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.
To begin but not complete
To sleep but not to wake
To always be lost and
Never find the way
No thoughts or memory
No hope or tragedy
A mirror waits for a
Reflection of a face
To hit the ground and know
The sound
Trial by mistake
Death's a crown we wear
Around
Like a smile on a face
They will never hate or
Lie
They will never break or
Try
They will never break or
Cry
They will never wave
Goodbye
A silence that would not
Break
The loss of a face
The face of a woman that
Arrived much too late
I break down and she sees
The clowns
I used to hide away
Death to clowns all their
Crowns
And the smiles on their
Face
They will never break or
Try
They will never hate or
Lie
They will never say or
Smile
They will never break or
Cry
Neenah Menasha will wait
Neenah Menasha . Neenah
Menasha
Will wait
I break down and she sees
The clowns
I used to hide away
Death to clowns and all
Their crowns
And the smiles on their
Face
They will never hate or
Lie
They will never break or
Try
They will never break or
Cry
They will never wave
Goodbye
To sleep but not to wake
To always be lost and
Never find the way
No thoughts or memory
No hope or tragedy
A mirror waits for a
Reflection of a face
To hit the ground and know
The sound
Trial by mistake
Death's a crown we wear
Around
Like a smile on a face
They will never hate or
Lie
They will never break or
Try
They will never break or
Cry
They will never wave
Goodbye
A silence that would not
Break
The loss of a face
The face of a woman that
Arrived much too late
I break down and she sees
The clowns
I used to hide away
Death to clowns all their
Crowns
And the smiles on their
Face
They will never break or
Try
They will never hate or
Lie
They will never say or
Smile
They will never break or
Cry
Neenah Menasha will wait
Neenah Menasha . Neenah
Menasha
Will wait
I break down and she sees
The clowns
I used to hide away
Death to clowns and all
Their crowns
And the smiles on their
Face
They will never hate or
Lie
They will never break or
Try
They will never break or
Cry
They will never wave
Goodbye
Lyrics submitted by black_cow_of_death
Neenah Menasha Lyrics as written by Timothy Cross Michael Cross
Lyrics © Spirit Music Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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I found this on you tube in reference to the Neenah Menasha video on you tube:
Strangely this video appears to have been filmed under the sewer drainage system of the roads near the gangster Al Capone's vacation brothel town of Fox Lake, Illinois. Recently Mayor Donny Schmit went on an under cover investigation of all things mystical to determine the true nature of the spirits that haunt the citizens of this town. Of course our quest began from a citizen complaint of loud and peculiar noises resembling music from under a sewer drain man hole cover on Riverview Avenue near Lakefront park. The three of us Mayor Schmit, Officer Ostertag of the Fox Lake Police Department, and myself venture forth to discover what locals call "The Vanishing Currency Portal" of the Change Machine. All I know is that the smell of pumpernickel that night as one by one the Mayor and then Officer Ostertag suddenly disappeared from the asphalt roadways. Instinctively I knew to check for "signs" and there they were snakes halted upon the asphalt near the manhole covers marked in what appeared to be a heavy iron die casting. NEENAH WISC. I read as those snakes slithered into the words themselves. I wonder to this day is Mayor Schmit and Officer Ostertag transformed into those snakes of were the snakes an indication that both of them went under the asphalt via the manhole cover thereby disturbing the snakes. Certainly the snakes themselves were not disturbed by the music. To this day I wonder what happened of the Mayor and Officer Ostertag. I suspect they are still down below plotting some form of adversity for currency and profit. All I have left these brave souls is a pair of glasses made in Brillion. They seem to have the power to look into the heart of Lions to see even more.
here's the video's URL youtube.com/watch
Anyways, not sure if that really has anything to with the song but it's coincidental or maybe there's some interesting tie...also if you watch the video it does appear interestingly enough that lead singer Vinnie is making snake like motions with his hands as he sings, I picked that up but it's likely nothing. The video does appear to be shot in a under a sewer drain or just somewhere underground and dark.
but another you tube person commented some much more simple theory The song was written about looking for the Neenah Menasha highway exit (in Wisconsin) when they were driving around on tour.