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.
Into mass graves we've shoveled lives
A massive pipeline for the lies
A past so vast with genocide
And ignorance we hid behind
You say that we are done with this
Turn blind eyes and still dismiss
Chalk this up as something passed
And still create a lower caste
Lies
Lies
Lies
Lies
The way you live shows no remorese
For the day
The day we killed crazy horse
Innocence with glassy eyes
Kill the nation, steal their pride
On broken backs we build empires
Twisting spines for the steeple spires
How many people can you kill?
Look at your twenty dollar bill
Do you see third world poverty
Inside the lines of of your country?
And now to treaties we are loyal
But tear them up when we smell oil
Lies
Lies
Lies
Lies
The way you live shows no remorese
For the day
The day we killed crazy horse
Innocence with glassy eyes
Kill the nation, steal their pride
The way you live shows no remorese
For the day
The day we killed crazy horse
Innocence with glassy eyes
Kill the nation, steal their pride
"I can still see the butchered women and children
lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch.
And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud,
and was buried in the blizzard.
A people’s dream died there.
It was a beautiful dream."
The way you live shows no remorese
For the day
The day we killed crazy horse
Innocence with glassy eyes
Kill the nation, steal their pride
The way you live shows no remorese
For the day
The day we killed crazy horse
Innocence with glassy eyes
Kill the nation, steal their pride
A massive pipeline for the lies
A past so vast with genocide
And ignorance we hid behind
You say that we are done with this
Turn blind eyes and still dismiss
Chalk this up as something passed
And still create a lower caste
Lies
Lies
Lies
Lies
The way you live shows no remorese
For the day
The day we killed crazy horse
Innocence with glassy eyes
Kill the nation, steal their pride
On broken backs we build empires
Twisting spines for the steeple spires
How many people can you kill?
Look at your twenty dollar bill
Do you see third world poverty
Inside the lines of of your country?
And now to treaties we are loyal
But tear them up when we smell oil
Lies
Lies
Lies
Lies
The way you live shows no remorese
For the day
The day we killed crazy horse
Innocence with glassy eyes
Kill the nation, steal their pride
The way you live shows no remorese
For the day
The day we killed crazy horse
Innocence with glassy eyes
Kill the nation, steal their pride
"I can still see the butchered women and children
lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch.
And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud,
and was buried in the blizzard.
A people’s dream died there.
It was a beautiful dream."
The way you live shows no remorese
For the day
The day we killed crazy horse
Innocence with glassy eyes
Kill the nation, steal their pride
The way you live shows no remorese
For the day
The day we killed crazy horse
Innocence with glassy eyes
Kill the nation, steal their pride
Lyrics submitted by DesignedToHide, edited by zehnra
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