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.
Mind is blown but her body’s still in shock
Can’t see nothing as she’s staring at the kitchen clock
Feel so bland in the eye of the storm; it’s a bedroom day
We should switch, we should pass ourselves around
Meet me at the corner; tear your dream-home down
It’s a goddamn shit-show out here now
Something to tell you about, someone told me about
I know I’m weak and this weekend you’ll find out
Yes, I sleep at the fucking whore’s house now
In a cinematic, cinematic fades to black
Every day is a rodeo, man
No one’s gonna change, nobody ever does
No one’s gonna change, no one’s changing for you
No one’s gonna change, nobody ever does
And I’m never gonna do what you want me to
Sittin’ there speaking Greek to a college blog
Every sentence is the same, it’s just talk, talk, talk
I am one, I admit it, of a million who has it out for these soapbox idiots
Click-clack of your high heels - you’re awake
Downstairs on a tic-tac stripper’s break
Every dancer’s trying to sync to the beat
Every motherfucker in this place tells me the same shit
This whole world’s gotta buy you a drink, man
Gotta take you to the edge and watch you throw it up
Every morning I could give a damn what you did last night
Just tell me how far to kick this can
No one’s gonna change, no one ever does
No one’s gonna change, no one is changing for you
No one’s gonna change, nobody ever does
And I’m never gonna do what you want me to
But I don’t wanna feel so jaded
Getting on a plane to work things out
When I’m alone, you're all I think about
But I’m never alone very long
They say you gotta love yourself first, that’s a trip
I’ve been hating myself since I was a little kid
I know it’s sad that game’s rained out, and the bleachers emptied out
And the turnstiles spin
All the good ones in the world, they’ve been dropping dead
Everybody's got a bullet flying at their head
I seen it coming, man
I seen it coming, man
I seen it coming, no
No one ever changes, hey, that’s the truth
No one’s gonna change, no, baby, not for you!
No one ever changes, and that’s the truth
And I’m never gonna do what you want me to
Can’t see nothing as she’s staring at the kitchen clock
Feel so bland in the eye of the storm; it’s a bedroom day
We should switch, we should pass ourselves around
Meet me at the corner; tear your dream-home down
It’s a goddamn shit-show out here now
Something to tell you about, someone told me about
I know I’m weak and this weekend you’ll find out
Yes, I sleep at the fucking whore’s house now
In a cinematic, cinematic fades to black
Every day is a rodeo, man
No one’s gonna change, nobody ever does
No one’s gonna change, no one’s changing for you
No one’s gonna change, nobody ever does
And I’m never gonna do what you want me to
Sittin’ there speaking Greek to a college blog
Every sentence is the same, it’s just talk, talk, talk
I am one, I admit it, of a million who has it out for these soapbox idiots
Click-clack of your high heels - you’re awake
Downstairs on a tic-tac stripper’s break
Every dancer’s trying to sync to the beat
Every motherfucker in this place tells me the same shit
This whole world’s gotta buy you a drink, man
Gotta take you to the edge and watch you throw it up
Every morning I could give a damn what you did last night
Just tell me how far to kick this can
No one’s gonna change, no one ever does
No one’s gonna change, no one is changing for you
No one’s gonna change, nobody ever does
And I’m never gonna do what you want me to
But I don’t wanna feel so jaded
Getting on a plane to work things out
When I’m alone, you're all I think about
But I’m never alone very long
They say you gotta love yourself first, that’s a trip
I’ve been hating myself since I was a little kid
I know it’s sad that game’s rained out, and the bleachers emptied out
And the turnstiles spin
All the good ones in the world, they’ve been dropping dead
Everybody's got a bullet flying at their head
I seen it coming, man
I seen it coming, man
I seen it coming, no
No one ever changes, hey, that’s the truth
No one’s gonna change, no, baby, not for you!
No one ever changes, and that’s the truth
And I’m never gonna do what you want me to
Lyrics submitted by Genja007
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"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
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