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.
Janey said she had a problem with the modern world
All the boys she ever loved are with another girl
And her father always wanna bring her way down low and
All the doctors that she ever met have gotta way to go
Jane said she had a problem with her mother's wealth
Said she ought to cut and run and grow up by herself
So, she wrote a letter to them on the way to school
The way to school now
Said she cannot live her life under her father's rule
Don't call the morning after
Won't stop the pain and laughter
Won't fix the failing plan, you gotta pay the man
You gotta give it all away and you have gotta go
Janey said she had a problem with her failing health
Said she's gonna fix it all up on the national health
She only got a couple of worries gotten out of hand and
When she tells her doctors that they never understand
Don't call the morning after
Won't stop the pain and laughter
Won't help to pass the blame, you gotta take the pain
You gotta give it all away and you have gotta go
Janey had a revelation on the way to school
Said she gonna hang herself up the bathing pool
She's really gonna lay it on them 'cause she always knew that
Every mother wants to die before her children do
Don't call the morning after
Won't stop the big disaster
Don't miss the main event, you gotta pay the rent
You gotta give it all away and you have gotta go
C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon we're living in the modern world
C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon we're living in the modern world
C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon we're living in the modern world
C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon we're living in the modern world
All the boys she ever loved are with another girl
And her father always wanna bring her way down low and
All the doctors that she ever met have gotta way to go
Jane said she had a problem with her mother's wealth
Said she ought to cut and run and grow up by herself
So, she wrote a letter to them on the way to school
The way to school now
Said she cannot live her life under her father's rule
Don't call the morning after
Won't stop the pain and laughter
Won't fix the failing plan, you gotta pay the man
You gotta give it all away and you have gotta go
Janey said she had a problem with her failing health
Said she's gonna fix it all up on the national health
She only got a couple of worries gotten out of hand and
When she tells her doctors that they never understand
Don't call the morning after
Won't stop the pain and laughter
Won't help to pass the blame, you gotta take the pain
You gotta give it all away and you have gotta go
Janey had a revelation on the way to school
Said she gonna hang herself up the bathing pool
She's really gonna lay it on them 'cause she always knew that
Every mother wants to die before her children do
Don't call the morning after
Won't stop the big disaster
Don't miss the main event, you gotta pay the rent
You gotta give it all away and you have gotta go
C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon we're living in the modern world
C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon we're living in the modern world
C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon we're living in the modern world
C'mon c'mon c'mon c'mon we're living in the modern world
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
The Morning After Lyrics as written by Jason Andrew Pierce
Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY, BMG Rights Management
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