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.
(Like murder)
Stoned I awoke in your temple
To blackness above you
And death beside me
(Where)
Kitchen knives conspire
Razor blades make bloodless love
(Like murder)
The ghost of a pale girl is solemnly following me
Will she follow me into the sea?
I feel the flowers screaming to consume you
(Like murder)
Earth and sky your cradle, earth and sky entomb you
And death beside me
I burrow through the dust in your skull
But I cannot seem to find your soul
Bloodless and numb, we orbit the sun
Hungry, will this pale thing follow me into the sea
On the cold side of her face, the reptiles awake
Locusts swarm from open mouths that sing thy kingdom come
While blackness hums
Nothing is true and I'm tired of your sad today
You're screaming because there's nothing left for you to say
Bloodless and numb, we orbit the sun
Hungry, will this pale thing follow me into the sea
Stoned I awoke in your temple
To blackness above you
And death beside me
(Where)
Kitchen knives conspire
Razor blades make bloodless love
(Like murder)
Stoned I awoke in your temple
To blackness above you
And death beside me
(Where)
Kitchen knives conspire
Razor blades make bloodless love
(Like murder)
The ghost of a pale girl is solemnly following me
Will she follow me into the sea?
I feel the flowers screaming to consume you
(Like murder)
Earth and sky your cradle, earth and sky entomb you
And death beside me
I burrow through the dust in your skull
But I cannot seem to find your soul
Bloodless and numb, we orbit the sun
Hungry, will this pale thing follow me into the sea
On the cold side of her face, the reptiles awake
Locusts swarm from open mouths that sing thy kingdom come
While blackness hums
Nothing is true and I'm tired of your sad today
You're screaming because there's nothing left for you to say
Bloodless and numb, we orbit the sun
Hungry, will this pale thing follow me into the sea
Stoned I awoke in your temple
To blackness above you
And death beside me
(Where)
Kitchen knives conspire
Razor blades make bloodless love
(Like murder)
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Stoned I awoke in your temple to blackness above you... He was high and realized his girl was a dope whore while he was having sex with her.... Where kitchen knives conspire and razor blades make bloodless love... He's also in a dope house... The ghost of a pale girl following him is his strung out girl that he no longer feels attached to since this realization... He knows she wants his drugs so she follows him, but would she go as far as to follow him into the sea... He realizes that she is destined to o.d. And die... The flowers scream to consume you... And death beside me... He has the drugs... He tries to have actual conversation to connect with her and put the depressing thoughts behind him... But she seems soulless to him and hungry for dope... She starts throwing a fit for dope... The reptile aka venomous snake within her becomes obvious...they fight ....locusts...the humming blackness is their itch to get high... She screams at him until she gets what she wants, a fix....he gives in they get high again... Cold toward each other and numb to the world they continue their day to day relationship.... Bloodless and numb they orbit the sun... How far will it go... How long will they stay together repeating the bullshit... He has the same realization again as he sees it continue.... Stoned he awoke... Again