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.
Where the mothers of sonsnever cease their weeping
Where the fathers of faith in the ground lie sleeping
Where the seeds of time have a whirlwind reaping
Oh
Jerusalem is.
Where the cobblestones
Wet with the blood of ages
Hear the echo of wheels turning hist'ry's pages -
Where the cries of fools stilled the words of sages
Oh
Jerusalem is.
'Neath an olive tree branch anyone can listen
To the song of songs as the green leaves glisten.
Then a summer rain falls and the raindrops christen
What Jerusalem is.
And the river runs on and the world keeps turning
And the water's cold
Tho the sands are burning
And the mountains know while we still are learning
What Jerusalem is.
Oh
When will tomorrow's sons
Tomorrow's daughters
Never taste of the bread cast upon the waters
And put down the sword that performed the slaughters
Where Jerusalem is ?
Where the cobblestones
Wet with the blood of ages
Hear the echo of wheels turning hist'ry's pages -
Where the cries of fools stilled the words of sages
Oh
Jerusalem is.
And the river
Oh
The river runs and the world keeps turning
And the water's cold
Tho the sands are burning
And the mountains know while we still are learning
What Jerusalem is.
And the river
Oh
The river runs and the world keeps turning.
Where the fathers of faith in the ground lie sleeping
Where the seeds of time have a whirlwind reaping
Oh
Jerusalem is.
Where the cobblestones
Wet with the blood of ages
Hear the echo of wheels turning hist'ry's pages -
Where the cries of fools stilled the words of sages
Oh
Jerusalem is.
'Neath an olive tree branch anyone can listen
To the song of songs as the green leaves glisten.
Then a summer rain falls and the raindrops christen
What Jerusalem is.
And the river runs on and the world keeps turning
And the water's cold
Tho the sands are burning
And the mountains know while we still are learning
What Jerusalem is.
Oh
When will tomorrow's sons
Tomorrow's daughters
Never taste of the bread cast upon the waters
And put down the sword that performed the slaughters
Where Jerusalem is ?
Where the cobblestones
Wet with the blood of ages
Hear the echo of wheels turning hist'ry's pages -
Where the cries of fools stilled the words of sages
Oh
Jerusalem is.
And the river
Oh
The river runs and the world keeps turning
And the water's cold
Tho the sands are burning
And the mountains know while we still are learning
What Jerusalem is.
And the river
Oh
The river runs and the world keeps turning.
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Jerusalem Lyrics as written by Herb Alpert
Lyrics © SPIRIT MUSIC GROUP, Universal Music Publishing Group
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