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 kill all of the beautiful things
I kill all of the beautiful things
I kill all of the beautiful things
To keep me alive
I'm a face, I'm a name
I'm nothing like you are
How you love, just enough
So cunning, why am I still breathing?
So bite your tongue before you speak
'Cause there's no one saying anything
When all I want is something new
To make me numb
I kill all of the beautiful things
To keep me alive in a world so cold
I kill all of the beautiful things
To help me survive, can you save my soul?
'Cause I'm on my hands and knees
Praying up to nothing
All of the beautiful things
I kill all of the beautiful things
I'm asleep, I'm awake
I'm not here, am I dreaming?
Of a life with a cure
For this place, oh it's picture perfect
I bite my tongue before I speak
'Cause there's no point in saying anything
We're so far gone, it's nothing new
So make me numb
I kill all of the beautiful things
To keep me alive in a world so cold
I kill all of the beautiful things
To help me survive, can you save my soul?
'Cause I'm on my hands and knees
Praying up to nothing
All of the beautiful things
I kill all the beautiful things
All of the beautiful things
So leave me in silence, it holds me, I'm dying
I hate this, I hate this whole thing
I kill all pf the beautiful things
I kill all of the beautiful things
I kill all of the beautiful things
To keep me alive in a world so cold
I kill all of the beautiful things
To help me survive, can you save my soul?
'Cause I'm on my hands and knees
Praying up to nothing
All of the beautiful things
I kill all of the beautiful things
I kill all of the beautiful things
I kill all of the beautiful things
All of the beautiful things
To keep me alive
I kill all of the beautiful things
I kill all of the beautiful things
To keep me alive
I'm a face, I'm a name
I'm nothing like you are
How you love, just enough
So cunning, why am I still breathing?
So bite your tongue before you speak
'Cause there's no one saying anything
When all I want is something new
To make me numb
I kill all of the beautiful things
To keep me alive in a world so cold
I kill all of the beautiful things
To help me survive, can you save my soul?
'Cause I'm on my hands and knees
Praying up to nothing
All of the beautiful things
I kill all of the beautiful things
I'm asleep, I'm awake
I'm not here, am I dreaming?
Of a life with a cure
For this place, oh it's picture perfect
I bite my tongue before I speak
'Cause there's no point in saying anything
We're so far gone, it's nothing new
So make me numb
I kill all of the beautiful things
To keep me alive in a world so cold
I kill all of the beautiful things
To help me survive, can you save my soul?
'Cause I'm on my hands and knees
Praying up to nothing
All of the beautiful things
I kill all the beautiful things
All of the beautiful things
So leave me in silence, it holds me, I'm dying
I hate this, I hate this whole thing
I kill all pf the beautiful things
I kill all of the beautiful things
I kill all of the beautiful things
To keep me alive in a world so cold
I kill all of the beautiful things
To help me survive, can you save my soul?
'Cause I'm on my hands and knees
Praying up to nothing
All of the beautiful things
I kill all of the beautiful things
I kill all of the beautiful things
I kill all of the beautiful things
All of the beautiful things
To keep me alive
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
Kill Beautiful Things Lyrics as written by David Ludlow Alex Adamcik
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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