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.
A man walks bare-foot along the path
He leaves his tracks a question mark
A girl comes later from the bridge
She lets her footprints fall in his
His heart is glad she's a-gonna come
He sits down to wait for the setting sun
She leaves her house just after dark
Out on the road there's a speeding car
The driver was drunk and didn't see her
And now one man waits down by the river
How can it be so late and she's not with him
He feels the dread swell up within him
Fallin' down, fallin' down
How come I feel I'm fallin' down
Won't somebody help me, I'm fallin' down
I just can't keep from fallin' down
There's an ancient culture and a modern plot
There's a drilling rig and a sacred rock
Those angry words upon the flat
Won't make that dreaming come back
There's disease in the body and it won't stop
There's mouths to feed while the food just rots
There's a crowd of people getting shot
There's a loved one gone and meaning lost
Fallin' down, fallin' down
How come I feel I'm fallin' down
Won't somebody help me, I'm fallin' down
I just can't keep from fallin' down
Fallin' down
He leaves his tracks a question mark
A girl comes later from the bridge
She lets her footprints fall in his
His heart is glad she's a-gonna come
He sits down to wait for the setting sun
She leaves her house just after dark
Out on the road there's a speeding car
The driver was drunk and didn't see her
And now one man waits down by the river
How can it be so late and she's not with him
He feels the dread swell up within him
Fallin' down, fallin' down
How come I feel I'm fallin' down
Won't somebody help me, I'm fallin' down
I just can't keep from fallin' down
There's an ancient culture and a modern plot
There's a drilling rig and a sacred rock
Those angry words upon the flat
Won't make that dreaming come back
There's disease in the body and it won't stop
There's mouths to feed while the food just rots
There's a crowd of people getting shot
There's a loved one gone and meaning lost
Fallin' down, fallin' down
How come I feel I'm fallin' down
Won't somebody help me, I'm fallin' down
I just can't keep from fallin' down
Fallin' down
Lyrics submitted by SmashTheElder
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Fortnight
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