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 tied your shoes while you
Sat and watched the rain
Hands folded across your lap and the dull
Look of peace across your face
Mom down the hall, Bible pressed to her chest
When she swore the Devil hides in everything
And her room was the only safe haven left
She watched us grow through window panes
Something in the middle
Something in the middle
Something in the middle
Something's in the way
You had held my hand while the
Wind whistled nocturnes in the dark
Something in the middle
Something in the middle
Something in the middle
Something's in the way
Never knew what it meant to be whole and free
Something in the middle
Something in the middle
Something in the middle
Something's in the way
Neither one of them mocks if we steer
From paths only they can see
But sink or swim is all they'd say
Your hand rode the wind out
The window of the train
We slept in our seats with our
Knees curled beneath our dirty chins
Dad gripped the bags like they might fly away
And the scenery beyond the glass was liquid
We sat and soaked it in
I felt your breath along the way
I'd hold your hand when the sky fell apart
And you would hold my hand if you
Felt me slipping back into the dark
I can't tell from the ground
If the sky will fall
I can't tell from the sky if
There's anybody down there at all
It's empty inns and empty plates
Sat and watched the rain
Hands folded across your lap and the dull
Look of peace across your face
Mom down the hall, Bible pressed to her chest
When she swore the Devil hides in everything
And her room was the only safe haven left
She watched us grow through window panes
Something in the middle
Something in the middle
Something in the middle
Something's in the way
You had held my hand while the
Wind whistled nocturnes in the dark
Something in the middle
Something in the middle
Something in the middle
Something's in the way
Never knew what it meant to be whole and free
Something in the middle
Something in the middle
Something in the middle
Something's in the way
Neither one of them mocks if we steer
From paths only they can see
But sink or swim is all they'd say
Your hand rode the wind out
The window of the train
We slept in our seats with our
Knees curled beneath our dirty chins
Dad gripped the bags like they might fly away
And the scenery beyond the glass was liquid
We sat and soaked it in
I felt your breath along the way
I'd hold your hand when the sky fell apart
And you would hold my hand if you
Felt me slipping back into the dark
I can't tell from the ground
If the sky will fall
I can't tell from the sky if
There's anybody down there at all
It's empty inns and empty plates
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I think this is "and the dull work of peace across your face".