stars...... pretty

“  she needs wide open spaces.  ” “  i want to touch the earth, i want to break it in my hands.  ” “  i want to be the only one for miles and miles.  ” “  if there’s a plane or a bus leaving, i hope you’re on it.  ” “  i miss you bad.  ” “  baby, just come back.  ” “  you always had an eye for things that glittered.  ” “  i can’t forget the way you looked at me.  ” “  i told you that i was happy for you, and given the chance, i’d lie again.  ” “  just to see you smile, i’d do anything that you wanted me to.  ” “  he wore that cowboy hat to cover up his horns.  ” “  that sweet talking forked tongue had a tempting charm.  ” “  here’s to the girl that wrecked my world.  ” “  that lonesome feeling comes to my door and the whole world turns blue.  ” “  i sit alone and think of losing you.  ” “  there’s always room here for the lonely.  ” “  there’s no telling how many tears i’ve sat here and cried.  ” “  the words to every sad song seem to say what i think.  ” “  have you ever thought of running away?  ” “  would you marry me?  ” “  i should’ve been a cowboy.  ” “  california’s full of whiskey, women, and ghosts.  ” “  it’s a great day to be alive.  ” “  i might go get me a new tattoo.  ” “  a goodbye kiss is all i need from you.  ” “  you’re right there in everything i do.  ” “  you were the first thing that i thought of when i thought i drank you off my mind.  ” “  any man of mine better walk the line.  ” “  i knew the stakes were high right from the start.  ” “  we’ve been in and out of love and in between.  ” “  the last goodbye’s the hardest one to say.  ” “  you’re still the one.  ” “  you might be the death of me, but i don’t care.  ” “  what a beautiful mess i’m in.  ” “  there’s so much about you that i’m gonna miss.  ” “  don’t bother coming home.  ” “  it was no accident, me finding you.  ” “  it’s hard to deal with the pain of losing you everywhere i go.  ” “  i never make a promise i don’t intend to keep.  ” “  there ain't no glamour in this tinseled land of lost and wasted lives.  ” “  thank you for teaching me brand new ways to be cruel.  ” “  the only thing that stays the same is everything changes.  ” “  i’m amazed by you.  ”

“  i can’t hide nothing anymore.  ” “  i’m the thing you’ll never get back, but i swear to god, you could.  ” “  you, and me, and the stars...  ” “  i’m chasing the poison.  ” “  my choices are repulsive.  ” “  i’ve let it pull me down because i’ve been getting numb.  ” “  the friends that make you forget will only make you dumb.  ” “  maybe i left too many things unspoken.  ” “  maybe i lied about where i was going.  ” “  i don’t blame you for the fact that you blame me.  ” “  i won’t hate you if you want to forget me.  ” “  everything that you said about me is true.  ” “  just for the record, i really loved you.  ” “  you probably don’t want to hear me out.  ” “  she’s trying to love me, and i’m trying to let her.  ” “  she’s like a saint who’s taking in the sinner.  ” “  i’m lying in a bed that’s made for two with no one next to me.  ” “  do you really want to live like this forever?  ” “  souls are never made to fail.  ” “  these walls were built to stand.  ” “  i framed a fortress around my heart.  ” “  our love still stands.  ” “  what you hope for ain’t always what it is.  ” “  i went way too far this time.  ” “  if i’m going down, at least i pray i’ll burn out bright.  ” “  you don’t have to understand everything all of the time.  ”

“  i ain’t got time to cover my tracks.  ” “  how the hell do i return to normal?  ” “  it’s a stone’s throw back to old habits.  ” “  you’re the prettiest thing.  ” “  it wasn’t much, just everything.  ” “  i found god in a bottle of wine.  ” “  i got lost in california.  ” “  that town kept calling me.  ” “  it feels like a curse when the drugs don’t work.  ” “  i bought a statue of jesus.  ” “  i’m barely living, and almost dead.  ” “  i’ve been down in a hole so long, i don’t know if any love could fill it back up.  ” “  stay behind me.  ” “  i took too many pills again.  ” “  i blacked out for a week, didn’t eat, didn’t sleep.  ” “  she’s probably gonna be pissed.  ” “  it was a dark december.  ” “  i’ve come too far to turn back now.  ” “  i feel like i’m gonna fall down.  ” “  i was born and raised in an earthquake state, so i’m better on shaky ground.  ” “  what the hell am i gonna do now?  ” “  good god, i’m broke.  ” “  how have you been?  ” “  you never seem to have much to say.  ” “  i’ve been awake for a week, i’m trying not to sleep.  ” “  you drain every little bit of me away.  ” “  you know, i ain’t doing too well.  ” “  i blacked out in a bar.  ” “  i get so fucked up just to forget who you are.  ” “  i dumb down my head so i can’t feel my heart pound.  ” “  i laugh and i ramble about anything other that what i’ve been holding in.  ” “  i packed up everything i owned.  ” “  i might die on this highway. part of me wishes i will.  ” “  i’m leaving it all in a cloud of dust.  ”

