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.
Life will come our way
It has only just begun
The world will die alone
The frail will fall below
Time will take our place
We return it back to one
The calm before the cold
The long and lonely road
Look for the light that leads me home
Tired of feeling lost, tired of letting go
Tear the whole world down, tear the whole world down
Failure
Drive the cloud away
We will fall from last to none
The dark before the dawn
The war will carry on
Look for the light that leads me home
Tired of feeling lost, tired of letting go
Tear the whole world down, tear the whole world down
Tired of wasted breath, tired of nothing left
Tear the whole world down, tear the whole world down
Failure
Tired of feeling lost, tired of letting go
Tear the whole world down, tear the whole world down
Tired of wasted breath, tired of nothing left
Tear the whole world down, tear the whole world down
We bury the sunlight (so long), we bury the sunlight (so long)
Failure, failure (so long, so long)
We bury the sunlight (so long), we bury the sunlight (so long)
Failure, failure (so long, so long)
Failure
It has only just begun
The world will die alone
The frail will fall below
Time will take our place
We return it back to one
The calm before the cold
The long and lonely road
Look for the light that leads me home
Tired of feeling lost, tired of letting go
Tear the whole world down, tear the whole world down
Failure
Drive the cloud away
We will fall from last to none
The dark before the dawn
The war will carry on
Look for the light that leads me home
Tired of feeling lost, tired of letting go
Tear the whole world down, tear the whole world down
Tired of wasted breath, tired of nothing left
Tear the whole world down, tear the whole world down
Failure
Tired of feeling lost, tired of letting go
Tear the whole world down, tear the whole world down
Tired of wasted breath, tired of nothing left
Tear the whole world down, tear the whole world down
We bury the sunlight (so long), we bury the sunlight (so long)
Failure, failure (so long, so long)
We bury the sunlight (so long), we bury the sunlight (so long)
Failure, failure (so long, so long)
Failure
Lyrics submitted by AdamArtz, edited by GameOver64, lanbrown
Failure Lyrics as written by Benjamin Burnley
Lyrics © Walt Disney Music Company
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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Pretty sure this song is about suicide.
The "world" is basically the life of the hypothetical singer, as his life is his whole world, and he's going to "tear the whole world down" because he's "tired" of being a failure. The "failure" at the end of the chorus is like him saying it to himself, "You are a failure." He's looking for the "light" that leads him "home", most likely his hope for him to return to the place of light from which he was created, his home.