colloquialbitchisms

feel free to change tenses & pronouns as needed, or even combine multiple prompts into one. be creative!!

LINE WITHOUT A HOOK — RICKY MONTGOMERY

“i don't give a damn about the way you touch me when we're alone.” “you can hold my hand when no one's home.” “i can feel all my bones coming back, and i'm craving motion.” “it's a curse and it's growing.” “all my emotions feel like explosions when you're around.” “i need you here to stay.” “if i could take it all back...” “i swear that i would pull you from the tide.” “i am a wreck when i'm without you.” “i broke all my bones that day i found you.”

DIVIDE — BASTILLE

“in these darker days i push the limit to the love you offer.” “there's a riot in my head, demanding we do this forever.” “why would we divide when we could come together?” “just bodies that collide, lost and found each other.” “looking back around, glamourize the chaos.” “don't leave me alone.” “won't let you go like this.”

SOMETHING JUST LIKE THIS — THE CHAINSMOKERS

“i don't see myself upon that list.” “where'd you wanna go?” “how much d'you wanna risk?” “i'm not looking for somebody with some superhuman gifts.” “just something i can turn to.” “somebody i can kiss.” “i want something just like this.” “i'm not the kind of person that it fits.” “somebody i can miss.”

CHATEAU LOBBY #4 ( IN C FOR TWO VIRGINS ) — FATHER JOHN MISTY

“play piano in the hotel lobby.” “i've never done this.” “people are boring, but you're something else completely.” “damn, lets take our chances.” “dating for twenty years feels pretty civilian.” “first time you let me stay despite your own rules.” “you left a note in your perfect script: ‘stay as long as you want.’ and i haven't left your bed since.” “i haven't hated all the same things as somebody else since i remember.” “what are you doing with your whole life? how about forever?”

DIE FOR YOU — STARSET

“i will run alone tonight.” “without you by my side.” “i guess you had a place you had to get to.” “i know inside, the walls you hide behind.” “i saw the truth inside, the real you.” “because i know you're lost when you run away.” “when are you coming home?” “there's no pain i won't go through, even if i have to die for you.” “the only hell i know is without you.” “it's taking all my will just to run alone until i bring you home.” “i'll search the skies for you and i'll follow.”

WICHITA LINEMAN — GLEN CAMPBELL

“i hear you singing in the wire.” “i know i need a small vacation.” “i need you more than i want you.” “and i want you all the time.”

I AM YOU — KIM TAYLOR

“i am tied by truth like an anchor.” “i'm floating freely in the heavens, held in by your heart's gravity.” “even though sometimes you don't know who i am.” “i am you, everything you do. anything you say you want me to be.” “all my senses awaken to the changes, and i feel alive inside my own skin.” “linked eternally in what we can't undo.” “i am you.”

STARRY EYED — ELLIE GOULDING

“take me in, and throw out my heart, and get a new one.” “you look at me; it's like you hit me with lightning.” “so we burst into colours.” “fall head first like paper planes in playground games.” “everybody's starry-eyed.”

DON'T MISS ME — MARIANA'S TRENCH

“you know, it's not like i miss your laughter.” “it's not like i miss your face.” “i tell myself i could do with the space between me to you.” “i'm just a drink away from honesty.” “so who knows what's true?” “but i'm wondering if maybe you don't miss me too?” “a foot out the door, a foot in the grave.” “i guess some people try to raise the dead; some people try to live instead.” “that's too much time, but much too little now.”

ECHOES OF YOU — MARIANA'S TRENCH

“i've never given into madness.” “but i'm better now than before.” “i've never really panicked.” “you inhale ‘til your lungs get sore.” “stirs of whispers trail and linger.” “you still haunt the corner of my eye.” “echoes of you, repeating from the beating of your tell-tale heart.” “i want to make it vanish, but the notes of an old mistake still ring louder every day.” “i still insist i see the ghosts.” “i can't stop myself from falling.”

