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.
Sitting for lunch in a square in this town
This town that I'm new to,
New fellow from my new town sat me down
And explained it to me:
How when I spin from him I spin from myself,
The center can double the speed of the crust.
Thank you, my treacherous friends.
I'm cringing for myself when I cringe for you.
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Hello, my treacherous friends,
And thank you for joining me here tonight.
I brought you all here to discuss, as I must,
How grateful I am
Hello, my treacherous friends,
And thank you for joining me here tonight.
I brought you all here to discuss, as I must,
How grateful I am for your insights.
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With regard to my newborn arachnid kids,
There's something we must discuss:
Perhaps we should sit them down and explain
How not to be saved.
Perhaps you could help me to demonstrate
How your center can keep up its sickening spin.
Thank you, my treacherous friends.
Perhaps for my children your surface will smile.
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Hello, my treacherous friends,
And thank you for joining me here tonight.
I brought you all here to discuss, as I must,
The fate of my children, the spiders.
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Hello, my treacherous friends,
And thank you for joining me here tonight.
I brought you all here to discuss, as I must,
How pleasant it's been
Hello, my treacherous friends,
And thank you for joining me here tonight.
I brought you all here to discuss, as I must,
How pleasant it's been this demise.
This town that I'm new to,
New fellow from my new town sat me down
And explained it to me:
How when I spin from him I spin from myself,
The center can double the speed of the crust.
Thank you, my treacherous friends.
I'm cringing for myself when I cringe for you.
Â
Hello, my treacherous friends,
And thank you for joining me here tonight.
I brought you all here to discuss, as I must,
How grateful I am
Hello, my treacherous friends,
And thank you for joining me here tonight.
I brought you all here to discuss, as I must,
How grateful I am for your insights.
Â
With regard to my newborn arachnid kids,
There's something we must discuss:
Perhaps we should sit them down and explain
How not to be saved.
Perhaps you could help me to demonstrate
How your center can keep up its sickening spin.
Thank you, my treacherous friends.
Perhaps for my children your surface will smile.
Â
Hello, my treacherous friends,
And thank you for joining me here tonight.
I brought you all here to discuss, as I must,
The fate of my children, the spiders.
Â
Hello, my treacherous friends,
And thank you for joining me here tonight.
I brought you all here to discuss, as I must,
How pleasant it's been
Hello, my treacherous friends,
And thank you for joining me here tonight.
I brought you all here to discuss, as I must,
How pleasant it's been this demise.
Lyrics submitted by qshapadooy
Hello, My Treacherous Friends Lyrics as written by Damian Kulash
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Well, here we go again. Time for another story having to do with my old gaming days.
Eventually, when you play any game for long enough, and you have heavily invested characters with backgrounds and little story lines to go with them, you start developing soundtracks for them, as well. This one dates back to my days playing "City of Heroes", or, more specifically, "City of Villains". I had written up a villain that was supposed to be in cahoots with another friend's villain. The one that I wrote up was called "Donovan", and the one my fried wrote up was named "Ethan". Donovan was told by Ethan (once he found Donovan) that it was DONOVAN who drove the van that the two escaped with, because Donovan was suffering a severe case of amnesia.
This, of course, was the plan all along. While being patterned off of designs from "Forward Motion Laboratories", which was completely bought out by Crey Biotech, neither Donovan not Ethan were designed at ALL by "Forward Motion Laboratories", but rather by Crey Biotech... and mostly to try to track down one of the Forward Motion designs that was still in the Rogue Isles. Donovan and Ethan aren't even their real NAMES: they're FRAGMP-001dC and FRAGMP-001eC, respectively, and are otherwise known as "Delta" and "Epsilon". "Donovan" was designed from creation to have a faulty memory; he knows how to eat, sleep, speak, and otherwise function, but doesn't remember much more past that. "Ethan", however, was given a full set of programming, and was tested to ensure his unwavering loyalty to Crey Biotech before the two of them "busted out". Ethan, of course, tells Donovan than they're brothers, demanded real names (at least Ethan told Donovan this, amongst other lies), and eventually just broke out and escaped. He was right next to a familiar looking, though unmarked van, and just believed Ethan was telling the truth.
How does THIS song fit into Donovan's playlist? Well, he's a VILLAIN working in the Rogue Isles, which is ruled by Lord Recluse, and often ends up working alongside his Arachnos troops... or, in Donovan's eyes, his "new arachnid kids", his "spiders".