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.
Empire
Empire
Empire
Empire
Feeling like today is the day
You better make a move
Up and out and afraid
You better execute
Through the city, decayed
The people watching you
Get the fuck out the way
'Cause they could get it too
Lord as your witness
You just don't need no forgiveness
Don't know who's next on your hit list
You just handle your business
Suicidal, I say
You're bloody, tied away
Don't give a fuck if they hate you
You're the god that they pray to
Heavy is the head that wears the crown of thorns
My empire, my empire
Heavy is the head that wears the crown of thorns
My empire, my empire
I'm all alone with my solitary violence
God, I wanna sleep, but I can't close my eyelids
Back to the streets, 'cause we know all the right kids
Built this fucking city on the backs of the white pricks
So fucking cold
Another death sentence another soul sold
It's all I know
I'm gonna die fast, bitch, you can die slow
I'm a dead man, a fucking dead man walking
I blew my head up, but he kept on talking
I saw myself die and I kept on watching
Went straight to Heaven, but I kept on knocking
(Kept on knocking)
Heavy is the head that wears the crown of thorns
My empire, my empire
Heavy is the head that wears the crown of thorns
My empire, my empire
(Lord as your witness
You just don't need no forgiveness
Don't know who's next on your hit list
You just handle your business)
My empire, my empire
(Suicidal, I say
You're bloody, tied away
Don't give a fuck if they hate you
You're the god that they pray to)
My empire, my empire
I'm a storm without a warning
The black clouds that are forming
I turn the river red
I am deliverance
I'm a storm without a warning
The black clouds that are forming
I turn the river red
I am deliverance
Heavy is the head that wears the crown of thorns
My empire, my empire
Heavy is the head that wears the crown of thorns
My empire, my empire
(Lord as your witness
You just don't need no forgiveness
Don't know who's next on your hit list
You just handle your business)
My empire, my empire
(Suicidal, I say
You're bloody, tied away
Don't give a fuck if they hate you
You're the god that they pray to)
My empire, my empire
Empire
Empire
Empire
Feeling like today is the day
You better make a move
Up and out and afraid
You better execute
Through the city, decayed
The people watching you
Get the fuck out the way
'Cause they could get it too
Lord as your witness
You just don't need no forgiveness
Don't know who's next on your hit list
You just handle your business
Suicidal, I say
You're bloody, tied away
Don't give a fuck if they hate you
You're the god that they pray to
Heavy is the head that wears the crown of thorns
My empire, my empire
Heavy is the head that wears the crown of thorns
My empire, my empire
I'm all alone with my solitary violence
God, I wanna sleep, but I can't close my eyelids
Back to the streets, 'cause we know all the right kids
Built this fucking city on the backs of the white pricks
So fucking cold
Another death sentence another soul sold
It's all I know
I'm gonna die fast, bitch, you can die slow
I'm a dead man, a fucking dead man walking
I blew my head up, but he kept on talking
I saw myself die and I kept on watching
Went straight to Heaven, but I kept on knocking
(Kept on knocking)
Heavy is the head that wears the crown of thorns
My empire, my empire
Heavy is the head that wears the crown of thorns
My empire, my empire
(Lord as your witness
You just don't need no forgiveness
Don't know who's next on your hit list
You just handle your business)
My empire, my empire
(Suicidal, I say
You're bloody, tied away
Don't give a fuck if they hate you
You're the god that they pray to)
My empire, my empire
I'm a storm without a warning
The black clouds that are forming
I turn the river red
I am deliverance
I'm a storm without a warning
The black clouds that are forming
I turn the river red
I am deliverance
Heavy is the head that wears the crown of thorns
My empire, my empire
Heavy is the head that wears the crown of thorns
My empire, my empire
(Lord as your witness
You just don't need no forgiveness
Don't know who's next on your hit list
You just handle your business)
My empire, my empire
(Suicidal, I say
You're bloody, tied away
Don't give a fuck if they hate you
You're the god that they pray to)
My empire, my empire
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Empire Lyrics as written by Dylan Peter Alvarez Daniel Murillo
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Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
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