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𝚁𝙿 𝙿𝚁𝙾𝙼𝙿𝚃𝚂 𝙻𝙸𝚂𝚃𝙴𝙳 𝙱𝙴𝙻𝙾𝚆 . . .

a series of movie prompts from david lowery's mother mary (2026).  feel free to change pronouns as you see fit ! cw; sexual themes, gore, & suicidal ideation

❛ you are a carcinogen, you are a tumor, whose malignancy has defined the ebb and flow of all i've done. ❜ 

❛ do you know how much space you occupy in the entirety of me? ❜ 

❛ if you hadn't shown up on my door this morning, i'd have gladly gone the rest of my days thinking of you regularly. ❜ 

❛  never have i known how closely love and hate are bound than when i think of you and realize you deserve neither. ❜ 

❛ i'll kill you softly. so sweetly, kindly. ❜ 

❛ i was born to be the widow of love. ❜ 

❛ but your teeth tell me i'm not enough. ❜ 

❛  i hadn't seen her in over 10 years but i could tell she was coming from a mile away. ❜ 

❛ i felt as if a secret twin had grown in my skull. ❜ 

❛ would you like something to eat? ❜ 

❛ so the onus is on me then, to list off your offenses one by one and cross-check them against the totality of your "i'm sorry"? ❜ 

❛ that hardly seems worth it, does it? making me do all the work, just like you always do. ❜ 

❛ what, you don't have a whole coterie of stylists to take care of that for you? ❜ 

❛ and you've come crawling back to me because you know i can do better. ❜ 

❛ will you let me do whatever i like? will you do exactly as i say? ❜ 

❛ now, as you can see, i've entered my ms. havisham period very much ahead of schedule. ❜ 

❛ this is where i come to cry my eyes out in the dark. ❜ 

❛ you'll see how i've changed. what the years have made of me.  ❜ 

❛ don't worry. there are no spies in our midst. ❜ 

❛ no, you want to tell me. you want me to know so badly, you can hardly stand it. but it's okay. i can wait. ❜ 

❛  yes, I know what you said. you don't want to wear one, but what if i want you to wear one? ❜ 

❛ are you there? are you mine? do you feel holy? are you real or divine? ❜ 

❛ your spirit is calling me. ❜ 

❛ you want me to make you into a knife? ❜ 

❛ i want to be sharp. i want to have a point. ❜ 

❛ i could build you a pyre the likes of which the world has never seen if that's the way you see things going. ❜ 

❛ we are still speaking in… abstractions, aren't we? ❜ 

❛ so you're not planning on self-immolating on my doorstep? ❜ 

❛ people say quitting is for cowards, but it's actually one of the bravest things anyone can do. ❜ 

❛ i can't quit. i don't know how to do anything else. ❜ 

❛ when you open your mouth and sing about your sadness, it will be everyone's sadness, and it will be writ as large as the goddamn sky because that's what you give people.    ❜ 

❛ you're going to lay waste to her, aren't you? ❜ 

❛ but it's been a while, my mouth is lonely for you. ❜ 

❛ every now and then, though, something happens. and it makes us prick up our ears and say, "that was a moment." ❜ 

❛ what i think we're really saying… is for that moment, we were… together. ❜ 

❛ did I really hurt your feelings so badly? ❜ 

❛ and there i was… who knew you and… who loved you, trying to pick up the pieces. except there weren't even any pieces 'cause everything i had was… wrapped up in you. ❜ 

❛ you never know how little you matter until you realize that everything you've done has been in the service of someone.  ❜ 

❛ the whole world loves you just as much as i do. ❜ 

❛ i wanted you to look like joan of arc. when i heard you sing, that's what i saw. ❜ 

❛ i liked it. i liked how you saw me. i liked how it felt… when you dressed me. ❜ 

❛ these metaphors are exhausting. ❜ 

❛ you went somewhere… i couldn't follow.  ❜ 

❛ can't you do it? can't you do the work? make me love you again. ❜ 

❛ i'm no good at changing on the spot. i'm not… like you. i can't be what other people want me to be at the drop of a hat. ❜ 

❛ everyone else needs you. i don't. ❜ 

❛ would you like to know what happened the last time i heard you sing?  ❜ 

❛ you were radiant. i was miserable. ❜ 

❛ the pain that it gave me was pure and sharp. and i could think of no way to describe it other than you. ❜ 

