take my hand

Cottage witch aesthetic 

“Please, come with me.”

“You’re always number one.”

“I can’t do this.”

“I won’t let you.”

“Maybe I’m just crazy.”

“I’m not even sorry.”

“Honestly, just stop it.”

“I believe in you.”

“Don’t be an ass.”

“Who were you with?”

“Please talk to me.”

“I can’t trust you.”

“I need you, though.”

“Don’t be fucking rude.”

“Is that my shirt?”

“So, it was you.”

“I need to go.”

“Just stay with me.”

“You can trust me.”

“Alright, I love you.”

“I’m sorry, but no.”

“Will you help me?”

“You’re a terrible cook.”

“Can you shut up!?”

“You love me, right?”

“I really need you.”

“I don’t love you.”

“I’m not doing this.”

“I really need you.”

“You don’t want me.”

“Let me help you.”

“You’re such a bitch.”

“I can’t do this.”

“You think you’re funny?”

“Hey, I said stop!”

“Will you marry me?”

“Wanna go out sometime?”

“I don’t want this.”

“You always this quiet?”

“Are you fucking insane!?”

“I don’t want you.”

“I’m not wearing that.”

“Sorry, were you sleeping?”

“This was never right.”

“You look really tired.”

“I’m out of here.”

NO JOHN TRUMBULL.

❝  you ever see a painting by john trumbull?  ❞

❝  the reality is messier and richer.  ❞

❝  the reality is not a pretty picture.  ❞

MY SHOT ( RISE UP REMIX ).

❝  that’s why i hustle hella hard, never celebrate a holiday.  ❞

❝  i refuse to ever lose or throw my shot away.  ❞

❝  if i have given it all i got i cannot regret it.  ❞

❝  when opportunity knock, you don’t send anyone to get it — answer the door, welcome it, let it in, or regret it.  ❞

❝  i surprise you guys, i’m a prize fighter.  ❞

❝  be leaders, believers in yourself and mean it.  ❞

❝  i mean you only get one shot, take it or leave it.  ❞

❝  we ain’t got no other choice, we need to rise up.  ❞

❝  inside i feel that fire that’s burning.  ❞

❝  see i’ve been patiently waiting for this moment.  ❞

❝  give me my one chance to grab the torch and properly hold it.  ❞

WROTE MY WAY OUT.

❝  i had no foundation, no friends and no family to catch my fall.  ❞

❝  running on empty, there was nothing left in me but doubt.  ❞

❝  writin’ songs about rights and wrongs and bails bonds.  ❞

❝  competition near, i’m a spartan without the spear.  ❞

❝  this poetry in motion, i’m a poet.  ❞

❝  running out of time like i’m jonathan larson’s rent check.  ❞

❝  my mind is where the wild things are.  ❞

❝  oh, you think you smart?  ❞

❝  oversensitive, defenseless, i made sense of it.  ❞

❝  these sentences are endless, so what if they leave me friendless?  ❞

❝  damn, you got no chill.  ❞

❝  fuckin’ right, i’m relentless!  ❞

❝  i know abuela’s never really gonna win the lottery.  ❞

❝  i was born in the eye of a storm.  ❞

❝  this hurricane in my brain is the burden i bear.  ❞

❝  i’m here cause i wrote my way out.  ❞

AN OPEN LETTER ( INTERLUDE ).

❝  an open letter to the fat, arrogant, anti - charismatic national embarrassment known as  ______.  ❞

❝  the man’s irrational.  ❞

❝  trick, please!  ❞

❝  at least i do my job up in this rumpus.  ❞

❝  the line is behind me, i crossed it again.  ❞

❝  they were calling you a dick back in ‘76 and you really haven’t done anything new since.  ❞

❝  you’re a nuisance with no sense.  ❞

❝  you’ll die of irrelevance.  ❞

❝  go ahead, you aspire to my level, you aspire to malevolence.  ❞

❝  i don’t care if i kill my career with this letter.  ❞

❝  sit down, _____, you fat motherfucker!  ❞

VALLEY FORGE ( DEMO ).

❝  these are the times that try men’s souls.  ❞

❝  tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.  ❞

❝  i am seeing the best minds of my generation waste away in pestilence and starvation.  ❞

❝  is this all a test or have we met our doom?  ❞

❝  i am beyond comprehension of their nonsense.  ❞

❝  do you have no influence at all, you fucking skinflints?  ❞

❝  tone it down.  ❞

IMMIGRANTS ( WE GET THE JOB DONE ).

❝  it’s really astonishing that in a country founded by immigrants, immigrant has somehow become a bad word.  ❞

❝  we all came to america trying to get a lap dance from lady freedom.  ❞

❝  don’t think i didn’t notice those tombstones disguised as waves.  ❞

❝  all you got to do is see the world with new eyes.  ❞

❝  immigrants, we get the job done.  ❞

❝  look how far i come.  ❞

❝  we’re america’s ghost writers, the credit’s only borrowed.  ❞

CONGRATULATIONS.

❝  congratulations, you have invented a new kind of stupid.  ❞

❝  truly, you didn’t think this through? kinda stupid.  ❞

❝  i begged you to take a break, you refused to  ❞

❝  so scared of what your enemies might do to you. you’re the only enemy you ever seem to lose to!  ❞

❝  you’ve redefined your legacy.  ❞

❝  i lived only to read your letters.  ❞

❝  i look at you and think ‘god, what have we done with our lives, and what did it get us?’  ❞

❝  i’m back in the city and i’m here to stay.  ❞

❝  i know what i’m here to do. i’m not here for you.  ❞

CABINET BATTLE 3 ( DEMO ).

❝  and whether or not you want it, guys, that is the final compromise we made.  ❞

❝  we cannot cure prejudice or righteous, desperate hate.  ❞

❝  but we can’t address the question if we do not have an answer.  ❞

❝  is it my turn? good.  ❞

❝  a land of the free? no it’s not, it’s hypocrisy.  ❞

❝  how dare you.  ❞

❝  well, you asked how i feel. i don’t pretend to know the answer, but the question is real.  ❞

❝  let’s take this moment to establish a precedent.  ❞

❝  do you really wanna have that conversation?  ❞

❝  let’s hope the next generation thinks of something better.  ❞

WASHINGTONS BY YOUR SIDE.

❝  it’s kinda crazy ‘cause people think i got it made just ‘cause i got paper.  ❞

❝  i do got it made but that’s ‘cause i made it myself.  ❞

❝  don’t matter what most people say.  ❞

❝  i did everything that i want, i still don’t care what anybody else think.  ❞

❝  it must be nice to have everybody on your side.  ❞

WHO TELLS YOUR STORY.

❝  when i die, will heaven be done?  ❞

❝  what will my legend become?  ❞

❝  the path to perfection is rarely achieved. i head in that direction, i dream and believe.  ❞

❝  the quills that i dip into the ink go to document and you’ll remember me when i’m extinct.  ❞

❝  through hard times, we spark minds to keep the flame on.  ❞

victorian witch aesthetic