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.
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh
We build our dreams from the ashes of your nightmares
Carry our father's sins from the cradle to the grave
We blaze our path through the darkness that you left us in
Now we ride in the belly of the beast
We are the diamonds that choose to stay coal
A generation born to witness the end of the world
Against the grain
Against the odds
Against the world
Forever the underdogs
We are the bastard sons
We are the ones that refused to grow cold
We are the thorn in your side
We are the thieves in the night
And we're coming to take what's ours
No regrets
No regrets we inherit the sins of the fathers
Now reap the vengeance
No regrets We inherit the sins of the fathers
Now reap the vengeance
Go
From the ashes of your nightmare
From the cradle to the grave
We blaze our path through the darkness that you left us in
Now we ride in the belly of the beast
We are the diamonds that choose to stay coal
A generation born to witness the end of the world
Born to witness the end of the world
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Viva the underdogs
Viva the underdogs
Viva the underdogs
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Viva the underdogs
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Viva the underdogs
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Viva the underdogs
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Viva the underdogs
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh
We build our dreams from the ashes of your nightmares
Carry our father's sins from the cradle to the grave
We blaze our path through the darkness that you left us in
Now we ride in the belly of the beast
We are the diamonds that choose to stay coal
A generation born to witness the end of the world
Against the grain
Against the odds
Against the world
Forever the underdogs
We are the bastard sons
We are the ones that refused to grow cold
We are the thorn in your side
We are the thieves in the night
And we're coming to take what's ours
No regrets
No regrets we inherit the sins of the fathers
Now reap the vengeance
No regrets We inherit the sins of the fathers
Now reap the vengeance
Go
From the ashes of your nightmare
From the cradle to the grave
We blaze our path through the darkness that you left us in
Now we ride in the belly of the beast
We are the diamonds that choose to stay coal
A generation born to witness the end of the world
Born to witness the end of the world
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Viva the underdogs
Viva the underdogs
Viva the underdogs
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Viva the underdogs
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Viva the underdogs
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Viva the underdogs
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Viva the underdogs
Lyrics submitted by AlexAsura, edited by BlueDiamondx3
Wild Eyes Lyrics as written by Jeffrey Cleve Ling Benjamin Michael Gordon
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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To me this just defines our so called generation x y or whatever stupid label they put on it. Refusing to do what is "expected" of us. Born to have so much potential in the older generations eyes but refuse to be defined by them. We blaze our own path because it is our world now which has been dumped on us and expected to clean up the mess they created of it.