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.
You and me, we have no faces
Soon our lives will be erased
Do you think they will remember
Or will we just be replaced?
Oh, I wish that I could see
How I wish that I could fly
All the things that hang above me
To a place where I can cry
So, why can't it be?
No one hears because
Echoes back at me
No one's there
To all these meaningless feelings
I can't deal with in my life
To all these greedy people
Trying to feed on what is mine
You've got to fill your hunger
And stop fucking with my mind
I know it's time to leave these places far behind
You and me, we have no faces
They don't see us anymore
Without love as they had promised
And no faith for what's in store
Oh, I wish that I could see
How I wish that I could fly
All the things that hang above me
To a place where I can cry
So, why can't it be?
No one hears because
Echoes back at me
No one's there
To all these meaningless feelings
I can't deal with in my life
To all these greedy people
Trying to feed on what is mine
You've got to fill your hunger
And stop fucking with my mind
I know it's time to leave these places far behind
Where are all these feelings hiding?
Dancing in and out my mind
Burning up all that I long for
Feeding me till my decline
Where are you?
My soul is bleeding, I am searching
Am I blind?
All alone and bound forever
Trapped inside me for all time
To all these meaningless feelings
I can't deal with in my life
To all these greedy people
Trying to feed on what is mine
You've got to fill your hunger
And stop fucking with my mind
I know it's time to leave these places far behind
To all these meaningless feelings
I can't deal with in my life
To all these greedy people
Trying to feed on what is mine
You've got to fill your hunger
And stop fucking with my mind
I know it's time to leave these places far behind
Soon our lives will be erased
Do you think they will remember
Or will we just be replaced?
Oh, I wish that I could see
How I wish that I could fly
All the things that hang above me
To a place where I can cry
So, why can't it be?
No one hears because
Echoes back at me
No one's there
To all these meaningless feelings
I can't deal with in my life
To all these greedy people
Trying to feed on what is mine
You've got to fill your hunger
And stop fucking with my mind
I know it's time to leave these places far behind
You and me, we have no faces
They don't see us anymore
Without love as they had promised
And no faith for what's in store
Oh, I wish that I could see
How I wish that I could fly
All the things that hang above me
To a place where I can cry
So, why can't it be?
No one hears because
Echoes back at me
No one's there
To all these meaningless feelings
I can't deal with in my life
To all these greedy people
Trying to feed on what is mine
You've got to fill your hunger
And stop fucking with my mind
I know it's time to leave these places far behind
Where are all these feelings hiding?
Dancing in and out my mind
Burning up all that I long for
Feeding me till my decline
Where are you?
My soul is bleeding, I am searching
Am I blind?
All alone and bound forever
Trapped inside me for all time
To all these meaningless feelings
I can't deal with in my life
To all these greedy people
Trying to feed on what is mine
You've got to fill your hunger
And stop fucking with my mind
I know it's time to leave these places far behind
To all these meaningless feelings
I can't deal with in my life
To all these greedy people
Trying to feed on what is mine
You've got to fill your hunger
And stop fucking with my mind
I know it's time to leave these places far behind
Lyrics submitted by a scar in the sky
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I agree with most of what LordElfStone interpretation. Most of the album addresses issues such as depression and hate, and it is clever how it ended with that song. Jon singing all his pain and suffering yet he feels no one's there for him. This concept is repeated throughout a lot of KoRn's songs if you've noticed. "You and me..." is him talking to whoever's out there that can relate to what he sings about. Also, another good name for this song would be "Suicide Note" ("...leave these places far behind"). Maybe it's just me, but I've noticed that this song sounds somewhat like a letter. I look at this song in two different ways. One, a personal song for the fans out there that truly understand Jon. Two, kinda of what Life is Peachy posted about how posers fake and feed off his success, stealing his sound ("Echoes back at me..."). In this sense, this song kinda gives the impression that KoRn may retire soon ("I know it's time to leave these places far behind"), but that's a little far-fetched.