PAPER RINGS — TAYLOR SWIFT

“cat and mouse for a month, or two, or three.” “now i wake up in the night and watch you breathe.” “kiss me once, ‘cause you know i had a long night.” “kiss me twice, ‘cause it's gonna be alright.” “three times ‘cause i've waited my whole life.” “i like shiny things, but i'd marry you with paper rings.” “i hate accidents, except when we went from friends to this.” “you're the one i want.” “without all the exes, fights, and flaws, we wouldn't be standing here so tall.” “you're the one i want. in paper rings, and picture frames, and all my dreams.”

ABSOLUTELY SMITTEN — DODIE

“she knows this feeling all too well.” “she feels her heart begin to swell.” “handsome stranger, you've made her insides turn to jelly.” “kiss you until your her lips turn blue.” “that girl just there, yes, she's the one.” “pretty lady, look at how he's smiling.” “i think he likes you.” “but it's too late. you're absolutely smitten.” “i believe in fate.” “i'm absolutely smitten, i'll never let you go.” “i'll never let you go.”

MARRY YOU — BRUNO MARS

“it's a beautiful night.” “we're looking for something dumb to do.” “i think i want to marry you.” “is it the look in your eyes or is it this dancing juice?” “i know this little chapel on the boulevard we can go.” “who cares if we're trashed.” “shots of patrón and it's on.” “i'll go get a ring.” “if we wake up and you wanna break up, that's cool.” “tell me right now.” “just say ‘i do’.”

ALIEN LIKE YOU — THE PIGOTT BROTHERS

“i know that you don't know that i know what you know.” “we've got secrets between us that nobody else would believe if we told them.” ”so, let the stars align.” “broken souls will become whole tonight.” “lift your eyes and let me in.” “would you ever wake at night and realize the reason why you knew me then is maybe i'm an alien too?” “i know that believing is hard with the feeling that home must be millions and millions of lightyears away.” “let's not be scared ‘cause we know love's a world above this one.” “we've both spent way too long hearing voices on the radio.” “we can't let anybody know.”

STATE OF GRACE — TAYLOR SWIFT

prompts from songs on my muse's villain playlist. feel free to change pronouns/tenses/etc as needed, or even combine any of them.

DEAD TO ME — CHLOE ADAMS

“you were a friend to me.” “but i put you to sleep & now you're dead to me.” “when did we decide to skip the niceties?” “or were there even times when you were nice to me?” “so, go be shady.” “i'll be the monster that you made me.” “you always see the worst.” “i'll make your bubble burst.” “it's a shame you're to blame.” “you made the rules, but still fucked up your own damn game.” “dead to me.”

HOW VILLAINS ARE MADE — MADALEN DUKE

“whose blood to spill?” “i don't know whose side i'm on.” “one tells the truth, the other's lying & they're both calling my name.” “no one ever starts that way.” “but this is how villains are made.” “whose neck to cut?” “there lies my sanity.” “there goes my mind i could not save.” “i don't trust what i see right in front of me.” “i don't know who to betray.” “so easily we're persuaded when the lines are blurred & faded.”

DEVIL IS A WOMAN — CLOUDY JUNE

“i can't change my ways, god knows why.” “if the sin is so bad, tell me why's it gotta taste so sweet.” “no, i've never been a saint.” “her power got me on my knees.” “your paradise sucks, but your hell sounds good to me.” “wears no halo but choker chains.” “just one kiss, heals your broken faith.” “who don't fit, who don't obey, who ain't straight gets locked away.” “if that's your world, i'm a hopeless case.” “the devil is a woman.”

I'VE GOT A BAD SIDE — ADONA

“i've got a shadow version of myself.” “i don't let her out too much if i can help it.” “i hear the whispers spinning in my head.” “try to keep her quiet, but she must be fed.” “there goes my weakness, there's a crack in the armor; spilled all my secrets.” “i've tried so, so hard to be good.” “let them think i'm a nice girl, keep them fooled.” “i tried to keep it locked inside, oh i swear i tried.” “i've got a bad side.” “it's so contagious, i can't fake it.” “it's just a craving.” “i can't hate it.” “when you see who i really am you'll run.” “you'll run as fast as you can.”

