"Fortnight is a song that I think really exhibits a lot of the common themes that run throughout this album. One of which being - fatalism. Longing, pining away, lost dreams. You know, I think that it's a very fatalistic album in that there are lots of very dramatic lines about life or death and "I love you, it's ruining my life" like these are very hyperbolic, dramatic things to say. But, it’s that kind of album. It’s about a – you know – dramatic, artistic, tragic kind of take on love and loss. And “Fortnight,” I’ve always imagined that it took place in this like, American town where, the American Dream you thought would happen [to you] didn’t.  Like – you ended up not with the person that you loved, and now you have to just live with that every day. Wondering what would’ve been, maybe seeing them out… and that’s a pretty tragic concept, really. So I was just writing from that perspective." - Taylor Swift