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.
Hella boys say, hella boys say, hella boys
I feel just like Zayn
I feel just like Harry
I cop it and I flip it
Have it sittin' on pirellis
Me and all my niggas
South side, One Direction
Tens and tens and tens and tens
Got lens that make direction
Flow to my location
Lowkey I'm in Cali just avoiding my probation
Fuck your jurisdiction, fuck the federales
Sold out by my father, he gon' feel the karma
When I get the, get the commas, nigga
I don't have, I don't have no fear, nigga
Buy the ounce, sellin' ounces over here, nigga
I don't lie, I just bought a whole grill
Arguing with my bitch, my whip sit twenty-six nigga
Lowkey I'm a heartthrob
And I ain't drop an album yet
I'm something like a poster
Sitting on your girl's wall
And something about my face
Make her take her clothes off
Ya'll say I got bitches
But y'all bitches make my dick soft
Why y'all always mad cause I'm feeling myself
What the fuck you mean?
I can't feel myself?
Old girl suburban
But now I'm on to new things
Ego like celebrity, but real like a dope fiend
Tanning out in Hollywood, got Chantel's on my coattails
From motels to hotels, I'm good
Bitch I'm good, from hotels to motels, I'm good
Bitch I'm good, from hotels to motels, I'm good
Bitch I'm good
Hella boys say, hella boys say, hella boys
They say that they want me, they forgot about me
They say that they want me, they forgot about me
They say that they want me, they forgot about me
They say that they want me, they forgot about me
In the city I'm a menace
I give C.E.O's the business
Marathons I gotta finish
Foreign whip is speaking Yiddish
Lately I been feeling vicious
Why y'all crying like some infants
You don't wanna be a witness
Then you better mind your fucking business
All these crumbs on my denim
We the only dogs spitting venom
Been some years I tried to tell them
But they wanted me to be the villain
They just wanted me to lose
Ones I love, made me choose
Had to cut the ones I thought I'd take to the top
Just so I could make a move
Dropped out of college
Smoking the same campus
Tell me 'bout limits
Last year I was suicidal
Took those thoughts and tried to kill it
Used to avoid, used to being paranoid
Huffin with my boys
Pack it up, I shake the world like asteroids
Give me love before you try to give me noise
I destroy
Hella boys say, hella boys say, hella boys
They say that they want me they forgot about me
I feel just like Zayn
I feel just like Harry
I cop it and I flip it
Have it sittin' on pirellis
Me and all my niggas
South side, One Direction
Tens and tens and tens and tens
Got lens that make direction
Flow to my location
Lowkey I'm in Cali just avoiding my probation
Fuck your jurisdiction, fuck the federales
Sold out by my father, he gon' feel the karma
When I get the, get the commas, nigga
I don't have, I don't have no fear, nigga
Buy the ounce, sellin' ounces over here, nigga
I don't lie, I just bought a whole grill
Arguing with my bitch, my whip sit twenty-six nigga
Lowkey I'm a heartthrob
And I ain't drop an album yet
I'm something like a poster
Sitting on your girl's wall
And something about my face
Make her take her clothes off
Ya'll say I got bitches
But y'all bitches make my dick soft
Why y'all always mad cause I'm feeling myself
What the fuck you mean?
I can't feel myself?
Old girl suburban
But now I'm on to new things
Ego like celebrity, but real like a dope fiend
Tanning out in Hollywood, got Chantel's on my coattails
From motels to hotels, I'm good
Bitch I'm good, from hotels to motels, I'm good
Bitch I'm good, from hotels to motels, I'm good
Bitch I'm good
Hella boys say, hella boys say, hella boys
They say that they want me, they forgot about me
They say that they want me, they forgot about me
They say that they want me, they forgot about me
They say that they want me, they forgot about me
In the city I'm a menace
I give C.E.O's the business
Marathons I gotta finish
Foreign whip is speaking Yiddish
Lately I been feeling vicious
Why y'all crying like some infants
You don't wanna be a witness
Then you better mind your fucking business
All these crumbs on my denim
We the only dogs spitting venom
Been some years I tried to tell them
But they wanted me to be the villain
They just wanted me to lose
Ones I love, made me choose
Had to cut the ones I thought I'd take to the top
Just so I could make a move
Dropped out of college
Smoking the same campus
Tell me 'bout limits
Last year I was suicidal
Took those thoughts and tried to kill it
Used to avoid, used to being paranoid
Huffin with my boys
Pack it up, I shake the world like asteroids
Give me love before you try to give me noise
I destroy
Hella boys say, hella boys say, hella boys
They say that they want me they forgot about me
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Fortnight
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