LITTLE GIRL GONE — CHINCHILLA

“say that again, i didn't quite hear ya.” “you get off talkin’ down to the little man.” “time to get what you deserve.” “you're so fuckin’ stupid.” “been a while since my head was this polluted.” “lucky i know my own worth.” “so ya wanna fight me, are you big enough?” “kick the back of my knee, are you serious?” “you keep on trying, but i like your blood on my teeth just a little too much.” “now i'm twisting your arm ’til i hear it break.” “little girl gone, got a gun from a gangster.” “run little girl, run little girl.” “i pack a punch backed into a corner.” “come at me, don't tell me i didn't warn ya.” “wish i could bottle the taste, ‘cause i'd drink up the look on your face.” “honey, i've changed so much since i last saw ya.”

HARD TO KILL — BETH CROWLEY

prompts from songs on my muse's villain playlist. feel free to change pronouns/tenses/etc as needed, or even combine any of them.

NO BODY, NO CRIME — TAYLOR SWIFT FT. HAIM

“i think i'm gonna call him out.” “i ain't letting up until the day i die.” “i think he did it, but i just can't prove it.” “no body, no crime.” “i've cleaned enough houses to know how to clean up a scene.” “she thinks i did it, but she just can't prove it.” “i wasn't letting up until the day he died.”

WICKED AS THEY COME — CRMNL

“first things first, i'm a sinner.” “it's not fun being a saint.” “heart as cold as the winter, and i don't wanna be saved.” “sold my soul to the devil.” “got no fear of the dead.” “i ain't scared of the end.” “pay me what you owe me.” “see you on the dark side when i'm done.” “i'm as wicked as they come.” “i'm hooked on the taste of revenge.” “blood in the water, blood on my hands.” “i feel at home in the darkness.”

BREAKFAST — DOVE CAMERON

“let me show you power.” “i eat boys like you for breakfast.” “i never said it's right, but i'm gonna keep doing it.” “yeah, i'm sick. and honestly, i'm getting high off it.” “do you wanna see a magic trick?” “you don't know what you don't know. but i know.” “it makes me feel alive.”

TEMPORARY FUNERAL — EMLYN

“i'm laying you down to rest.” “i'm saying my final goodbye.” “it's better to mourn and move on.” “it's easier killing you off.” “how nice of you to show up.” “gonna be a quick one since nobody's sorry.” “i didn't write a eulogy, but i wore my best jewelry.”

VILLAINS AREN'T BORN ( THEY'RE MADE ) — PEGGY

“someone's gotta win & lose.” “they say my heart is almost black; who's to blame for that?” “i'm anything but tame.” “grab your sword, you might just need it.” “i'm not afraid of cheating.” “scream my name when they run. honestly, it's kind of fun.” “i'm never satisfied at all.” “they take, they take until you give.” “i aim before i kill.” “live only for the thrill.” “there's nothing left to lose.” “don't tell me it's not fair; believe me, i've been there.” “i'd much rather be alone if i'm sitting on a throne.” “i hate to tell you this way.” “villains aren't born. darlin’, we're made.”

DIRTY THOUGHTS — CHLOE ADAMS

“all the corners of my mind start racing.” “things that should be kept in the basement.” “spend my time trying to erase them.” “i shouldn't think the things i'm thinking.” “god can't save me now.” “i know i ain't that holy.” “i get dirty thoughts about you.” “does that mean that i'm going to hell?”

TROUBLE — VALERIE BROUSSARD

“we wear red so they don't see us bleed.” “we intend not to sleep ‘til we're dead.” “trouble coming in the dead of night.” “i'm that knife in your boot.” “i'm your number two man in a fight.” “here comes trouble.”

VIGILANTE SHIT — TAYLOR SWIFT

“you did some bad things, but i'm the worst of them.” “they say looks can kill, and i might try.” “lately i've been dressing for revenge.” “she had the envelope, where do you think she got it from?” “the lady simply had enough.” “someone told his white collar crimes to the fbi.” “i don't dress for villains or for innocents.” “i'm on my vigilante shit again.”

