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.
Couldn't shake the cold away
A year alone, stock still and stuck in snow
Two black eyes, this phony smile
My senses dead, my body bent in ice
Then you took off your winter clothes
And you leaned against with your eager innocence
My brittle knotted wrists twitched
Reaching out for it
When we're running from the hospital, don't stop. don't stop.
Though the guards'll call, and the cops'll come, don't stop. don't stop.
They do not know us. we don't stop because of our love. our love.
And we don't need their law, like the paper it's written on, it will fade. it will melt away.
Like snow, it runs to the river below
A year alone, stock still and stuck in snow
Two black eyes, this phony smile
My senses dead, my body bent in ice
Then you took off your winter clothes
And you leaned against with your eager innocence
My brittle knotted wrists twitched
Reaching out for it
When we're running from the hospital, don't stop. don't stop.
Though the guards'll call, and the cops'll come, don't stop. don't stop.
They do not know us. we don't stop because of our love. our love.
And we don't need their law, like the paper it's written on, it will fade. it will melt away.
Like snow, it runs to the river below
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Parson Brown (Upirn Gaangutuq Iqalunni) Lyrics as written by Timothy John Baker
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A very dark song. A metaphorical 'snowman' has his dull senses awakened by the innocent affections of a child. The dark reality is mostly only hinted at through the musical arrangement and the title.
The ending - "we don't need their law, like the paper it's written on, it will fade. it will melt away. like snow, it runs to the river below" - acknowledges that the intimate actions are illegal. The 'snowman' is a child molester.
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