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.
Welcome to the fucking heart
Probably you won't feel anything
You're basically brain washed
Is that how you really feel?
Do you want to see someone smiling when you are tricking yourself?
You have lots a fucking words that
Someone used lined up in front of you
And you listen to those words with no doubt
And the venue is filled up with
Irritated sweat and mother fucking tears
Remove it before I drown
Remove it before I drown
I got a problem with the fucking world like that
Pushing my self down to get famous
Brain washed by others to get famous
Sing for the fame
You are already done at the time
You are saying that you want to be famous
Appropriate words
其処には何も生まれはしない
希望も涙も痛みも
Is that how you really feel?
Do you want to see someone smiling when you are tricking yourself?
You have lots a fucking words that
Someone used lined up in front of you
And you listen to those words with no doubt
And the venue is filled up with
Irritated sweat and mother fucking tears
This is not the world I wanted
You are saying that you want to be famous
Appropriate words
其処には何も生まれはしない
希望も涙も痛みも
流して本当の涙を
聞かせて本当の声を
"此処"で見せて
Welcome to my motherfucking heart
Probably you won't feel anything
You're basically brain washed
Welcome to my motherfucking heart
Probably you won't feel anything
You're basically brain washed
Though you fucked up
'Cause you lost and brain washed
I'm telling you, you fucked up
'Cause you way fucked up
Don't fucking disturb me
Don't fucking disturb me
Don't disturb me
Appropriate words
其処には何も生まれはしない
希望も涙も痛みも
This world makes me sad
This world makes me sad
壊して
Dope people disappears and shitty people grows
This is not the fucking world I wanted
This is not the fucking music I wanted
This is not the world I wanted
This is not the music I wanted
Probably you won't feel anything
You're basically brain washed
Is that how you really feel?
Do you want to see someone smiling when you are tricking yourself?
You have lots a fucking words that
Someone used lined up in front of you
And you listen to those words with no doubt
And the venue is filled up with
Irritated sweat and mother fucking tears
Remove it before I drown
Remove it before I drown
I got a problem with the fucking world like that
Pushing my self down to get famous
Brain washed by others to get famous
Sing for the fame
You are already done at the time
You are saying that you want to be famous
Appropriate words
其処には何も生まれはしない
希望も涙も痛みも
Is that how you really feel?
Do you want to see someone smiling when you are tricking yourself?
You have lots a fucking words that
Someone used lined up in front of you
And you listen to those words with no doubt
And the venue is filled up with
Irritated sweat and mother fucking tears
This is not the world I wanted
You are saying that you want to be famous
Appropriate words
其処には何も生まれはしない
希望も涙も痛みも
流して本当の涙を
聞かせて本当の声を
"此処"で見せて
Welcome to my motherfucking heart
Probably you won't feel anything
You're basically brain washed
Welcome to my motherfucking heart
Probably you won't feel anything
You're basically brain washed
Though you fucked up
'Cause you lost and brain washed
I'm telling you, you fucked up
'Cause you way fucked up
Don't fucking disturb me
Don't fucking disturb me
Don't disturb me
Appropriate words
其処には何も生まれはしない
希望も涙も痛みも
This world makes me sad
This world makes me sad
壊して
Dope people disappears and shitty people grows
This is not the fucking world I wanted
This is not the fucking music I wanted
This is not the world I wanted
This is not the music I wanted
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
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