A LITTLE WICKED — VALERIE BROUSSARD

prompts from songs on my muse's villain playlist. feel free to change pronouns/tenses/etc as needed, or even combine any of them.

THE OTHER SIDE — MARGØ

“i think it's kind of funny that i make you run & hide.” “why am i a villain if i speak what's on my mind?” “now you're on your knees, say a prayer for me.” “please explain to me how an enemy could ever look this good.” “give me your secrets.” “they say i'm the devil. so i painted my heart black.” “i'm never turning back.” “yeah, the world is cruel, but i promise you i'll never lie again.” “you know you can trust me, right?”.....“sike.” “i'll see you on the other side.” “maybe someday we could be friends.” “i wouldn't trust me.”

VILLAIN — JESSIE PAEGE

“protagonist, antagonist. two sides; both wear a mask.” “so heroic, villainous.” “i'm blessed. i'm cursed. i'm both.” “am i the superhero, or am i the villain?” “how do i save myself from this kryptonite within?” “it's dark here, shield on my back.” “i'm battle ready when the demons come.” “these tears will be my warpaint.” “fighting with my shadow.” “the battle is inside my head.” “he won't surrender when his world is crumbling down.” “i won't surrender while i still have my human heart.”

I DID SOMETHING BAD — TAYLOR SWIFT

“i play ‘em like a violin & i make it look oh so easy.” “this is how the world works.” “i don't regret it one bit ‘cause he had it coming.” “they say i did something bad, then why's it feel so good?” “i'd do it over & over again if i could.” “i let them think they saved me.” “you gotta leave before you get left.” “they're burning all the witches even if you aren't one.” “they got their pitchforks & proof, their receipts & reasons” “it just felt so good.”

DEVIL'S WORST NIGHTMARE — FJØRA

“i felt heaven, shaking hands with angels.” “i've met monsters; drank from the well of poison water.” “i'm coming for your sons & daughters.” “just ‘cause i look like an angel, don't mean i won't get down in the dirt.” “just ‘cause i look like a good girl, don't mean i won't do the things that hurt.” “i'm the devil's worst nightmare.” “i've tasted fire.” “i've felt the burn of bittersweet.” “i don't mind all the chaos, it keeps me alive.” “something wicked this way comes.”

THE DEVIL IS A GENTLEMAN — MERCI RAINES

“he don't always come at midnight, burning red & talking sin.” “he knows how to play it just right if you're gonna let him in.” “he's always got the words to say just enough so you don't notice.” “you ain't nothing but his prey.” “sometimes the worst of them have the best disguises.” “he'll go as far as it takes to stay in hiding.” “don't you know ‘bout the devil?” “he's a gentleman.” “think you know just where to find him.” “high atop his fiery throne.” “but it's the places you ain't lookin’ that he likes to make his home.”

DEVIL INSIDE — CRMNL

“set fire to the altar, middle finger to the sun.” “no one to save you when i'm done.” “in the dark i stay.” “there's no good in the place i'm going.” “pray for light.” “we all got a little devil inside.” “tearing you apart in the middle of the night.” “they could bury us alive with the things we hide.” “i stared down the hell fire.” “it's been keeping me awake.” “maybe i was born a sinner.” “i might never be a saint.” “it's ice cold in the shadows.” “one foot in the grave.”

GOOD FOR HER — MOTHICA & EMLYN

“they say she lost it.” “found your switchblade in her pocket.” “everybody should be scared when they're calling it hysteria.” “think you're getting too emotional.” ”you're only gonna make it worse.” “if you stand in her way, she's not gonna behave.” “i'm ready for how she makes it hurt.” “it's what you deserve.” “she'll watch you stand in the corner and cower.” “she puts her first now, good for her.”

KILLER — VALERIE BROUSSARD

“walking alone, you know it's okay.” “‘cause my tongue is sharper than a switchblade.” “you've been tryna elevate my heart rate, but you can't scare me no more.” “they told me you're a killer.” “i saw your collection of hearts and i shoulda known better.” “i've got no doubt that the only way out of this thriller is if i am a killer too.”

