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.
Static in the ears
Leftovers from lesser years
Sleepless in the vex
Bed's a mess from restless legs
Cut back to the scene
This, then that, but what between?
Minds eye, rolodex
Each passage lacking context
All those day behind,
fragmented swept up blind
Some stored, some omitted
Misplaced calendar boxes
And who would read a tale so incomplete,
Or who would care to ever sum it's fractioning?
Could you be the one to lift the knee
The one to stretch the last corner and place the fitted sheet?
But that's not how its done.
But that's not how its done.
And that's not how it's done, you need someone else there.
Rolodex in my bed, I couldn't help myself
No, seriously I mean I needed some help
Diggin' up bones from then, I found it ain't much help.
I found the deepest holes are ones I dug myself
But that's not how it's done.
But that's not how it's done.
But that's not how it's done, you need someone else there.
Leftovers from lesser years
Sleepless in the vex
Bed's a mess from restless legs
Cut back to the scene
This, then that, but what between?
Minds eye, rolodex
Each passage lacking context
All those day behind,
fragmented swept up blind
Some stored, some omitted
Misplaced calendar boxes
And who would read a tale so incomplete,
Or who would care to ever sum it's fractioning?
Could you be the one to lift the knee
The one to stretch the last corner and place the fitted sheet?
But that's not how its done.
But that's not how its done.
And that's not how it's done, you need someone else there.
Rolodex in my bed, I couldn't help myself
No, seriously I mean I needed some help
Diggin' up bones from then, I found it ain't much help.
I found the deepest holes are ones I dug myself
But that's not how it's done.
But that's not how it's done.
But that's not how it's done, you need someone else there.
Lyrics submitted by topherclay
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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