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.
Somebody told me about a worn out distraction
That I had let slip away
Then it comes back and rides my shoulders
And it burdens me every new day
Well I'll just sit here like a slow burn out
And try to figure out how to do without you
Who's going to straighten me up when I'm leaning
Who's going to soothe my heart when it's burning
Who's going to be the one to tell me everythings
All right well goodnight, good guy
I'll break the bread of a new day and wonder
If faith will carry me along
But days are longer as my heart gets weaker and
I can only stay so strong
Well I'll just sit here like a wounded soul
Who's finding it difficult to just let go
I'm gonna let you sleep
I'll let you fade off in the night
I pray the Lord to keep
I pray the Lord to hold you tight
Goodnight
That I had let slip away
Then it comes back and rides my shoulders
And it burdens me every new day
Well I'll just sit here like a slow burn out
And try to figure out how to do without you
Who's going to straighten me up when I'm leaning
Who's going to soothe my heart when it's burning
Who's going to be the one to tell me everythings
All right well goodnight, good guy
I'll break the bread of a new day and wonder
If faith will carry me along
But days are longer as my heart gets weaker and
I can only stay so strong
Well I'll just sit here like a wounded soul
Who's finding it difficult to just let go
I'm gonna let you sleep
I'll let you fade off in the night
I pray the Lord to keep
I pray the Lord to hold you tight
Goodnight
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae
Goodnight Good Guy Lyrics as written by Ed Roland
Lyrics © KAREN SCHAUBEN PUBLISHING ADMINISTRATION
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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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To me it's saying he was doing fine about forgetting about a girl until someone reminded him of her. Then it comes back and haunts him, and he can't get her out of his mind.
I remember hearing that Ed said it was about a friend that died. If you put it in that way, it makes sense, especially at the end when he says
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it is the torment of living without the people close to you. hoping maybe to be able to sleep a little time away, maybe not wake up?