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.
It's OK
To be safe
'Cause I'm on top
Of my game
But I'm losing control
Falling by the wayside
Dive right in
Take a drink
Enter it
Try and win
Make sure you call
Before I leave
Keep on top
Of the game
I'm losing control
Falling by the wayside
It's ok
To be safe
To be safe
'Cause I'm on top
Of my game
But I'm losing control
Falling by the wayside
Dive right in
Take a drink
Enter it
Try and win
Make sure you call
Before I leave
Keep on top
Of the game
I'm losing control
Falling by the wayside
It's ok
To be safe
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I'm in love with this song- heard it on one of my favorite shows "The 4400" and thank God! From my point of view, this song is all about giving into your inhibitions. It's okay to be safe- but you can venture out if you want to...because you can. Being on top of your game, on top of the world, it becomes easy to stray away, a little or a lot. All of a sudden your losing control and diving in to what you promised yourself you wouldn't.
He's on top becauze he's played it safe all along, and it's okay to do it that way. But, if you do the same thing, all day, everyday, you die a little each day inside. And he has died inside so that is why he is losing control. Or maybe it's just a flashback of his crappy life, and he regrets doing the same safe thing day after day. HE should've taken risks.
This song is excellent! I can't even really detail the emotion it evokes...not melancholy and not resigned...help me out..I love it!
Light summer rain in the afternoon tturns into a downpour....that's what this song is
i think has to be deeper than a casino Its much sadder much more devistating than that Its like falling off a cliff losing your grip of a certain peice of reality.
I think that the middle of this album (Moth to Light for the Deadvine) is a narration of a distant love affair. By distant, I mean that the parties involved aren't in any position to meld their lives together, but still strongly desire each other. This song relates to that because he is finding himself "playing it safe" by not forgetting all that can go wrong and taking the leap for love. It is slowly driving him insane, and he is finding it harder all the time to make the choices that are safest, without feeling like he is missing out on something spectacular.
If you look at the slimpliest meaning for this song, it might be about a compulsive player.
Dive right in --> at the casino Take a drink --> drink alcool at the casino Enter it --> money in the machine Try and win --> try, but you can lose control...
When gambling takes the control of your life !
But i wish it has a deepest meaning... I don't know...