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.
I don't like cities
But I like New York
The famous places to visit are so many
Other places
Make me feel like a dork
I told my grandpa I wouldn't miss on any
Los Angeles is for
People who sleep
Got to see the whole town right from Yonkers on down to the Bay
Paris and London
Oh baby, you can keep
Baby you can keep
Baby you can keep
Other cities always make me mad
Other places always make me sad
No other city ever made me glad
Except New York, New York
It's a wonderful town (New York)
I love New York
I love New York (New York, New York)
I love New York (New York, New York)
If you don't like my attitude
Then you can get lost
(Manhattan women) are dressed in silk and satin
(Just go to Texas) isn't that where they golf?
(There's just one thing that's) important in Manhattan
New York is not for little wussies who scream
Ah!
Pick up a date
Maybe seven or eight
Paris and London
Oh baby, you can keep
Baby you can keep
Baby you can keep
Other cities always make me mad (make me mad)
Other places always make me sad (make me sad)
No other city ever made me glad
Except New York, New York
It's a wonderful town (New York)
I love New York
I love New York (New York, New York)
I love New York (New York, New York)
We've sailed the seas
And we've been the world over
Made the Mandalay
We've seen the Sphinx
And we've seen the Cliffs of Dover
And we can safely say
New York
Other cities always make me mad (Oh, oh-oh)
Other places always make me sad (New York)
No other city ever made me glad except New York, New York
It's a wonderful town (New York)
I love New York
I love New York (New York, New York)
I love New York (New York now, New York now)
I love New York
(New York, New York)
New York now
New York, New York
But I like New York
The famous places to visit are so many
Other places
Make me feel like a dork
I told my grandpa I wouldn't miss on any
Los Angeles is for
People who sleep
Got to see the whole town right from Yonkers on down to the Bay
Paris and London
Oh baby, you can keep
Baby you can keep
Baby you can keep
Other cities always make me mad
Other places always make me sad
No other city ever made me glad
Except New York, New York
It's a wonderful town (New York)
I love New York
I love New York (New York, New York)
I love New York (New York, New York)
If you don't like my attitude
Then you can get lost
(Manhattan women) are dressed in silk and satin
(Just go to Texas) isn't that where they golf?
(There's just one thing that's) important in Manhattan
New York is not for little wussies who scream
Ah!
Pick up a date
Maybe seven or eight
Paris and London
Oh baby, you can keep
Baby you can keep
Baby you can keep
Other cities always make me mad (make me mad)
Other places always make me sad (make me sad)
No other city ever made me glad
Except New York, New York
It's a wonderful town (New York)
I love New York
I love New York (New York, New York)
I love New York (New York, New York)
We've sailed the seas
And we've been the world over
Made the Mandalay
We've seen the Sphinx
And we've seen the Cliffs of Dover
And we can safely say
New York
Other cities always make me mad (Oh, oh-oh)
Other places always make me sad (New York)
No other city ever made me glad except New York, New York
It's a wonderful town (New York)
I love New York
I love New York (New York, New York)
I love New York (New York now, New York now)
I love New York
(New York, New York)
New York now
New York, New York
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Great version of a great song,
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