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.
Sometimes I pray for the rain
You know I try, to see things from your side
To leave things undefined
But where would you advise?
That I generate a new design
For the missing piece I had to disguise
Saw a paper with the header that your love is just a myth I devised
And things like that you can never take back again
Things like that you can never take back again
If there was a time
That you loved me
If there was a time
When you said that you want me to believe
But you can't go back, baby
Can't go back, baby
And sometimes I pray for the rain
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
You and your glass world that does ring
Though at times a frozen thing
It encloses you in its crystalline
Look so lovely but you'll have to decide
If you could play it in reverse then you'd find
That you'd better reconsider all the love you took and then cast aside
But things like that you can never take back again
Things like that you can never take back again
If there was a time
When you loved me
If there was a time
When you said that you want me to believe
But you can't go back, baby
Can't go back, baby
And sometimes I pray for the rain
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
Girl, I know I'm losing time without you
Never had a second chance before this time
But things like that, they never do work out right
Things like that, no, they never do work out right
Can't go back, baby
Can't go back, baby
And sometimes I pray for the rain
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
You know I try, to see things from your side
To leave things undefined
But where would you advise?
That I generate a new design
For the missing piece I had to disguise
Saw a paper with the header that your love is just a myth I devised
And things like that you can never take back again
Things like that you can never take back again
If there was a time
That you loved me
If there was a time
When you said that you want me to believe
But you can't go back, baby
Can't go back, baby
And sometimes I pray for the rain
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
You and your glass world that does ring
Though at times a frozen thing
It encloses you in its crystalline
Look so lovely but you'll have to decide
If you could play it in reverse then you'd find
That you'd better reconsider all the love you took and then cast aside
But things like that you can never take back again
Things like that you can never take back again
If there was a time
When you loved me
If there was a time
When you said that you want me to believe
But you can't go back, baby
Can't go back, baby
And sometimes I pray for the rain
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
Girl, I know I'm losing time without you
Never had a second chance before this time
But things like that, they never do work out right
Things like that, no, they never do work out right
Can't go back, baby
Can't go back, baby
And sometimes I pray for the rain
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la
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