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.
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Everybody's gonna love today
Gonna love today, gonna love today
Everybody's gonna love today, gonna love today
Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to
Love, love me, love, love me, love, love
I've been crying for so long
Fighting tears just to carry on
But now, but now, it's gone away
Hey, girl, why can't you carry on? (Carry on)
Is it 'cause you're just like your mother (like your mother)
A little tight, like to tease for fun? (tease for fun)
Well, you ain't gonna tease no other
Gonna make you a lover
Everybody's gonna love today
Love today, love today
Everybody's gonna love today
Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to
Love, love me, love, love me, love, love
Girl in the groove with the big bust on
Big bust on, big bust on
Wait 'til your mama and your papa's gone
Papa's gone
Mama, mama, papa, shock, shock me
Shock, shock me, shock, shock
Said everybody's gonna love today
Gonna love today, gonna love today
I said
Everybody's gonna love today, gonna love today (everybody)
Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to (you've got to)
Love, love me, love, love me, love, love
Carolina sits on '95
Give her a dollar and she'll make you smile
Hook her, book her, nook her, walk away
Girl, dresses like a kid for fun (kid for fun)
Licks her lips like they're something other (something other)
Tries to tell you life has just begun (jus begun)
But you know she's getting something other
Than the love from her mother
Everybody's gonna love today
Love today, love today
Everybody's gonna love today
Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to
Love, love me, love, love me, love, love
Girl, in the groove with the big bust on
Big bust on, big bust on
Wait 'til your mama and your papa's gone
Papa's gone
Mama, mama, papa, shock, shock me
Shock, shock me, shock, shock
I said
Everybody's gonna love today
Gonna love today, gonna love today (hey)
I said
Everybody's gonna love today
Gonna love today
Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to (got to)
Love, love me, love, love me, love, love
Doom da da di da di
Doom da da di da di
Doom da da di da di
Doom da da di da di
Doom da da di da di
Doom da da di da di
Doom da da di da di
Doom da da di da di
Everybody's gonna love today (doom da da di da di)
Gonna love today, gonna love today (doom da da di da di)
Everybody's gonna love today, gonna love today (doom da da di da di)
Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to (doom da da di da di)
Love, love me, love, love me, love, love (doom da da di da di, doom da da di da di)
Doom da da di da di
Doom da da di da di
Doom da da di da di
Doom da da di da di
Doom da da di da di
Doom da da di da di
Doom da da di da di
Doom da da di da di
Doom da da di da di
Everybody's gonna love today
Gonna love today, gonna love today
Everybody's gonna love today, gonna love today
Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to
Love, love me, love, love me, love, love
I've been crying for so long
Fighting tears just to carry on
But now, but now, it's gone away
Hey, girl, why can't you carry on? (Carry on)
Is it 'cause you're just like your mother (like your mother)
A little tight, like to tease for fun? (tease for fun)
Well, you ain't gonna tease no other
Gonna make you a lover
Everybody's gonna love today
Love today, love today
Everybody's gonna love today
Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to
Love, love me, love, love me, love, love
Girl in the groove with the big bust on
Big bust on, big bust on
Wait 'til your mama and your papa's gone
Papa's gone
Mama, mama, papa, shock, shock me
Shock, shock me, shock, shock
Said everybody's gonna love today
Gonna love today, gonna love today
I said
Everybody's gonna love today, gonna love today (everybody)
Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to (you've got to)
Love, love me, love, love me, love, love
Carolina sits on '95
Give her a dollar and she'll make you smile
Hook her, book her, nook her, walk away
Girl, dresses like a kid for fun (kid for fun)
Licks her lips like they're something other (something other)
Tries to tell you life has just begun (jus begun)
But you know she's getting something other
Than the love from her mother
Everybody's gonna love today
Love today, love today
Everybody's gonna love today
Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to
Love, love me, love, love me, love, love
Girl, in the groove with the big bust on
Big bust on, big bust on
Wait 'til your mama and your papa's gone
Papa's gone
Mama, mama, papa, shock, shock me
Shock, shock me, shock, shock
I said
Everybody's gonna love today
Gonna love today, gonna love today (hey)
I said
Everybody's gonna love today
Gonna love today
Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to (got to)
Love, love me, love, love me, love, love
Doom da da di da di
Doom da da di da di
Doom da da di da di
Doom da da di da di
Doom da da di da di
Doom da da di da di
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Doom da da di da di
Everybody's gonna love today (doom da da di da di)
Gonna love today, gonna love today (doom da da di da di)
Everybody's gonna love today, gonna love today (doom da da di da di)
Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to (doom da da di da di)
Love, love me, love, love me, love, love (doom da da di da di, doom da da di da di)
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