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.
Mosquito armies are swarming my cabana
I gotta tell the manager
They must be wasted
From all my hatred and all that acid in my veins
Because I've got A.C.
But they still attack me
There's buzzing in my ears all night and day
And I can't fucking take it anymore
The roaches crawl out of the sewer and into my bed
And eat the lice right off my head
These flies are crazy
They carried off a baby
And they ate in on my loveseat
These bugs are such fragile things
But no matter how many I kill they're still winning
I try to hide
They won't stay outside
Is nothing sterile?
I can't fucking take it anymore
Ant nests are in my walls
And flea eggs are on the floor
I though I'd get so high
That all the bugs would cease to bug me
But that just made it worse
I close the windows and all the doors
The A.C. set to high cool
I light the bomb and lie down on my bed
Arms folded, one finger extended
I don't wanna use it
The bug bomb
It's poisonous to me
Who will it kill first?
It's like chemotherapy
I'm so glad I used it
They'll win in the end
But when the maggots come
They'll choke on my toxic ass
After all, how can't I hate something that eats me while I'm paralyzed
But I know what's going on
And feel every nibble on my dry encrusted eyeballs
Struggling only begins to make those nibbles feel like bandsaws
Now, mosquitoes are fluorescent blue
And riddled with diseases they don't have names for yet
Keep on taking those antibiotics
Things decompose faster here, I heard
Big bombs are best
Put nature to the test
Big bombs are best
Put nature to the test
With a bug bomb
But it's not good enough
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
Nature wants to kill you
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
Nature wants to kill you
Big bombs are best
Put nature to the test
With a bug bomb
Big bombs are best
Put nature to the test
With a bug bomb
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
Nature wants to kill you
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
Nature wants to die
I gotta tell the manager
They must be wasted
From all my hatred and all that acid in my veins
Because I've got A.C.
But they still attack me
There's buzzing in my ears all night and day
And I can't fucking take it anymore
The roaches crawl out of the sewer and into my bed
And eat the lice right off my head
These flies are crazy
They carried off a baby
And they ate in on my loveseat
These bugs are such fragile things
But no matter how many I kill they're still winning
I try to hide
They won't stay outside
Is nothing sterile?
I can't fucking take it anymore
Ant nests are in my walls
And flea eggs are on the floor
I though I'd get so high
That all the bugs would cease to bug me
But that just made it worse
I close the windows and all the doors
The A.C. set to high cool
I light the bomb and lie down on my bed
Arms folded, one finger extended
I don't wanna use it
The bug bomb
It's poisonous to me
Who will it kill first?
It's like chemotherapy
I'm so glad I used it
They'll win in the end
But when the maggots come
They'll choke on my toxic ass
After all, how can't I hate something that eats me while I'm paralyzed
But I know what's going on
And feel every nibble on my dry encrusted eyeballs
Struggling only begins to make those nibbles feel like bandsaws
Now, mosquitoes are fluorescent blue
And riddled with diseases they don't have names for yet
Keep on taking those antibiotics
Things decompose faster here, I heard
Big bombs are best
Put nature to the test
Big bombs are best
Put nature to the test
With a bug bomb
But it's not good enough
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
Nature wants to kill you
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
Nature wants to kill you
Big bombs are best
Put nature to the test
With a bug bomb
Big bombs are best
Put nature to the test
With a bug bomb
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
Nature wants to kill you
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
It's not good enough
Nature wants to die
Lyrics submitted by joelm
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