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.
Maybe it's bricks and mortar now
Whether or not they run it down
I don't want anything to shake that shape away
No one told us which way to come
Nobody mapped oblivion
So, I go growing roses in the disarray
Just like most
Falling head in
'Til my ghost fills the bed in
So lift up like a banner
Hold it up over me
If this war is never-ending
I'll take this love down with me
(Like a banner)
(Like a banner)
I don't need fate to give it time
It doesn't take pain to change your
Mind no weapon can sever the soul from me
Not the sorceress
Not the money
All my cleverness
All my cunning
So lift up like a banner
Hold it up over me
If this war is never-ending
I'll take this love down with me
(Like a banner)
(Like a banner)
It's around me, in my surroundings
It counts me, when it starts the counting
In the chaos, there is a standard
I'm carrying it like a banner
It's around me, in my surroundings
It counts me, when it starts the counting
In the chaos, there is a standard
I'm carrying it like a banner
So lift up like a banner (like a banner)
Hold it up over me (hold it over me)
if this war (if this war) is never-ending (is never-ending)
I'll take this love (I'll take this love) down with me
(Like a banner) like a banner
Hold it up (like a banner) over me
if this war like a banner) is never-ending like a banner)
I'll take this love like a banner) down with me
Whether or not they run it down
I don't want anything to shake that shape away
No one told us which way to come
Nobody mapped oblivion
So, I go growing roses in the disarray
Just like most
Falling head in
'Til my ghost fills the bed in
So lift up like a banner
Hold it up over me
If this war is never-ending
I'll take this love down with me
(Like a banner)
(Like a banner)
I don't need fate to give it time
It doesn't take pain to change your
Mind no weapon can sever the soul from me
Not the sorceress
Not the money
All my cleverness
All my cunning
So lift up like a banner
Hold it up over me
If this war is never-ending
I'll take this love down with me
(Like a banner)
(Like a banner)
It's around me, in my surroundings
It counts me, when it starts the counting
In the chaos, there is a standard
I'm carrying it like a banner
It's around me, in my surroundings
It counts me, when it starts the counting
In the chaos, there is a standard
I'm carrying it like a banner
So lift up like a banner (like a banner)
Hold it up over me (hold it over me)
if this war (if this war) is never-ending (is never-ending)
I'll take this love (I'll take this love) down with me
(Like a banner) like a banner
Hold it up (like a banner) over me
if this war like a banner) is never-ending like a banner)
I'll take this love like a banner) down with me
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Fortnight
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There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
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