“  i refuse to believe i have to be the same person i was born when i die.  ” “  change is alright.  ” “  i’m not proud of the choices i made for a lot of my life. ” “  i’ve made people feel like hell.  ” “  i refuse to believe i have to keep being cruel.  ” “  i’m a coward.  ” “  the blood in the water is the blood of my brother.  ” “  it didn’t mean a thing in the end if blood was thicker than water.  ” “  i’ve tried having faith.  ” “  i’ve always been scared of loving someone just a little bit more than i’m loved.  ” “  losing is fine.  ” “  everything is fine.  ” “  don’t act surprised if i disappoint you.  ” “  there’s no prize at the end of this game.  ” “  i’m a goddamn mess for you to clean up, but i like it.  ” “  the whole world thinks i’m insane, and it might be true.  ” “  i’m crazy for you.  ” “  both of us float in the same kind of dark.  ” “  i was the storm and you were always the ark.  ” “  i’m a man of my word, and that word is ‘regret’.  ” “  tell everyone in the room that i’m fine.  ” “  i’ve learned to love a little blood in my wine.  ”  “  they think you’re a savior.  ” “  behind closed doors, they don’t know the trouble you’re in.  ” “  one day, the heavens will call all the angels back home, and you won’t get to go.  ” “  it’s too late to change your story.  ” “  your eyes, they look like diamonds.  ” “  i know you’re waiting around to find the right man.  ” “  the thing about taking your time, it takes it right back some day.  ” “  no one deserves my world quite like you do.  ” “  it’s true, i hate everything about you.  ” “  when you’re as happy as this, time starts to fly.  ” “  i’ll lay by your side ‘til everything is rotten through.  ” “  it’s all for you.  ” “  i went to the bar to get a little closer to myself.  ” “  i got into a cab that smelled like vinegar.  ” “  i’d rot in hell with you, if you just asked me to.  ” “  i love the shitty things we do together.  ” “  i know you want it too.  ” “  we take things a little far.  ” “  you couldn’t name a place i wouldn’t go with you.  ” “  home is the last place that i’d stand to be with anyone but you.  ” “  are you feeling upside down, or even empty inside?  ” “  i have a couple faces.  ” “  open up to me. your heart will always have a place to live.  ” “  i am the weight this town is never gonna lose.  ” “  it’s been a while since i’ve held anything as close as i have you.  ” “  there’s never been a love like this before.  ” “  there’s nothing left to lose, ‘cause i already lost it all.  ” “  i think she came over to feel worth.  ” “  i’ll spill my guts.  ”  “  the devil came and sold his fuckin’ soul to me.  ” “  this night is going to end horribly for someone.  ” “  i am the son of an asshole.  ”  “  trust me, i’m not jealous, i’m just hoping that he really messes up.  ” “  i’m not so much afraid of letting go as much as scared of giving up.  ” “  every mile i traveled was to find the perfect stone to fit your ring.  ” “  living in the moment’s hard when everything i want is in the past.  ” “  now you’re with this asshole.  ” “  when i had you near me, i just couldn’t think of anything to say.  ” “  i’m not jealous, i’m just hoping that he really fucks things up.  ” “  we’ll never have a house to decorate or a place that we can call our home.  ” “  i hope your husband dies.  ” “  death is just one moment.  ” “  i’ve heard you and me and the devil makes three.  ” “  i drink, therefore i am--- at least i think that’s how the saying goes  ” “  there’s one kind of people in this world: people who die.  ”

“  your first parent was a star.  ” “  i recognize you, i know you again, from some dream or life.  ” “  authenticity is important.  ” “  human beings as a mass have a gruesome appetite for what they call ‘real’.  ” “  the free man never thinks of escape.  ” “  the hells we invent are the hells we have known.  ” “  she loved him because he showed her to herself. he was her moving mirror.  ” “  my good nature makes me easy to deceive.  ” “  every man assumes that what is valued by him must be coveted by others.  ” “  in a way, i was allowed to be my own punishment.  ” “  time was turning me to stone.  ” “  we’ve all got burdens to bear.  ” “  only a madman would come here.  ” “  what she really likes to do is humiliate me.  ” “  and now, i find myself here with you.” “  i’m cursed already, how bad can it get?” “  go home.  ” “  there is no home.  ” “  you are my fate. and guess what? i am yours.  ” “  if i seem like fate to you, it’s because you have no power of your own.  ” “  why are we doing this?  ” “  i saved myself in my lonely hours by thinking.  ” “  what was there to feel anyway--- but pain and weight?  ” “  i felt an emotion i hardly recognized, and i did not dare to name it.  ” “  you could have chosen differently. you didn’t.  ” “  how can i escape my fate?  ” “  you aren’t getting tired, are you?  ” “  i would save you again. a thousand times.  ” “  having no one to carry me, i learned to carry myself.  ” “  i’m good at walking away.  ” “  rejection teaches you to reject.  ” “  she didn’t know she was the one.  ” “  she was in love with him, or she thought she was.  ” “  what kind of dream?  ” “  if you go on believing in the fiction of your parents, it’s difficult to construct any narrative of your own.  ” “  my mother said we all have our cross to bear. she paraded hers like a medieval martyr.  ” “  she believed in christ, but not cross-bearing qualities.  ” “  anger is deeper than forgiveness.  ” “  i try not to burn up my world with rage. it is so hard.  ” “  what limits? there are none.  ” “  dark matter could be conventional matter, like small stars, or it could even be black holes. or it could be atlas holding up the universe.  ”