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.
Well I’m sore. Everything we do is unresolved.
So I’m holding my breath, and I’m making good friends with the pull-out couch.
Till I can’t sleep at all and survey says we draw oh, how embarrassing.
Los Angeles is waking up, as I drain this bottle into a cup
I figure, why try to fight it if I can’t seem to help it? (Oh)
Tomorrow I’ll be payin' double for tonight, [alright (x3)].
Yeah, just because it works, honey, that don’t make it right.
If you, if you ever think back what's the first thing on your mind:
Well am I horrible still, after all of these years?
The clocks gotta turn wrapped around these years (yeah honey) I can’t help but feel that:
If I could re-track that omnipotence I lacked.
I’d tell you less of what you want to hear, and more of what you wish you never knew.
Tomorrow I’ll be payin' double for tonight, [alright (x3)]
Yeah, just because it works, honey, that don’t make it right.
that don’t make it right.
Am I horrible still, after all of these years? (x2)
I’ve got my head wrapped around my heels (yeah honey) and I can’t help but feel
Tomorrow I’ll be payin' double for tonight, alright.
And just because it works, honey, that don’t make it right.
Tomorrow I’ll be payin' double for tonight, [alright (x3)]
Yeah, just because it works (x3)
Honey, that don’t make it right.
So I’m holding my breath, and I’m making good friends with the pull-out couch.
Till I can’t sleep at all and survey says we draw oh, how embarrassing.
Los Angeles is waking up, as I drain this bottle into a cup
I figure, why try to fight it if I can’t seem to help it? (Oh)
Tomorrow I’ll be payin' double for tonight, [alright (x3)].
Yeah, just because it works, honey, that don’t make it right.
If you, if you ever think back what's the first thing on your mind:
Well am I horrible still, after all of these years?
The clocks gotta turn wrapped around these years (yeah honey) I can’t help but feel that:
If I could re-track that omnipotence I lacked.
I’d tell you less of what you want to hear, and more of what you wish you never knew.
Tomorrow I’ll be payin' double for tonight, [alright (x3)]
Yeah, just because it works, honey, that don’t make it right.
that don’t make it right.
Am I horrible still, after all of these years? (x2)
I’ve got my head wrapped around my heels (yeah honey) and I can’t help but feel
Tomorrow I’ll be payin' double for tonight, alright.
And just because it works, honey, that don’t make it right.
Tomorrow I’ll be payin' double for tonight, [alright (x3)]
Yeah, just because it works (x3)
Honey, that don’t make it right.
Lyrics submitted by LindsayReeseg, edited by hankwhite
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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Great version of a great song,
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