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.
On the third day man down came Zarathustra
And wept "God's dead; all we're left is his bastard"
It's inherent in you, it's inherent in me
It's inherent in the girl praying for change in the street
Humanity's a brain on a monkey leash
Fuck destiny I'd rather get laid and smoke weed
And live through the phone so vicariously
And accept the bullshit from my country's leader of the week
And move to the suburbs and watch TV til death
Well we love our dictators but we hate their pets
There's a busker standing vacant on my block since T.I.C.
I ask him questions about destiny and where we're all meant to be, he said:
Kill the Antichrist
The good no more to die
Don't just exist in your head
The Superman is dead!
Fear will paralyse
The rich capitalise
Solution won't surprise
We need a revolution
So by the sixth day we've got a real fucking problem
Cos Mother Nature's number one trending on Pornhub
The older generation failed cause somebody sold them
American dreams of plantation, selling land that was stolen
From Neanderthal to Millennial, we stick our hand in the blue flame
Just to see if we burn
What's a priest to a pimp?
What's a lorde to a whore?
William Blake cleaned windows, I just kick down the doors
Politicians fill their guts and then they fall on their own swords
A young rebel takes up the guitar, and bravely he cries "No more!"
Kill the Antichrist!
The good no more to die
Don't just exist in your head
The Superman is dead!
Fear will paralyse
The rich capitalise
The solution won't surprise
We need a revolution!
It's a bold new frontier
The stone cold truth sincere
Blood in the water; my mind's pool murky with fear
You can see serpents lurking venomous in the dark
Just off the path that I must walk
Until my feet are bloody
Because you won't meet the Buddha if you're in it for the cameras
Satan is awaiting us with angel dust and wicked sluts
Just to entice you to quit the dream and get that money up
And spend, spend, spend it all on shit that doesn't matter much
But when the bank's broke the devil don't give a fuck about your character
And wept "God's dead; all we're left is his bastard"
It's inherent in you, it's inherent in me
It's inherent in the girl praying for change in the street
Humanity's a brain on a monkey leash
Fuck destiny I'd rather get laid and smoke weed
And live through the phone so vicariously
And accept the bullshit from my country's leader of the week
And move to the suburbs and watch TV til death
Well we love our dictators but we hate their pets
There's a busker standing vacant on my block since T.I.C.
I ask him questions about destiny and where we're all meant to be, he said:
Kill the Antichrist
The good no more to die
Don't just exist in your head
The Superman is dead!
Fear will paralyse
The rich capitalise
Solution won't surprise
We need a revolution
So by the sixth day we've got a real fucking problem
Cos Mother Nature's number one trending on Pornhub
The older generation failed cause somebody sold them
American dreams of plantation, selling land that was stolen
From Neanderthal to Millennial, we stick our hand in the blue flame
Just to see if we burn
What's a priest to a pimp?
What's a lorde to a whore?
William Blake cleaned windows, I just kick down the doors
Politicians fill their guts and then they fall on their own swords
A young rebel takes up the guitar, and bravely he cries "No more!"
Kill the Antichrist!
The good no more to die
Don't just exist in your head
The Superman is dead!
Fear will paralyse
The rich capitalise
The solution won't surprise
We need a revolution!
It's a bold new frontier
The stone cold truth sincere
Blood in the water; my mind's pool murky with fear
You can see serpents lurking venomous in the dark
Just off the path that I must walk
Until my feet are bloody
Because you won't meet the Buddha if you're in it for the cameras
Satan is awaiting us with angel dust and wicked sluts
Just to entice you to quit the dream and get that money up
And spend, spend, spend it all on shit that doesn't matter much
But when the bank's broke the devil don't give a fuck about your character
Lyrics submitted by fallen_crow05
The Superman Is Dead! Lyrics as written by Benji Toms
Lyrics © O/B/O DistroKid
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I lurve this song! I thinks its my favorite from the SOUR album.. although I've yet to hear "Ours"... sniiiiff