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.
Broken like a mirror
Were pieces of you and me
Reflecting light fissures
Trial of this century
We stand at the forefront
Frothing and philistine
Before the sun sets you'll forget
You were fashion and spring
You can only be hurt by what you love
Life after dance, a modern cause
Before the sun sets, you'll die with your dance
When they send (send, send, send) palms (palms, palms)
Over twenty-nine palms (send, send, send) palms (palms, palms)
She was sky at the door
I wanted to see how he'd changed
The walls were all there but four holes
Where my painting should hang
A ruin of pay per month
No longer at this address
We haven't done much, she said
Aware of the emptiness
You can only be hurt by what you love
Life after dance, a modern cause
Before the sun sets, you'll die with your dance
Have you sent (send, send, send) palms (palms, palms)
Over twenty-nine palms (send, send, send) palms (palms, palms)
Home is the place
You can never go back when you leave
Guys tending the flowers
While you're out pulling the weeds
You can fly back to town
And hang out like a ghost in a sheet
But what is the point
When you can no longer be seen?
You can only be hurt by what you love
Life after dance, a modern cause
Before the sun sets, you'll be smoking again
When they send (send, send, send) palms (palms, palms)
Over twenty-nine palms (send, send, send) palms (palms, palms)
You'll know which one to rest
When they greet them with a kiss
Were pieces of you and me
Reflecting light fissures
Trial of this century
We stand at the forefront
Frothing and philistine
Before the sun sets you'll forget
You were fashion and spring
You can only be hurt by what you love
Life after dance, a modern cause
Before the sun sets, you'll die with your dance
When they send (send, send, send) palms (palms, palms)
Over twenty-nine palms (send, send, send) palms (palms, palms)
She was sky at the door
I wanted to see how he'd changed
The walls were all there but four holes
Where my painting should hang
A ruin of pay per month
No longer at this address
We haven't done much, she said
Aware of the emptiness
You can only be hurt by what you love
Life after dance, a modern cause
Before the sun sets, you'll die with your dance
Have you sent (send, send, send) palms (palms, palms)
Over twenty-nine palms (send, send, send) palms (palms, palms)
Home is the place
You can never go back when you leave
Guys tending the flowers
While you're out pulling the weeds
You can fly back to town
And hang out like a ghost in a sheet
But what is the point
When you can no longer be seen?
You can only be hurt by what you love
Life after dance, a modern cause
Before the sun sets, you'll be smoking again
When they send (send, send, send) palms (palms, palms)
Over twenty-nine palms (send, send, send) palms (palms, palms)
You'll know which one to rest
When they greet them with a kiss
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
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Great version of a great song,
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