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.
Here you die in obscurity
Over another dark February
And then moon certainty
When fingers blow the wind to me
My shivering sighs blurts a shadow
For a
The frigid leaden sky
Remains immobile, petrified
I attempt to seek out the source
Of this ancient curse
By the temple gods
Oh moon keeps on its course
Without being stalked by the cries of dogs
Oh my love I'm freezing
In my marble dressing gown
Cold, the oldest season
Hold me when the sun goes down
As this hesitant razor deepen
Under a blanket a cried when sleeping
He read a begins
With the tears that are wept are kept
For safe-keeping
They say it will call to an end
Then all things will begin again
In this eggshell atmosphere, which is so very prim
Twenty thousand million copper needles picking
My virginity has been eclipsed
By the severity of my blue trembling lips
locked my heart at dusk
I will it open it again when the light comes in
Oh my love I'm freezing
In my marble dressing gown
Cold, the oldest season
Hold me when the sun goes down
Oh my love I'm freezing
In my marble dressing gown
Cold, the oldest season
Hold me when the sun goes down
Over another dark February
And then moon certainty
When fingers blow the wind to me
My shivering sighs blurts a shadow
For a
The frigid leaden sky
Remains immobile, petrified
I attempt to seek out the source
Of this ancient curse
By the temple gods
Oh moon keeps on its course
Without being stalked by the cries of dogs
Oh my love I'm freezing
In my marble dressing gown
Cold, the oldest season
Hold me when the sun goes down
As this hesitant razor deepen
Under a blanket a cried when sleeping
He read a begins
With the tears that are wept are kept
For safe-keeping
They say it will call to an end
Then all things will begin again
In this eggshell atmosphere, which is so very prim
Twenty thousand million copper needles picking
My virginity has been eclipsed
By the severity of my blue trembling lips
locked my heart at dusk
I will it open it again when the light comes in
Oh my love I'm freezing
In my marble dressing gown
Cold, the oldest season
Hold me when the sun goes down
Oh my love I'm freezing
In my marble dressing gown
Cold, the oldest season
Hold me when the sun goes down
Lyrics submitted by Invincible500
Dark February Lyrics as written by Melora Creager
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