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.
[Pre-Chorus]
Don't play with it, pussy so good make me stay in it (Yeah)
All about the cash girl I stay with it (Ooh)
We go up in the air we could, fly
Soon as we land we gon', slide
I'ma roll this weed we get, high (Aye, ooh baby, aye, yeah baby)
[Chorus]
First you can tell me how you want it (How you want it)
I'ma give you how you want it too (Yeah baby)
Drop top speeding and it's on me (Yeah baby)
You can have the keys if you want it too (Aye)
I got cash I be on it (I be on it)
I be counting cash 'till the morning ('Till the morning)
You can spend this cash if you want it (If you want it, aye)
Getting money I be on it (Yeah baby)
[Verse 1]
You know I'm really 'bout a bang, know I play with it baby
Getting money every day, know I stay with it baby
I got a lemonadе just to put [?] in it baby
It's something fast outside we can skatе in it baby (Yeah baby)
Put 'em in a drop two seater, only when you see the cops put the weed up
Take you to the top if you need it (If you need that), real niggas make it stack (Yeah baby)
[Pre-Chorus]
Don't play with it, pussy so good make me stay in it (Yeah)
All about the cash girl I stay with it (Ooh)
We go up in the air we could, fly (Ya)
Soon as we land we gon', slide (Ya)
I'ma roll this weed we get, high (Aye, ooh baby, aye, yeah baby)
[Chorus]
First you can tell me how you want it (How you want it)
I'ma give you how you want it too (Yeah baby)
Drop top speeding and it's on me (Yeah baby)
You can have the keys if you want it too (Aye)
I got cash I be on it (I be on it)
I be counting cash 'till the morning ('Till the morning)
You can spend this cash if you want it (If you want it, aye)
Getting money I be on it (Yeah baby)
[Verse 2]
I don't even mind being late for you baby (Yeah)
I love to eat, make a play or two baby
Usually you don't wanna leave you can stay a few baby
Ain't no games I won't play with you baby
And I love when you call when you horny
Slide to the crib I pull up she be on it
She ain't even love me after [?]
Aye, start around twelve, fell asleep in the morning, baby
[Pre-Chorus]
Don't play with it (Don't play), pussy so good make me stay in it (Stay)
All about the cash girl I stay with it (Yeah baby)
We go up in the air we could, fly
Soon as we land we gon', slide
I'ma roll this weed we get, high (Aye, ooh baby, aye, yeah baby)
[Chorus]
First you can tell me how you want it (How you want it)
I'ma give you how you want it too (Yeah baby)
Drop top speeding and it's on me (Yeah baby)
You can have the keys if you want it too (Aye)
I got cash I be on it (I be on it)
I be counting cash 'till the morning ('Till the morning)
You can spend this cash if you want it (If you want it, aye)
Getting money I be on it (Yeah baby)
Don't play with it, pussy so good make me stay in it (Yeah)
All about the cash girl I stay with it (Ooh)
We go up in the air we could, fly
Soon as we land we gon', slide
I'ma roll this weed we get, high (Aye, ooh baby, aye, yeah baby)
[Chorus]
First you can tell me how you want it (How you want it)
I'ma give you how you want it too (Yeah baby)
Drop top speeding and it's on me (Yeah baby)
You can have the keys if you want it too (Aye)
I got cash I be on it (I be on it)
I be counting cash 'till the morning ('Till the morning)
You can spend this cash if you want it (If you want it, aye)
Getting money I be on it (Yeah baby)
[Verse 1]
You know I'm really 'bout a bang, know I play with it baby
Getting money every day, know I stay with it baby
I got a lemonadе just to put [?] in it baby
It's something fast outside we can skatе in it baby (Yeah baby)
Put 'em in a drop two seater, only when you see the cops put the weed up
Take you to the top if you need it (If you need that), real niggas make it stack (Yeah baby)
[Pre-Chorus]
Don't play with it, pussy so good make me stay in it (Yeah)
All about the cash girl I stay with it (Ooh)
We go up in the air we could, fly (Ya)
Soon as we land we gon', slide (Ya)
I'ma roll this weed we get, high (Aye, ooh baby, aye, yeah baby)
[Chorus]
First you can tell me how you want it (How you want it)
I'ma give you how you want it too (Yeah baby)
Drop top speeding and it's on me (Yeah baby)
You can have the keys if you want it too (Aye)
I got cash I be on it (I be on it)
I be counting cash 'till the morning ('Till the morning)
You can spend this cash if you want it (If you want it, aye)
Getting money I be on it (Yeah baby)
[Verse 2]
I don't even mind being late for you baby (Yeah)
I love to eat, make a play or two baby
Usually you don't wanna leave you can stay a few baby
Ain't no games I won't play with you baby
And I love when you call when you horny
Slide to the crib I pull up she be on it
She ain't even love me after [?]
Aye, start around twelve, fell asleep in the morning, baby
[Pre-Chorus]
Don't play with it (Don't play), pussy so good make me stay in it (Stay)
All about the cash girl I stay with it (Yeah baby)
We go up in the air we could, fly
Soon as we land we gon', slide
I'ma roll this weed we get, high (Aye, ooh baby, aye, yeah baby)
[Chorus]
First you can tell me how you want it (How you want it)
I'ma give you how you want it too (Yeah baby)
Drop top speeding and it's on me (Yeah baby)
You can have the keys if you want it too (Aye)
I got cash I be on it (I be on it)
I be counting cash 'till the morning ('Till the morning)
You can spend this cash if you want it (If you want it, aye)
Getting money I be on it (Yeah baby)
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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