❛ i can say without a doubt, there was a ghost at the foot of my bed. ❜ 

❛ she was red. not red like a color. more like… red like a feeling.  ❜ 

❛ i stopped thinking about you. i stopped dreaming about you. and everything's been better ever since. ❜ 

❛ where do ghosts go when you don't need them anymore? ❜ 

❛ now, you must open the door and let my love in. ❜ 

❛ you said i need to open my heart. so here i am, opening it as far as i can.  ❜ 

❛ when are you and i ever gonna be in the same room again after all this is done?  ❜ 

❛ you'll take your dress and you'll go away, and I'll be here, haunting my own house, all alone. ❜ 

a series of lyric prompts from the weeknd's final album.  feel free to change pronouns as you see fit ! cw; sexual themes, emotional abuse, substance abuse, & suicidal ideation

❛ all I have is my legacy. ❜ 

❛ i've been losing my memory. ❜ 

❛ no afterlife, no other side. i'm all alone when it fades. ❜ 

❛ when life is hard i know death's easy. ❜ 

❛ i can't find the horizon, i'm running out of time. ❜ 

❛ are you real, or are you an illusion? ❜ 

❛ i fear your love's my delusion. ❜ 

❛ wake me up, come find me. ❜ 

❛ it's coming to the wire, i'm feeling like i'm paralyzed. ❜ 

❛ cleanse me with your fire, open up my eyes. ❜ 

❛ i wish that i told you all my feelings. ❜ 

❛ i hope that I live life for a reason. ❜ 

❛ at least you'll play this song after i'm gone. ❜ 

❛ i tried with you, saw my life with you, now we're strangers. ❜ 

❛ i hope that you still cry for me like i cry for you. ❜ 

❛ every night for you, i've been living with this lie. ❜ 

❛ when i needed you the most, you always gave me sympathy. ❜ 

❛ now you're better on your own, it ain't a fucking mystery. ❜ 

❛ every time i try to run, you put your curse all over me. ❜ 

❛ i surrender at your feet, baby, put it all on me. ❜ 

❛ every time i try to pray you away, you got me on my knees. ❜ 

❛ trying to remember everything that my preacher said. ❜ 

❛ trying to right my wrongs, my rеgrets are filling up my head. ❜ 

❛ all the timеs i dodged death, this can't be the way it ends. ❜ 

❛ i just know the shadow's staring at me, it gets closer. ❜ 

❛ voices tell me that i should carry on. ❜ 

❛ i've been baptized in fear, my dear. ❜ 

❛ i've been the chief of sin, washing my soul within. ❜ 

❛ all the silver and gold only made my skin cold. ❜ 

❛ angels call my name, but the things you say keep me alive. ❜ 

❛ trapped inside a limbo, watching through a window of my soul. ❜ 

❛ suffering, i've been low, then i seen your halo. ❜ 

❛ tell me how our love grows, when you're trying to dig for lies? ❜ 

❛ give me what i want, then we'll start the show. ❜ 

❛ i'm trapped inside a gilded cage. there's a golden blade i'm sharpening. ❜ 

❛ if it pleases you, i'll see it through. ❜ 

❛ i feel your chill across my skin. ❜ 

❛ i won't make a sound, when they take my crown. ❜ 

❛ you think i don't know you're staying up all night. ❜ 

❛ i just hope you're not back to the old you. ❜ 

❛ don't let them take you from me. ❜ 

❛ what does that shit feel like anyway? ❜ 

❛ love me. 'cause, baby, i need you. ❜ 

❛ oh no, i'm in my feelings. ❜ 

❛ they can never tear us apart, we're symbiotic. ❜ 

❛ no one thought i'd makе it past twenty-four. ❜ 

❛ i hope you enjoy the show. let me know, baby. ❜ 

❛ i don't wanna give you any space anymore. ❜ 

❛ i can't live without you, i've been going through withdrawals. ❜

❛ i'm saying a prayer for the rebels. ❜  

❛ and when the curtains call, i hope you mourn. ❜  

❛ i'll always lie to you, i'm unreliable.  ❜  

❛ why won't you let me go? why won't you let me leave?  ❜  

❛ i've given up on me, i think i'm in too deep.  ❜  

❛ i could never leave you alone.  ❜  

❛ it keeps calling me back, the sunshine. i can feel the warmth on my skin for the first time. ❜  