VENDETTA — UNSECRET & KRIGARÈ

“fool me once and it's shame on me.” “but, you know, you better tread carefully.” “fool me twice, i'm your enemy.” “if you push, i push back.” “try to hide, but i'll hunt you down like a maniac.” “you'll go down.” “so, if you hide, i'm gonna hunt you down.” “run. you better run.” “kindness never looked good on me.” “never been one to sit quietly.”

BIG BAD WOLF — ROSES & REVOLUTIONS

RED — TAYLOR SWIFT

“loving him is like driving a new maserati down a dead end street.” “loving him is like trying to change your mind once you're already flying through the free fall.” “losing him was blue, like i'd never known.” “missing him was dark gray, all alone.” “forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met.” “loving him was red.” “remembering him comes in flashbacks and echoes.” “moving on from him is impossible when i still see it all in my head.”

POMPEII — BASTILLE

“i was left to my own devices.” “the walls kept tumbling down.” “does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?” “how am i going to be an optimist about it?” “we were caught up and lost in all of our vices.” “where do we begin?”

LOST BOY — RUTH B

“there was a time when i was alone, with nowhere to go & no place to call home.” “i am a lost boy from neverland.” “as we soared about the town that never loved me, i realized i finally had a family.” “you are now my home sweet home.” “neverland is home to lost boys like me.”

TEETH — 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER

“you talk so pretty, but your heart's got teeth.” “then you turn into somebody i don't know.” “and you push me away.” “i don't know if i'm gonna make it out alive.” “you're looking at me like you don't know who i am.”

HEATHENS — TWENTY-ONE PILOTS

“please don't make any sudden moves.” “you don't know half of the abuse.” “you'll never know the psychopath sitting next to you.” “you'll never know the murdered sitting next to you.” “we don't deal with outsiders very well.” “you have trust issues.” “i tried to warn you just to stay away.” “it looks like you might be one of us.”

ALIVE — SIA

“i was born in a thunderstorm.” “i grew up overnight.” “i survived.” “i wore envy and i hated that.” “i had a one-way ticket to the place where all the demons go.” “i have made every single mistake that you could ever probably make.” “i knew what i wanted; i went in and got it.” “you took it all, but i'm still breathing.” “i'm alive.”

ALONE TOGETHER — FALL OUT BOY

“i don't know where you're going, but do you have room for one more troubled soul?” “i don't know where i'm going.” “but i don't think i'm coming home.” “i'll check in tomorrow if i don't wake up dead.” “this is the road to ruin.” “let's be alone together.” “my heart is like a stallion, they love it more when it's broken.”

JUST ONE YESTERDAY — FALL OUT BOY

“i thought of angels choking on their halos.” “pulling out their fragile teeth & clip their tiny wings.” “i'd trade all my tomorrows for just one yesterday.” “i know i'm bad news.” “i want to teach you a lesson in the worst kind of way.” “letting people down is my thing.” “this town isn't big enough for the two of us.” “if i spilled my guts, the world would never look at you the same way.” “i'm here to give you all my love.” “and watch your face as i take it all away.”

SIT STILL LOOK PRETTY — DAYA

“i'm never gonna be that girl.” “i don't want to be the puppet that you're playing on a string.” “i don't want to sit still, look pretty.” “i would rather fly solo.” “i don't know what you've been told.”

NIGHTINGALE — DEMI LOVATO

“i can't sleep tonight.” “i need a light to take me home.” “i know you're there.” “you could be my sanity.” “i'm overwhelmed.” “bring me peace.” “i don't know what i'd do without you.” “as long as you're with me here tonight, i'm good.”

DARK CAN BE BEAUTIFUL — ALEC CHAMBERS

“sometimes it takes all day to get out of bed.” “skeletons in my closet when i get dressed.” “don't go pretending like your past might drive me out.” “i promise i won't run away.” “tell your demons they can stay.” “when i tell you that i feel you, those are not just words i say.” “dark can be beautiful.” “it's okay to not be okay.”

