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.
What we need to carry on
Primordial aim
Endeavour is fading though
Defending against destiny
Everything around different
Earth’s energy is depleted
This eon will end soon
Only by us
If we don’t look at the stream
In the fountain
Those days, this dream wants to
Sleep away
Closed in form
We don’t see the light
That emanates from the source
Endeavour wore off
No longer do I have
To be possessed by the mind
But sometimes tears
Come when they try
To profane the ground
No longer do I have to be
Possessed by the mind
But sometimes tears
Come when they try
To profane the ground
I want to sleep away
This dream
Those days
This reality of greedy hunger
The nightmare is not only mine
Decadence is closer than now
Time of transition will come
No longer do I have to be
Possessed by the mind
But sometimes tears
Come when they try
To profane the ground
Primordial aim
Endeavour is fading though
Defending against destiny
Everything around different
Earth’s energy is depleted
This eon will end soon
Only by us
If we don’t look at the stream
In the fountain
Those days, this dream wants to
Sleep away
Closed in form
We don’t see the light
That emanates from the source
Endeavour wore off
No longer do I have
To be possessed by the mind
But sometimes tears
Come when they try
To profane the ground
No longer do I have to be
Possessed by the mind
But sometimes tears
Come when they try
To profane the ground
I want to sleep away
This dream
Those days
This reality of greedy hunger
The nightmare is not only mine
Decadence is closer than now
Time of transition will come
No longer do I have to be
Possessed by the mind
But sometimes tears
Come when they try
To profane the ground
Lyrics submitted by sokorny
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