❛ when i'm far away from you, babe, i'm on fire. ❜  

❛ you're no good for me, baby, my sunshine. ❜  

❛ the darkness keeps you shining. ❜  

❛ my enemies hate it 'cause i own my soul. ❜  

❛ long in my life, i wouldn't let love inside. ❜  

❛ i used to hold you before the sun came up. ❜  

❛ i got my finger on the pulse every single time. ❜  

❛ take me back to a time when my blood never tasted like wine. ❜

❛ my love could fill a sea but now i can't even feel the breeze. ❜    

❛ it's better when i'm by myself. ❜    

❛ now i have nothing real left, i want my soul. ❜    

❛ you know i love it when you're angry. ❜    

❛ i don't want you to go away. i found you, i found you. ❜   

❛ well, you used up your borrowed life. ❜    

❛ every time i lost my way, i lost my faith in you. ❜    

❛ hoping that it's worth all the bleeding. ❜    

❛ when I'm defeated give me mercy like you do and forgive me like you. ❜    

❛ you're my only paradise, now i know it's true. ❜    

❛ be precious with my heart, drive me slow. ❜    

❛ i just want to drive, i just want to drive until tomorrow. ❜ 

❛ don't ever think i'll be this happy again, you'll always be a part of me. ❜       

❛ why waste another precious hour? why waste another precious ounce? ❜       

❛ let me close my eyes with dignity. ❜  

❛ so what's the point of staying? it's going up in flames, i know. ❜            

❛ just hold my heartbeat close to you. remember how it always beats for you. ❜            

❛ you know my heart belongs to you. one last time, say that you want me too. ❜   

❛ it's a threat, not a promise. ❜   

❛ you're not heavy, i rocked you to sleep. ❜   

❛ you were never heavy, you were light just like a feather. ❜   

❛ you were never scary, i knew you were special. ❜   

❛ your mama loves you, you'll never be alone. ❜   

❛ whatever we were to each other, that we are still. ❜   

❛ call me by the old, familiar name. ❜   

❛ i should've been sober, but i can't afford to be boring. ❜   

❛ wash me with your fire. ❜   

❛ who else has to pay for my sins? ❜   

❛ my love's fabricated, it's too late to save it. ❜   

❛ burn me with your light, i have no more fights left to win. ❜   

❛ tie me up to face it, i can't run away. ❜   

❛ i took so much more than their lives, they took a piece of me. ❜  

❛ my mother tried to save every ounce of my innocence. i failed her like i failed myself. ❜    

❛ you can ask forgiveness, even when you pray, they will always find a way. ❜    

❛ i don't know what they told you, you're a victim to the lies. ❜    

❛ i wanna show you how it feels. ❜    

❛ they triеd to kill me by a thousand papercuts. ❜

a series of dialogue prompts from the 2021 dracula re-telling.  feel free to change pronouns as you see fit ! cw; gore, sexual themes, emotional abuse, & toxic relationships

❛ i never dreamed it would end like this. ❜ 

❛ there is no horror left in this world that can surprise me. ❜

❛ eventually, even your death becomes its own sort of inevitability. ❜

❛ i was so happy to be your marionette, at first. ❜

❛ am i sick to still think on you softly, even after all the blood and broken promises? ❜

❛ this is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession. ❜

❛ war is never valiant, only crude and hideous. ❜

❛ good. when life fails you, spite will not. ❜

❛ i will raise you out of the dirt and into queenship. and, i will give you your vengeance. ❜

❛ i wanted to break them, even more slowly and painfully than they had broken me, leave them bleeding out and begging for mercy. ❜

❛ water your mother’s flowers with their blood. ❜

❛ in this world, you are what i say you are, and i say you are a ghost. ❜

❛ bloodlust brings on a delirium that’s difficult to describe. ❜

❛ i have loved you too long to imagine you do anything without an ulterior motive. ❜

❛ i’ve never been looked at before. like that. ❜

❛ what is more lovely, after all, than a monster undone with want? ❜

❛ i was your little mouse, kept in a gilded cage until it was time for the cat to play. ❜

❛ i knew nothing except the strength of your arms and the scent of your hair. ❜

❛ your priest’s bedtime stories cannot account for us. ❜

❛ to know oneself, one’s limits and abilities, is its own power. ❜

❛ i was alone, and i was scared. i had no home left to speak of. ❜

❛ and god, how i adored you. it went beyond love, beyond devotion. ❜

❛ i wanted to dash myself against your rocks like a wave, to obliterate my old self and see what rose shining and new from the sea foam. ❜

