave, get a shoe line, manicure
Elocution lessons and be acceptable
"Be a success, play guitar, be happy, like
everybody and everybody will like you!
Kick the sand right back in their faces!"
Oh, holy Moses and sweet Madonna
Where's that simple human kindness
My story closes and I'm a goner
Where's the truth in all this blindness
Where's that simple human kindness? Won't you tell me, brother?
Where's that simple human kindness
My story closes and I'm a goner
Where's the truth in all this blindness
Come so far to find
There's still so long to go
Oh, let it all hang down
Do-do-do do-do-do
Let's just have a touch of that brain there
Do-do-do do-do-do
This rat race pace ain't gonna go nowhere
And I'll shout it and I'll scream it
Where's that simple human kindness
Guided missiles and jungle warfare
Disabled babies with no mothers
Do-do-do do-do-do
Let's just have a touch of that brain there
Do-do-do do-do-do
This rat race pace ain't gonna go nowhere
Get yer hair cut, get crew cut, get a suit
Get a white shirt, get a job, be respectable
Get a good shave, get a shoe line, manicure
Elocution lessons and be acceptable
"Be a success, life and soul of the party,
be educated and popular, body building
course and you can kick the sand right
back in their faces!"
Get yer hair cut, get crew cut, get a suit
Get a white shirt, get a job, be respectable
Get a good shave, get a shoe line, manicure
Elocution lessons and be acceptable
"Be a success, play guitar, be happy, like
everybody and everybody will like you!
Kick the sand right back in their faces!"
Oh, holy Moses and sweet Madonna
Where's that simple human kindness
My story closes and I'm a goner
Where's the truth in all this blindness
Where's that simple human kindness? Won't you tell me, brother?
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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