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.
[Verse 1: Mackin]
I started so high and now I'm so low
I can't believe that I've just gone and let you go
What was I thinking? Why did I go slow?
I will always love you I want you to know
I'm sitting down here in the cold on the floor
Waiting for an answer on my S4
Sitting on the chair watching our favourite show
Without you it's just not the same anymore
We were together all the time like my shadow
I hope you think of me when we're on the radio
I always made the peace and you always made the war
Sometimes I know we were out of control
I blame myself I just tried to put on a show
I know I wasn't fun and sometimes I was a bore
You messed up and now I'm gonna show you the door
Pass me a Jager, actually just make it four
[Hook: Compound]
I've lost you and there's no turning back now
Help me get through this, I can't, it hurts
Put me in a coma and please end the misery
How do you move on when your heart is shattered?
Give me closure baby cause I've lost you
I wish you the best life without me
You probably wouldn't care if I passed away
But I would, I've lost you and I'm so so sorry uh
[Verse 2: Compound]
Whoa, just let me take a fucking step backwards
Let me understand what the fuck just happened
I've lost you and I never even had this planned
I can't recall me ever thinking this would happen
You lied so many times and I guess I did
My lies were the truth that you fucking think
I told you that I cheated I guess it was the drink
I never cheated and I said some horrible things
Unforgiveable, unexplainable and most of all
Most of it was just all deep down lies
All ties are broken now you're out with other guys
I knew it was gonna come, deep down eventually
It's what you always wanted, I don't know what I was
I guess I didn't exist, this never hurt you
What if I died? Would you have even cried?
Would you have even wished for me fucking back uh?
[Hook: Compound]
I've lost you and there's no turning back now
Help me get through this, I can't, it hurts
Put me in a coma and please end the misery
How do you move on when your heart is shattered?
Give me closure baby cause I've lost you
I wish you the best life without me
You probably wouldn't care if I passed away
But I would, I've lost you and I'm so so sorry uh
[Verse 3: Mackin]
I see you sitting there drinking at the bar
I know you won't speak so I'm gonna stay afar
You know I'm a fighter just like COD
I try and stay strong but look I just can't
I don't why, I just have to try
Just have to try, and just not cry
Not cry, cause I'm a man down deep inside
You try and come back so denied
Verse 3 - Compound
I died inside when you told you met a guy
I guess I tried but I just gotta say bye
It hurts so fucking much I can't even speak
Moving to America but feeling so damn weak
I'll smile again in time, I just gotta climb
I changed you and you also fucking changed me
You can have your old life back now I'm gone
But while I'm gone, listen to this when I'm gone
[Hook: Compound]
I've lost you and there's no turning back now
Help me get through this, I can't, it hurts
Put me in a coma and please end the misery
How do you move on when your heart is shattered?
Give me closure baby cause I've lost you
I wish you the best life without me
You probably wouldn't care if I passed away
But I would, I've lost you and I'm so so sorry uh
I started so high and now I'm so low
I can't believe that I've just gone and let you go
What was I thinking? Why did I go slow?
I will always love you I want you to know
I'm sitting down here in the cold on the floor
Waiting for an answer on my S4
Sitting on the chair watching our favourite show
Without you it's just not the same anymore
We were together all the time like my shadow
I hope you think of me when we're on the radio
I always made the peace and you always made the war
Sometimes I know we were out of control
I blame myself I just tried to put on a show
I know I wasn't fun and sometimes I was a bore
You messed up and now I'm gonna show you the door
Pass me a Jager, actually just make it four
[Hook: Compound]
I've lost you and there's no turning back now
Help me get through this, I can't, it hurts
Put me in a coma and please end the misery
How do you move on when your heart is shattered?
Give me closure baby cause I've lost you
I wish you the best life without me
You probably wouldn't care if I passed away
But I would, I've lost you and I'm so so sorry uh
[Verse 2: Compound]
Whoa, just let me take a fucking step backwards
Let me understand what the fuck just happened
I've lost you and I never even had this planned
I can't recall me ever thinking this would happen
You lied so many times and I guess I did
My lies were the truth that you fucking think
I told you that I cheated I guess it was the drink
I never cheated and I said some horrible things
Unforgiveable, unexplainable and most of all
Most of it was just all deep down lies
All ties are broken now you're out with other guys
I knew it was gonna come, deep down eventually
It's what you always wanted, I don't know what I was
I guess I didn't exist, this never hurt you
What if I died? Would you have even cried?
Would you have even wished for me fucking back uh?
[Hook: Compound]
I've lost you and there's no turning back now
Help me get through this, I can't, it hurts
Put me in a coma and please end the misery
How do you move on when your heart is shattered?
Give me closure baby cause I've lost you
I wish you the best life without me
You probably wouldn't care if I passed away
But I would, I've lost you and I'm so so sorry uh
[Verse 3: Mackin]
I see you sitting there drinking at the bar
I know you won't speak so I'm gonna stay afar
You know I'm a fighter just like COD
I try and stay strong but look I just can't
I don't why, I just have to try
Just have to try, and just not cry
Not cry, cause I'm a man down deep inside
You try and come back so denied
Verse 3 - Compound
I died inside when you told you met a guy
I guess I tried but I just gotta say bye
It hurts so fucking much I can't even speak
Moving to America but feeling so damn weak
I'll smile again in time, I just gotta climb
I changed you and you also fucking changed me
You can have your old life back now I'm gone
But while I'm gone, listen to this when I'm gone
[Hook: Compound]
I've lost you and there's no turning back now
Help me get through this, I can't, it hurts
Put me in a coma and please end the misery
How do you move on when your heart is shattered?
Give me closure baby cause I've lost you
I wish you the best life without me
You probably wouldn't care if I passed away
But I would, I've lost you and I'm so so sorry uh
Lyrics submitted by jordantaylormf
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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