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.
(November 15th, 2011)
I wrote this song for you, yeah
She said I'm in love
Girl I don't believe it
Till I see it with my own brown eyes
I know time flies
But just a couple months ago we were in foreign cities
Drinking bottles of tequila and yesterday she said I'm in love
And she said we're born the same day
She called me up to ask me if I think that's kind of strange
I said maybe you like Gemini's or maybe it's just fate
And then she called me back just to tell me not to wait for her
But I'm waiting for her anyway
Like the last train in the station
A bad doctor, got no patients
I've been hanging in the basement
Playing hangman between takes, so babe
You better be watching the things that you're saying
Sometimes I get lonely and then I get wasted
That shit that you tell me
I have to erase it
So spare me the details
Girl you know I think you are swell
But why you gotta put me through hell?
Don't say you're in love, say you're in love, say you're in love
Cause I'm not giving up, I'm not giving up, I'm not giving up
I know right now you regret me, but you could never forget me
I'm buried somewhere deep inside you're mind
I know right now you regret me, but you could never forget me
I'm buried somewhere deep inside you're mind
Sing it now.
So you say you're in love
And it fits like a glove
They tried to pull that shit with OJ Simpson
But they never had enough evidence
But I'm different cause I kept ever receipt
Doing taxes every night instead of going to sleep
Why you giving your heart away?
I'm gonna call you Sandy Holloway
Thought you were a Bulls fan, Michael Jordan
Call me when you're new man gets too boring
That didn't seem to take long
She called me up and I wrote this song
Figured if I get it out soon enough
I could go all in and call your bluff
What's he got that I don't have
I don't smoke weed, I don't buy bags
I don't go to clubs like that no more
I got a pull up bar on my bedroom door
So I always look good for you, even if I put on a few
You really got something to prove, but I've got nothing left to prove
Cause I lost you in 2010
But I'm trying not to lose you again
Don't say you're in love, say you're in love, say you're in love
Cause I'm not giving up, I'm not giving up, I'm not giving up
I know right now you regret me, but you could never forget me
I'm buried somewhere deep inside you're mind
I know right now you regret me, but you could never forget me
I'm buried somewhere deep inside you're mind
Sing it now
I know you can't forget me
I'm not just you're average Joe
And someone's going to hate me tonight
I'll have some enemies after this one, yeah
But I don't mind.
I wrote this song for you, yeah
She said I'm in love
Girl I don't believe it
Till I see it with my own brown eyes
I know time flies
But just a couple months ago we were in foreign cities
Drinking bottles of tequila and yesterday she said I'm in love
And she said we're born the same day
She called me up to ask me if I think that's kind of strange
I said maybe you like Gemini's or maybe it's just fate
And then she called me back just to tell me not to wait for her
But I'm waiting for her anyway
Like the last train in the station
A bad doctor, got no patients
I've been hanging in the basement
Playing hangman between takes, so babe
You better be watching the things that you're saying
Sometimes I get lonely and then I get wasted
That shit that you tell me
I have to erase it
So spare me the details
Girl you know I think you are swell
But why you gotta put me through hell?
Don't say you're in love, say you're in love, say you're in love
Cause I'm not giving up, I'm not giving up, I'm not giving up
I know right now you regret me, but you could never forget me
I'm buried somewhere deep inside you're mind
I know right now you regret me, but you could never forget me
I'm buried somewhere deep inside you're mind
Sing it now.
So you say you're in love
And it fits like a glove
They tried to pull that shit with OJ Simpson
But they never had enough evidence
But I'm different cause I kept ever receipt
Doing taxes every night instead of going to sleep
Why you giving your heart away?
I'm gonna call you Sandy Holloway
Thought you were a Bulls fan, Michael Jordan
Call me when you're new man gets too boring
That didn't seem to take long
She called me up and I wrote this song
Figured if I get it out soon enough
I could go all in and call your bluff
What's he got that I don't have
I don't smoke weed, I don't buy bags
I don't go to clubs like that no more
I got a pull up bar on my bedroom door
So I always look good for you, even if I put on a few
You really got something to prove, but I've got nothing left to prove
Cause I lost you in 2010
But I'm trying not to lose you again
Don't say you're in love, say you're in love, say you're in love
Cause I'm not giving up, I'm not giving up, I'm not giving up
I know right now you regret me, but you could never forget me
I'm buried somewhere deep inside you're mind
I know right now you regret me, but you could never forget me
I'm buried somewhere deep inside you're mind
Sing it now
I know you can't forget me
I'm not just you're average Joe
And someone's going to hate me tonight
I'll have some enemies after this one, yeah
But I don't mind.
Lyrics submitted by mkd715
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