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.
Wait for everything evil in you comes out
I'll stain when we'll only motivate sound instead, Sergeant
Make for the table, in hopes that I won't be afraid again
Call when enabled and send the leader out against
I will stage a reenactment in a false pretense
Exist, inflict unworthy unconsciousness
Why debate when the action's suppressed then kill the acquitted?
Listen to the sounds that remain in question in hopes to solidify a truce
Amongst the children and the jury that stands the verdict
Alive here among the dead
Evolve, Monstar
Show me the things I've never wanted done
Evolve, Monstar
Do to me the things I never wanted done
I, I felt much better than this before
If they find out to avoid
Then the accidents kept hidden away
But if they stay
Blood-hungry, cannibalistic, unfit family ties
In a series of knocks to the young girl's head side
Come write me a letter and paste it on my refrigerator door
Inspected inspector, I think we've found something over here
I, I felt much better than this before
If they find out to avoid
Then the accidents kept hidden away
But if they stay
Jesse, just come look at what your brother did
Here, he did away with me
Jesse, just come look at what your brother did
Here, he did away with me
Stay until Wednesday
And write me a childlike letter, pretending
At war here in Thursday
Let's make this our last day at home by the Fence
Would you run? Would you run?
Would you run, down past the Fence?
Would you run? Would you run?
Would you run, down past the Fence? (FBI)
And she screamed, "Claudio, dear Claudio
I wish, God damn it, we'll make it if you believe"
And she screamed, "Claudio, dear Claudio
I wish, God damn it, we'll make it if you believe" (FBI)
And she screamed, "Claudio, dear Claudio
I wish, God damn it, we'll make it if you believe"
And she screamed, "Claudio"
I'll stain when we'll only motivate sound instead, Sergeant
Make for the table, in hopes that I won't be afraid again
Call when enabled and send the leader out against
I will stage a reenactment in a false pretense
Exist, inflict unworthy unconsciousness
Why debate when the action's suppressed then kill the acquitted?
Listen to the sounds that remain in question in hopes to solidify a truce
Amongst the children and the jury that stands the verdict
Alive here among the dead
Evolve, Monstar
Show me the things I've never wanted done
Evolve, Monstar
Do to me the things I never wanted done
I, I felt much better than this before
If they find out to avoid
Then the accidents kept hidden away
But if they stay
Blood-hungry, cannibalistic, unfit family ties
In a series of knocks to the young girl's head side
Come write me a letter and paste it on my refrigerator door
Inspected inspector, I think we've found something over here
I, I felt much better than this before
If they find out to avoid
Then the accidents kept hidden away
But if they stay
Jesse, just come look at what your brother did
Here, he did away with me
Jesse, just come look at what your brother did
Here, he did away with me
Stay until Wednesday
And write me a childlike letter, pretending
At war here in Thursday
Let's make this our last day at home by the Fence
Would you run? Would you run?
Would you run, down past the Fence?
Would you run? Would you run?
Would you run, down past the Fence? (FBI)
And she screamed, "Claudio, dear Claudio
I wish, God damn it, we'll make it if you believe"
And she screamed, "Claudio, dear Claudio
I wish, God damn it, we'll make it if you believe" (FBI)
And she screamed, "Claudio, dear Claudio
I wish, God damn it, we'll make it if you believe"
And she screamed, "Claudio"
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Everything Evil Lyrics as written by Joshua Eppard Claudio Sanchez
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