THE ARCHER — TAYLOR SWIFT

“i'm ready for combat.” “i say i don't want that, but what if i do.” “i've got a hundred thrown out speeches i almost said to you.” “i jump from the train, i ride off alone.” “who could ever leave me? but who could stay?” “i hate my reflection for years and years.” “i wake in the night; i pace like a ghost.” “all of my heroes die all alone.” “can you see right through me?” “all the king's horses, all the king's men, couldn't put me together again.”

NUMB LITTLE BUG — EM BEIHOLD

“do you ever get a little bit tired of life?” “like you're not really happy, but you don't want to die?” “am i past repair?” “i'm barely breathing, trying to stay afloat.” “i guess i'm just broken & broke.” “like a numb little bug that's gotta survive.”

THE OTHER SIDE — MARGØ

“why am i villain if i speak what's on my mind?” “just look into my eyes.” “you know you can trust me, right?” “so, i painted my heart black.” “i kind of like the danger.” “don't you know that i do this to survive?” “i'll never lie again.” “i'll see you on the other side.” “maybe, someday we could be friends.” “i wouldn't trust me.”

VILLAIN — JESSIE PAEGE

“no one understands it quite like me.” “how could they believe me?” “i'm blessed, i'm cursed, i'm both.” “how do i save myself?” “it's dark here.” “i'm battle-ready when the demons come.” “these tears will be my warpaint.” “fighting with my shadow; the battle inside my head.” “i won't surrender while i still have my human heart.”

BRITTLE — ICON FOR HIRE

SATURDAY NIGHT'S ALRIGHT ( FOR FIGHTING ) – FALL OUT BOY COVER

“don't give us none of your aggravation.” “saturday night's alright for fighting.” “i may use a little muscle to get what i need.” “i'm a juvenile product of the working class.” “whose best friend floats at the bottom of a glass.”

YOU'RE GONNA GO FAR, KID — THE OFFSPRING

“show me how to lie.” “you're getting better all the time.” “he never had a chance.” “no one even knew it it was really only you.” “with a thousand lies and a good disguise.” “there's something in your way and now someone is gonna pay.” “you're gonna go far, kid.” “trust deceived.”

YOU MAY BE RIGHT — BILLY JOEL

“i've been stranded in the combat zone.” “i made it home alive, so you said that only proves that i'm insane.” “you may be right.” “i may be crazy.” “don't try to save me.” “you might enjoy some madness for a while.” “it's too late to fight.” “it's too late to change me.”

SMOOTH CRIMINAL — ALIEN ANT FARM COVER

“he left bloodstains on the carpet.” “[ name ], are you okay?” “you were struck down.” “it was your doom.”

BAD COMPANY — BAD COMPANY

“behind a gun i'll make my final stand.” “that's why they call me bad company.” “i can't deny.” “tell me that you're not a thief.” “oh, but i am.” “it's the way i play; dirty for dirty.” “somebody double crossed me.” “killed in cold blood.”

RENEGADE — STYX

“i'm in fear for my life.” “i'm so far from my home.” “you're so scared & all alone.” “i don't have very long.” “this'll be the end today.” “they finally found me.” “the renegade who had it made.” “i don't wanna go.” “no, no, no, i can't go.”

HOLD THE LINE — TOTO

“it's not in the way that you hold me.” “it's not in the way you say that you care.” “love isn't always on time.” “it's not in the way your love set me free.”

THIS IS GOSPEL — PANIC! AT THE DISCO

“these words are knives that often leave scars.” “the fear of falling apart.” “don't try to sleep through the end of the world.” “i won't give up without a fight.” “if you love me let me go.”

FAR TOO YOUNG TO DIE — PANIC! AT THE DISCO

“i've never so adored you.” “don't let me do this to myself.” “well, i never really thought that you'd come tonight.” “the crown weighs heavy on either side.” “give me one last kiss.” “we're far too young to die.”

CONTROL — HALSEY