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.
The boys on the subway talk too loud
They want everyone to look
One of them is counting his money
Looking proudly around
But who is he fooling?
No one here is drooling
Over his crumpled paper notes
His parents never loved him enough as a kid
Or what do I know? Maybe they really did
But he's got a new daddy now
Watching over, looking how
He's counting the money
He's counting the money in his hand
And everyone understands and knows
That once he's counted the money
It goes into someone else's hand
He wants to be the worst
'Cause he can't be the best
And he's not the first
He's a mortal like the rest of us
Even more because
Somebody fooled him
And now they rule him
With crumpled paper notes
And I don't wanna stare
It's not my business
I don't care, life isn't fair
All I hear is the iPod in my ear
I want to get off the train
Go running out in the rain
But finally it's my stop
And I can get off
At the subway station
The train rolls away to its destination
With the boys trapped inside
With the boys on a joyride
With the boys trapped inside
With the boys on a joyride
With the boys
And there's a song inside of us
It can't be wrong simply because
We were born
Who fooled you?
Who rules you?
Who schooled you?
And there's a song inside of us
It can't be wrong simply because
We were born
Who fooled you?
Who rules you?
Who schooled you?
And there's a song inside of us
It can't be wrong simply because
We were born
Who fooled you?
Who rules you?
Who schooled you?
They want everyone to look
One of them is counting his money
Looking proudly around
But who is he fooling?
No one here is drooling
Over his crumpled paper notes
His parents never loved him enough as a kid
Or what do I know? Maybe they really did
But he's got a new daddy now
Watching over, looking how
He's counting the money
He's counting the money in his hand
And everyone understands and knows
That once he's counted the money
It goes into someone else's hand
He wants to be the worst
'Cause he can't be the best
And he's not the first
He's a mortal like the rest of us
Even more because
Somebody fooled him
And now they rule him
With crumpled paper notes
And I don't wanna stare
It's not my business
I don't care, life isn't fair
All I hear is the iPod in my ear
I want to get off the train
Go running out in the rain
But finally it's my stop
And I can get off
At the subway station
The train rolls away to its destination
With the boys trapped inside
With the boys on a joyride
With the boys trapped inside
With the boys on a joyride
With the boys
And there's a song inside of us
It can't be wrong simply because
We were born
Who fooled you?
Who rules you?
Who schooled you?
And there's a song inside of us
It can't be wrong simply because
We were born
Who fooled you?
Who rules you?
Who schooled you?
And there's a song inside of us
It can't be wrong simply because
We were born
Who fooled you?
Who rules you?
Who schooled you?
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher, edited by middledistancerunner
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