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.
I'm trying to create something that's not there
A spark I saw. A bomb is really just a means to an end
I was just so happy to be out of my shell again,
don't think that I really cared for who or what
I'll just have to keep myself shut
If you're not ready, you're not ready
Please stop acting like you are
How could I know
that everything you say are lies about devotion and desire?
I know the spark inside your eyes
was just the match I used to set myself on fire
My mouth's shooting blanks
This situation's unbearable,
I've gotten vulnerable
Now anyone is free to waltz right in
My temple's been invaded
and there's nobody guarding it
All over this lonely life,
but what's so wrong with being all alone?
Alone's the only way I've ever known
If you're not ready, you're not ready
Please stop acting like you are
How could I know
that everything you say are lies about devotion and desire?
I know the spark inside your eyes
was just the match I used to set myself on fire
I'm pleading cause this kills and it's still bleeding
My darling I'm taking my life back to start healing
How could I know
that everything you say are lies about devotion and desire?
I know the spark inside your eyes
was just the match I used to set myself on fire
A spark I saw. A bomb is really just a means to an end
I was just so happy to be out of my shell again,
don't think that I really cared for who or what
I'll just have to keep myself shut
If you're not ready, you're not ready
Please stop acting like you are
How could I know
that everything you say are lies about devotion and desire?
I know the spark inside your eyes
was just the match I used to set myself on fire
My mouth's shooting blanks
This situation's unbearable,
I've gotten vulnerable
Now anyone is free to waltz right in
My temple's been invaded
and there's nobody guarding it
All over this lonely life,
but what's so wrong with being all alone?
Alone's the only way I've ever known
If you're not ready, you're not ready
Please stop acting like you are
How could I know
that everything you say are lies about devotion and desire?
I know the spark inside your eyes
was just the match I used to set myself on fire
I'm pleading cause this kills and it's still bleeding
My darling I'm taking my life back to start healing
How could I know
that everything you say are lies about devotion and desire?
I know the spark inside your eyes
was just the match I used to set myself on fire
Lyrics submitted by KatieTheMofo, edited by Tricality
Devotion and Desire Lyrics as written by Jack A O'shea Anthony S Raneri
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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RIP Beatz.
First off this whole album is amazing. To me this song means that he's tired of being alone and even though he knows it's not going to work with this girl, he's going to try everything to keep it going. And the girl is playing along, I guess she's trying not to hurt him. But in the end that hurts him more because he's put himself out there only to get hurt.
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"I know the spark inside your eyes was just the match I used to set myself on fire. "
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i love this song sooooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!! cya im off to comment on we'll be ok! lol
and btw i totally agree with you blazinboarder. although your name is weird! lol xxxxxxxxxxx
Sometimes passion and love can consume us like fire. THe singer wants that so bad he's imagining it. He in love wiht a girl and over anylizing so much it's madening. The Video for this kicks ass!!