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.
[Verse 1: JOBA]
It's so easy living in delusion
All I see is an illusion
Lend a hand, I could use one
Skipping stars on a cloudy night
Hearing colors, seeing music
I can taste the air
Something like a love affair
Is only fair when it's pretend
In the chaos, I am still here
[Chorus: JOBA & Christian Alexander]
They'll never understand
They'll never understand
I like the way it hurts me
I like the way it hurts me
They'll never understand
They'll never understand
I like the way it hurts me
I like the way it hurts me
[Verse 2: Kevin Abstract]
I fear for my life like the president
I'm loyal to my brothers like a, like a blood
Texas niggas where I get my genius from
Mama got some half brothers
And they from the same place where Stevie from
I be in the city, I don't let 'em come backstage
I'm afraid my family cursed
Why the fuck you think a nigga had to go and change his last name?
Yeah, I'm from the trash, it was do or die
Made it out alive, only the strong survive
Had to sell my soul to help my mama out
Never turn on your niggas for some clout
You forgetting how to take the trash out
Five hoes a night the last house
I'm throwing cash out
I made an ass out myself
Drunk as fuck in the airport
Probably kill ya if I tried to care more
Take my own life like it's a damn sport
Like it's Shakespeare
Nigga, eight years
No acres, on ay-ers
All my heroes from Chicago or Brooklyn
They a Laker
[Bridge: THE BLOSSOM]
As you sleep at night, the city's burning down to the ground
While I'm wide awake, I howl at the moon
All your dreams are never-ending circles keeping me around
But I'm just a man with nothing to lose
[Refrain: Kevin Abstract]
I'm just a man
I'm just a man
I'm just a man
I am just a man
I am just a man
I am just a man
[Verse 4: Matt Champion]
At your spot 34 floors up
Quick with it, should've never froze up
Had your nose in things you shouldn't
Protected when I know I couldn't
Innocence stripped from the grip
Watch it slip out your tatted hands
On the phone, call and see how far they is
Man you playin' round, we was just some kids
Like red tray round the TV set
I've been pretty gone dog, you a vet
Lucky getting off with a minor offense
With the walls closing, holding up your head
Should've pulled you out
Should've saw the [?]
What you gonna do, what you gonna do?
Sitting 'round the circle, faces turning purple
Same convo, same dead-end
Always tryna talk you out this damn lane
[?] the face all the things you left
Hanging over everybody but they never show you all the pain that they get
Out there shakin', [?] fadin'
[?] self-hatred
Got my [?] my wrist up
[Outro: Matt Champion, Kevin Abstract & JOBA]
I will make it home okay
I will make it home okay
It's so easy living in delusion
All I see is an illusion
Lend a hand, I could use one
Skipping stars on a cloudy night
Hearing colors, seeing music
I can taste the air
Something like a love affair
Is only fair when it's pretend
In the chaos, I am still here
[Chorus: JOBA & Christian Alexander]
They'll never understand
They'll never understand
I like the way it hurts me
I like the way it hurts me
They'll never understand
They'll never understand
I like the way it hurts me
I like the way it hurts me
[Verse 2: Kevin Abstract]
I fear for my life like the president
I'm loyal to my brothers like a, like a blood
Texas niggas where I get my genius from
Mama got some half brothers
And they from the same place where Stevie from
I be in the city, I don't let 'em come backstage
I'm afraid my family cursed
Why the fuck you think a nigga had to go and change his last name?
Yeah, I'm from the trash, it was do or die
Made it out alive, only the strong survive
Had to sell my soul to help my mama out
Never turn on your niggas for some clout
You forgetting how to take the trash out
Five hoes a night the last house
I'm throwing cash out
I made an ass out myself
Drunk as fuck in the airport
Probably kill ya if I tried to care more
Take my own life like it's a damn sport
Like it's Shakespeare
Nigga, eight years
No acres, on ay-ers
All my heroes from Chicago or Brooklyn
They a Laker
[Bridge: THE BLOSSOM]
As you sleep at night, the city's burning down to the ground
While I'm wide awake, I howl at the moon
All your dreams are never-ending circles keeping me around
But I'm just a man with nothing to lose
[Refrain: Kevin Abstract]
I'm just a man
I'm just a man
I'm just a man
I am just a man
I am just a man
I am just a man
[Verse 4: Matt Champion]
At your spot 34 floors up
Quick with it, should've never froze up
Had your nose in things you shouldn't
Protected when I know I couldn't
Innocence stripped from the grip
Watch it slip out your tatted hands
On the phone, call and see how far they is
Man you playin' round, we was just some kids
Like red tray round the TV set
I've been pretty gone dog, you a vet
Lucky getting off with a minor offense
With the walls closing, holding up your head
Should've pulled you out
Should've saw the [?]
What you gonna do, what you gonna do?
Sitting 'round the circle, faces turning purple
Same convo, same dead-end
Always tryna talk you out this damn lane
[?] the face all the things you left
Hanging over everybody but they never show you all the pain that they get
Out there shakin', [?] fadin'
[?] self-hatred
Got my [?] my wrist up
[Outro: Matt Champion, Kevin Abstract & JOBA]
I will make it home okay
I will make it home okay
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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