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.
Many men have crossed my way
Promising peace or my soul to save
But I already heard you
I have seen what they made with their freedom
But I, I have no need for your god
The shallow truth of your poisonous tongue
Brothers it’s time to make a stand
To reclaim our lives
Because all this steel can set us free
Rise my brothers we are blessed by steel
In my sword I trust
Arm yourselves the truth shall be revealed
In my sword I trust
Tyrants and cowards for metal you will kneel
In my sword I trust
Till justice and reason we’ll wield
In my sword I trust
The sword that shivers in my hand
Do you have the might
To eat the putrid flesh
To drink the blood of the true one to blame
The time of change is here
Avail your blade
Rise my brothers we are blessed by steel
In my sword I trust
Arm yourselves the truth shall be revealed
In my sword I trust
Tyrants and cowards for metal you will kneel
In my sword I trust
Till justice and reason we’ll wield
In my sword I trust
Leave your souls to your gods
Kneel, obey, follow their laws
Diseased and decayed, cherish their fate
This day I repay
Your love for fear come fate
Your love for fear come fate
Omen build me a fiery falcon
Pull your blade, a blazing shore
She’ll never wait and may make war
Rest my hands and come to pray
But my life shan’t go to waste
Grip the spirit that they turn on??
Upon the point, the point of our steel
Rise my brothers we are blessed by steel
In my sword I trust
Arm yourselves the truth shall be revealed
In my sword I trust
Tyrants and cowards for metal you will kneel
In my sword I trust
Till justice and reason we’ll wield
In my sword I trust
In my sword I trust
Promising peace or my soul to save
But I already heard you
I have seen what they made with their freedom
But I, I have no need for your god
The shallow truth of your poisonous tongue
Brothers it’s time to make a stand
To reclaim our lives
Because all this steel can set us free
Rise my brothers we are blessed by steel
In my sword I trust
Arm yourselves the truth shall be revealed
In my sword I trust
Tyrants and cowards for metal you will kneel
In my sword I trust
Till justice and reason we’ll wield
In my sword I trust
The sword that shivers in my hand
Do you have the might
To eat the putrid flesh
To drink the blood of the true one to blame
The time of change is here
Avail your blade
Rise my brothers we are blessed by steel
In my sword I trust
Arm yourselves the truth shall be revealed
In my sword I trust
Tyrants and cowards for metal you will kneel
In my sword I trust
Till justice and reason we’ll wield
In my sword I trust
Leave your souls to your gods
Kneel, obey, follow their laws
Diseased and decayed, cherish their fate
This day I repay
Your love for fear come fate
Your love for fear come fate
Omen build me a fiery falcon
Pull your blade, a blazing shore
She’ll never wait and may make war
Rest my hands and come to pray
But my life shan’t go to waste
Grip the spirit that they turn on??
Upon the point, the point of our steel
Rise my brothers we are blessed by steel
In my sword I trust
Arm yourselves the truth shall be revealed
In my sword I trust
Tyrants and cowards for metal you will kneel
In my sword I trust
Till justice and reason we’ll wield
In my sword I trust
In my sword I trust
Lyrics submitted by hophmel
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Fortnight
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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Great version of a great song,
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I believe this song is about vikings rejecting all the lies that religions have brought to their land and fighting instead of falling into the decay of apathy.
For me I take a more Christian meaning from it. In Ephesians 6 the Bible is described as the Sword of the Spirit, Christians are to take this up and fight against the lies that satan produces; Laziness, Pornography,Self-Righteousness ...etc. All these things are 'gods' that promise a freedom, but are in fact chains that lead to death (Diseased and decayed, cherish their fate).