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.
The brighter thing get to realize your dreams,
Brings all the whole world to judge on your scene.
I'm trying to ask you to open up your senses,
To all the fine things that tear down the fences.
Put up by, and kept by those who don't always listen.
To what the father told you they won't be missing.
Out and down on this child's intervention.
This boy never meant nothing but just to give you.
All about the passion
All about the passion
All about the passion
All about the passion
All about the passion
Extra now extra won't you read all about it.
Seems you've grown up, turned your life around it
Don't judge him on what the others might say,
You'll be asking him for just one thing some other day.
He's tryin', he's buyin', he's got himself a time
And it looks like, and it feels like, he's doing fine.
So won't you stay back off his line.
This boy never meant nothing but just to give you.
People, now people, won't you please understand.
This child's not thinking about what others chance.
The rain's pouring down on him like harsh blowing sand.
Blinding game of darkness it's no wonder he ran
Back to the old school right now if they see him though.
They know that he's brewing up a fresh batch of home stew
Now they'll sit back and if they only knew.
This boy never meant nothing but just to give you.
Brings all the whole world to judge on your scene.
I'm trying to ask you to open up your senses,
To all the fine things that tear down the fences.
Put up by, and kept by those who don't always listen.
To what the father told you they won't be missing.
Out and down on this child's intervention.
This boy never meant nothing but just to give you.
All about the passion
All about the passion
All about the passion
All about the passion
All about the passion
Extra now extra won't you read all about it.
Seems you've grown up, turned your life around it
Don't judge him on what the others might say,
You'll be asking him for just one thing some other day.
He's tryin', he's buyin', he's got himself a time
And it looks like, and it feels like, he's doing fine.
So won't you stay back off his line.
This boy never meant nothing but just to give you.
People, now people, won't you please understand.
This child's not thinking about what others chance.
The rain's pouring down on him like harsh blowing sand.
Blinding game of darkness it's no wonder he ran
Back to the old school right now if they see him though.
They know that he's brewing up a fresh batch of home stew
Now they'll sit back and if they only knew.
This boy never meant nothing but just to give you.
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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