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.
The prosthetic limbs of social norms are beating us today
The burdens we all must hide, or pay for it
Transgressions aside
Be a martyr for life
And everything will be fucking fine
Transgressions aside
Having the time of our lives
Now pay for it and you'll savor every last drop
Two as one
Fodder for the slaughterhouse
Quartered on the killing floor
You and I
Are searching for something beyond this social condition
Fill the ballot and give our permission
Over and over again and again
Sort your condition
Get down with submission
Sort your condition
For submission
Sort your condition, baby
Get down with submission
Searching for something beyond this social condition
Cast your vote and then move aside
Tradition of submission starting from the womb
You better watch what you say
They always know what's best though
Conditioned by their vision
Sinking in our tombs
The pressure is always there
We know they want what's best though
Of course they do
I think it's time to stop pointing fingers
And start looking inward, oh
Measure the cases 'cause it's not right
Just to generalize
Start staring down your life
Maybe you'll see things much clearer
Imploring what's down in your mind
To make an appearance
Sort your condition
Sort your condition
Throw it in remission
Throw it aside
Tradition of submission starting from the womb
You better watch what you say
They always know what's best though
Conditioned by their vision
Sinking in our tombs
The pressure is always there
We know they want what's best though
Will it ever be?
Will we ever live in honesty?
'Cause we're falling apart, falling apart, you and I
Will it ever be?
Will we ever live another day in honesty?
'Cause we're falling apart, right from the start, you and I
Will it ever be?
Will we ever live in honesty? (Honesty)
'Cause we're falling apart, falling apart, you and I (oh)
Will it ever be?
Will we ever live another day in honesty? (Honesty)
'Cause we're falling apart, right from the start, you and I (oh)
So paint that picture to sleep at night
No regard for another's life
We'll be just fine (oh)
So paint that picture to sleep at night (oh)
No regard for another's life (oh)
We'll be just fine (you and I)
The burdens we all must hide, or pay for it
Transgressions aside
Be a martyr for life
And everything will be fucking fine
Transgressions aside
Having the time of our lives
Now pay for it and you'll savor every last drop
Two as one
Fodder for the slaughterhouse
Quartered on the killing floor
You and I
Are searching for something beyond this social condition
Fill the ballot and give our permission
Over and over again and again
Sort your condition
Get down with submission
Sort your condition
For submission
Sort your condition, baby
Get down with submission
Searching for something beyond this social condition
Cast your vote and then move aside
Tradition of submission starting from the womb
You better watch what you say
They always know what's best though
Conditioned by their vision
Sinking in our tombs
The pressure is always there
We know they want what's best though
Of course they do
I think it's time to stop pointing fingers
And start looking inward, oh
Measure the cases 'cause it's not right
Just to generalize
Start staring down your life
Maybe you'll see things much clearer
Imploring what's down in your mind
To make an appearance
Sort your condition
Sort your condition
Throw it in remission
Throw it aside
Tradition of submission starting from the womb
You better watch what you say
They always know what's best though
Conditioned by their vision
Sinking in our tombs
The pressure is always there
We know they want what's best though
Will it ever be?
Will we ever live in honesty?
'Cause we're falling apart, falling apart, you and I
Will it ever be?
Will we ever live another day in honesty?
'Cause we're falling apart, right from the start, you and I
Will it ever be?
Will we ever live in honesty? (Honesty)
'Cause we're falling apart, falling apart, you and I (oh)
Will it ever be?
Will we ever live another day in honesty? (Honesty)
'Cause we're falling apart, right from the start, you and I (oh)
So paint that picture to sleep at night
No regard for another's life
We'll be just fine (oh)
So paint that picture to sleep at night (oh)
No regard for another's life (oh)
We'll be just fine (you and I)
Lyrics submitted by EternalTearsOfSorrow
Zagreus Lyrics as written by Mark Holcomb Jake Bowen
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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