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.
Love will abide, take things in stride
Sounds like good advice but there's no one at my side
But time washes clean love's wounds unseen
But that's what someone told me but I don't know what it means
'Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
And I think I'm gonna love you for a long long time
Caught in my fears
And I'm sittin here blinking back the tears
I can't say it was you that hurt me when you never let me near
But i, I never drew one response from you
No,no , no, not once
All the while you fell all over girls you never knew
Oh but I've, I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
Oh I know I'm gonna love you
For a long long time
Wait for the day
'Cause they tell me that it will go away
Knowing that you warned me of the price I'd have to pay
Ooh life is full of flaws
Sometimes I wonder who knows the cause?
I'm living in the memory of a love that never was
Oh but I'm I'm doing everything I know
'cause I want to make you mine
And I think I'm gonna love you for a long long time
Oh I'm I'm doing everything I know
'cause I want to make you mine
And I think I'm gonna love you for a long long time
I think I'm gonna love you
Yes I know I'm gonna love you
And it will be for a long time
Sounds like good advice but there's no one at my side
But time washes clean love's wounds unseen
But that's what someone told me but I don't know what it means
'Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
And I think I'm gonna love you for a long long time
Caught in my fears
And I'm sittin here blinking back the tears
I can't say it was you that hurt me when you never let me near
But i, I never drew one response from you
No,no , no, not once
All the while you fell all over girls you never knew
Oh but I've, I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
Oh I know I'm gonna love you
For a long long time
Wait for the day
'Cause they tell me that it will go away
Knowing that you warned me of the price I'd have to pay
Ooh life is full of flaws
Sometimes I wonder who knows the cause?
I'm living in the memory of a love that never was
Oh but I'm I'm doing everything I know
'cause I want to make you mine
And I think I'm gonna love you for a long long time
Oh I'm I'm doing everything I know
'cause I want to make you mine
And I think I'm gonna love you for a long long time
I think I'm gonna love you
Yes I know I'm gonna love you
And it will be for a long time
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
Long Long Time Lyrics as written by Gary B. White
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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