❛ you turned a strong-minded girl into a pulsing wound of need. ❜

❛ what would you have me do, as ruler? ❜

❛ are you sure you aren’t a holy man come to lecture me on the sins of excess? ❜

❛ i was well-acquainted with violence by then. ❜

❛ but I had never outgrown my thirst for vengeance. ❜

❛ in my mind, i was god’s lovely angel of judgement, come to unsheathe the sword of divine wrath against those who truly deserved it. ❜

❛ you mocked my lofty aspirations, cynical as ever. ❜

❛ when will you give up this ridiculous crusade? ❜

❛ there was a darkness in your eyes and a tightness to your mouth i hadn’t noticed before—or perhaps hadn’t wanted to. ❜

❛ i would never leave you, my love. not for the entirety of my second life. ❜

❛ you seemed to me a fire burning in the woods. i was drawn in by your enticing, smoky darkness, a darkness that still stirs memories of safety, of autumn, of home. ❜

❛ it was like grasping at a flame. i never penetrated to the burning heart of you, only came away with empty, scorched fingers. ❜

❛ whenever we were apart, you left your essence caught in my hair, in my clothes. i scented the taste of it on the wind, I shivered and ached for it. ❜

❛ i was happy to spend countless lifetimes chasing the warmth coming off you, even though the haze was clouding my vision. ❜

❛ my piety was a sporadic, half-feral thing, sometimes lashing out at god with teeth bared, other times nuzzling against his loving providence like a kitten. ❜

❛ i felt my heart tumble down through my ribs and hit the ground. ❜

❛ it tortured me, how perfect you looked. i wanted to pull you behind the carriage and drain you dry. ❜

❛ i wanted to crawl between whatever was blossoming between the two of you and live there. ❜

❛ you’ve found cruelty to be an effective tool. ❜

❛ do you want her for your own? ❜

❛ ours is a solitary existence. it would be good for you to have a friend. ❜

❛ it’s as easy as breathing. one foot and then the other. and don’t overthink it. ❜

❛ you must never overthink any good and pleasurable thing. ❜

❛ you must sit with me tonight at dinner. i must have you close. i want us to be the best of friends. ❜

❛ i think i shall never marry, my lord. i will simply take lovers and never let any man shackle me with wedding vows. ❜

❛ am i to be bidden to my own bed like a dog invited to beg at the master’s table? ❜

❛ desire makes idiots of all of us. but you already knew that part, didn’t you? ❜

❛ there was an uncontrollable fire in you that was hard to look away from, much less resist. ❜

❛ all vampires find some way to stave off the monotony of an endless life, with hedonism or asceticism or a rotating door of lovers. ❜

❛ i’m talking about us, you and i. let’s be honest with each other, for once. ❜

❛ love was no girlhood game. it was an iron yoke, forged in fire and heavy to wear. ❜

❛ laying with you made me feel so vibrantly alive. it was almost enough to make me forget that i was already dead. ❜

❛ this is about your obsession with justice, isn’t it? ❜

❛ i was suspicious, and even more dangerously, i was curious. ❜

❛ i was the love that started it all, wasn’t i? ❜

❛ it has been a long time since i have felt clean. ❜

❛ like christ, i had become intimately acquainted with violence and the sins of the world, but i had not come away unblemished. ❜

❛ but it was not god who spoke.it was you. ❜

❛ you could have kissed me or slit my throat and either would have made as much sense. ❜

❛ i don’t know what I had been thinking, supposing i was strong enough to leave. ❜

❛ you made it into an art form, this quiet sort of violence. ❜

❛ i want to live. but i want to live in the world, not on the outskirts of it. ❜

❛ love is violence, my darling, it is a thunderstorm that tears apart your world. ❜

❛ love makes monsters of us, [ name ] and not everyone is cut out for monstrosity. ❜

❛ [ name], our sunlight, our destroyer. my prince cast in marble and gold. ❜

❛ he was as inevitable as a revolution, and heralded in just as much violence. ❜

❛ potential. you always loved that word. you were drawn to potential like a shark to blood. ❜

