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.
I had an emptiness and vowed never to return.
This world has hollowed walls where every lie is heard.
So many sleepless nights, your words have kept me blind.
The suffering will end, thy will be done.
You’ve always held me back and now I’m destined to return (to return)
My eyes have opened up I now see the light my fears be burned.
Too many questions why, I’m feeling dead inside.
I draw my one last breathe these god will bleed in you.
When darkness comes alive (when darkness comes alive)
Will you pick me up again?
There’s conflict deep inside (there’s conflict deep inside)
There’s are hole in my chest within.
Deep within!
I tear another page of this book
let the flames alight.
Your words are an open grave
you better watch your mouth, revenge is mine!
On hollowed grounds, where the silence speaks to me within
On hollowed grounds, will this life be lived in vain?
My one hope is fading
My one life decaying
What have you now become?
Time to let your guard down
Open wounds I cry out
What have you now become?
The time is set for you have done.
So take this life we die as one.
LET IT FUCKING BURN!
We die as one.
And everyone moment I wait inside
Is another prey for the grave
Here we go.
On hollowed grounds, where the silence speaks to me within
On hollowed grounds, will this life be lived in vain?
Lived in vain!
I had an emptiness and vowed never to return.
This world has hollowed walls where every lie is heard.
So many sleepless nights, your words have kept me blind.
The suffering will end, thy will be done.
This world has hollowed walls where every lie is heard.
So many sleepless nights, your words have kept me blind.
The suffering will end, thy will be done.
You’ve always held me back and now I’m destined to return (to return)
My eyes have opened up I now see the light my fears be burned.
Too many questions why, I’m feeling dead inside.
I draw my one last breathe these god will bleed in you.
When darkness comes alive (when darkness comes alive)
Will you pick me up again?
There’s conflict deep inside (there’s conflict deep inside)
There’s are hole in my chest within.
Deep within!
I tear another page of this book
let the flames alight.
Your words are an open grave
you better watch your mouth, revenge is mine!
On hollowed grounds, where the silence speaks to me within
On hollowed grounds, will this life be lived in vain?
My one hope is fading
My one life decaying
What have you now become?
Time to let your guard down
Open wounds I cry out
What have you now become?
The time is set for you have done.
So take this life we die as one.
LET IT FUCKING BURN!
We die as one.
And everyone moment I wait inside
Is another prey for the grave
Here we go.
On hollowed grounds, where the silence speaks to me within
On hollowed grounds, will this life be lived in vain?
Lived in vain!
I had an emptiness and vowed never to return.
This world has hollowed walls where every lie is heard.
So many sleepless nights, your words have kept me blind.
The suffering will end, thy will be done.
Lyrics submitted by sokorny
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