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.
Let me tell ya little story about my little problem
How I lost my friend and I really really miss him
I don't feel the same
He left one day and will never ever come back
My friend is manhood and that is what I lack
But I don't know who to blame
So my wife told you that she didn't want any children
She's just jealous about my other girlfriend
Now I see her gloat (here diagonally)
My doctor did the job cause he needed the money
Now I find that my wife is his brand new honey
On his brand new boat
All because I screw and I get caught
Take my tubes and slice em and then you tie em in a knot
This is your vasectomy, this is your vasectomy, this is your vasectomy, this is your vasectomy....
In by morning and out by noon
To have my balls scooped out with a grapefruit spoon
Now my doctor says that I can't lift heavy boxes
Cause he cut too far, all the way to up to my coccyx
Shave my balls, make sure that i'm clean-dus
Take your knife and you set it on my penis
Doctor, doctor, you're gonna make me sick
Your scalpel is smiling and it's looking at my dick
You de-activated my private parts
I used to jizz like a geyser and now i'm feeling parched
Why oh why did you have to make me sterile
Now my loins are floating in a barrel
This is your vasectomy, this is your vasectomy, this is your vasectomy, this is your vasectomy....
Because of the wound my doctor forged, I'm unable to loom, weave, and forge
I can't spit my seed, reap my crop or spawn
My dog's chewing on my dick in the front lawn
I'm having engine trouble, a tube traffic jam
Girls ignore me because I don't have a gonad
Inability to produce, propagate, fertilize
Cut and chop, mince and clog, snip and save, hash and dice
Stop and snag, slit and clip, sever, splice, and shear
I'm such an anti-man, I'll need a pap-smear
Separate, lacerate, sick to my stomach because I just ate
This is your vasectomy, this is your vasectomy, this is your vasectomy, this is your vasectomy....
Nationalism, racism, it's all just separatism
all the fear gonna make me have a feargasm
Givin' it up for societal vascetomy
Got to give it up for societal vasectomy
Ignorance and fear, the consummate in hatred
Don't be callin me willy because my name, it ain't alfred
What's the difference? Where's the vas-deferens?
What's the difference? Where's the vas-deferens?
What's the difference? Where's the vas-deferens?
There ain't no difference, because...
This is your vasectomy, this is your vasectomy, this is your vasectomy, this is your vasectomy....
How I lost my friend and I really really miss him
I don't feel the same
He left one day and will never ever come back
My friend is manhood and that is what I lack
But I don't know who to blame
So my wife told you that she didn't want any children
She's just jealous about my other girlfriend
Now I see her gloat (here diagonally)
My doctor did the job cause he needed the money
Now I find that my wife is his brand new honey
On his brand new boat
All because I screw and I get caught
Take my tubes and slice em and then you tie em in a knot
This is your vasectomy, this is your vasectomy, this is your vasectomy, this is your vasectomy....
In by morning and out by noon
To have my balls scooped out with a grapefruit spoon
Now my doctor says that I can't lift heavy boxes
Cause he cut too far, all the way to up to my coccyx
Shave my balls, make sure that i'm clean-dus
Take your knife and you set it on my penis
Doctor, doctor, you're gonna make me sick
Your scalpel is smiling and it's looking at my dick
You de-activated my private parts
I used to jizz like a geyser and now i'm feeling parched
Why oh why did you have to make me sterile
Now my loins are floating in a barrel
This is your vasectomy, this is your vasectomy, this is your vasectomy, this is your vasectomy....
Because of the wound my doctor forged, I'm unable to loom, weave, and forge
I can't spit my seed, reap my crop or spawn
My dog's chewing on my dick in the front lawn
I'm having engine trouble, a tube traffic jam
Girls ignore me because I don't have a gonad
Inability to produce, propagate, fertilize
Cut and chop, mince and clog, snip and save, hash and dice
Stop and snag, slit and clip, sever, splice, and shear
I'm such an anti-man, I'll need a pap-smear
Separate, lacerate, sick to my stomach because I just ate
This is your vasectomy, this is your vasectomy, this is your vasectomy, this is your vasectomy....
Nationalism, racism, it's all just separatism
all the fear gonna make me have a feargasm
Givin' it up for societal vascetomy
Got to give it up for societal vasectomy
Ignorance and fear, the consummate in hatred
Don't be callin me willy because my name, it ain't alfred
What's the difference? Where's the vas-deferens?
What's the difference? Where's the vas-deferens?
What's the difference? Where's the vas-deferens?
There ain't no difference, because...
This is your vasectomy, this is your vasectomy, this is your vasectomy, this is your vasectomy....
Lyrics submitted by jadis96
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Could never understand all these lyrics even after a hundred listens. They're damn funny. And who would have thunk there's a whole sociopolitical statement in this song? (Societal vasectomy...)