❛ look around you. what sort of life is this? ❜

❛ i craved you like maidens crave the grave, the way death burns for human touch: inconsolably, unrelentingly, aching for the annihilation in your kiss. ❜

❛ i still wanted to believe I was living in a fairy tale, that i laid down every night with a prince instead of a wolf. ❜

❛ before your time dear, just some dreadful victorians. ❜

❛ it took every ounce of self-control i had not to pin him down and tear out his throat. ❜

❛ the world has no place for us, we are wanderers by nature, lions among lambs. ❜

❛ we cannot exist only for each other. ❜

❛ i had never allowed myself to want this because i assumed it wasn’t a possibility. ❜

❛ i love you. look at me, [ name ], my jewel, my wife. i love you. don’t do this. ❜

❛ i was tired of waiting expectantly at your tomb every night for you to rise and bring light into my world once again. ❜

❛ i made you into my private christ, supplicated with my own dark devotions. nothing existed beyond the range of your exacting gaze, not even me. ❜

❛ i apologize if you were expecting contrition, my lord. i don’t have any to muster. ❜

❛ here's your demon, do what you will with him. ❜

❛ in all my fairy tales, the witch is always the one that's pretty. ❜

❛ who told you all princesses are kind and pretty? ❜

❛ she hates everyone apart from herself. ❜

❛ who cares about destiny? if someone shows up when you need them, you call that destiny. ❜

❛ my father's soul is dead, but he's physically alive like a zombie. ❜

❛ don't forget any of it. remember it all and overcome it. if you don't overcome it, you'll always be a kid whose soul never grows ❜

❛ you remind me of someone i used to know. a woman whose eyes completely lacked warmth. ❜

❛ i want you to be my safety pin. keep me under control so i won't explode. ❜

❛ there's something we always say to patients who recover. "hope i never see you again." ❜

❛ you're not avoiding me. you're just running away because you're scared. coward.❜

❛ but today, for the first time, i suddenly thought maybe i was just running away because i wanted to. ❜

❛ you see, when life is unbearably hard the easiest way out is to run. ❜

❛ some things can't be torn apart no matter how hard you try to do so. ❜

❛ how can you define a relationship in just one word? every encounter we've had was awfully dramatic, being an inch away from death. ❜

❛ every moment we crossed paths, we surprised each other. if such coincidences, one after another, somehow led us here, how would you define our relationship? ❜

❛ it'd be such a cliche to say that we're destined for each other. ❜

❛ i hope you read a lot of fairy tales and wake up from your dreams ❜

❛ don't look up at the stars in the beautiful night sky. look down at your feet that are stuck in a filthy sewer, accept your reality. ❜

❛ do children have to be useful to their parents? ❜

❛ what do you think i really wanted, satiating my hunger or feeling someone's warmth? warmth—this is what i truly wanted. i didn't want to be just fed. ❜

❛ your lies carry a sense of sincerity. it makes me want to believe them. ❜

❛ it's fine even if it's fake. putting on a smile isn't so hard to do. ❜

❛ is everything yours once you set your eyes on it? if you can't make it yours, you would even destroy it to get your hands on it. ❜

❛ you call that love? that's just obsession and greed. ❜

❛ don't bother wasting your emotions on me. i don't deserve any of that. ❜

❛ i'm sorry for running away when i was the one who liked you first.i regretted it the moment i turned away. ❜

❛ i'm done with being someone who is needed by others. ❜

❛ but the heart is a liar. it stays quiet even when it's hurting. ❜

❛ if you want to be fashionable, you must be uncomfortable and stubborn. ❜

❛ "get lost." do you know how many times you've said that to me? ❜

❛ last night, it sounded like you were begging me not to leave. ❜

❛ last time i ran away, but today i thought i should stay with you. ❜

❛ i think that's why we're meant to be. you're patient and i'm volatile. ❜

❛ like a bomb and its safety pin, we go hand in hand. we're meant to be together. ❜

❛ i feel like you're taming me. ❜

❛ i keep doing things i wouldn't normally do because of you. ❜

❛ he doesn't have anything to offer. i must've thought i could be the one to fill up his empty life. ❜

❛ she has the face of an angel, but there lives a demon inside. ❜

❛ if you keep a secret to yourself, you end up getting frustrated. you need to tell someone in order to relieve your stress. ❜

❛ your rationality can never win against your desires. ❜

❛ she's very lonely, but she doesn't want anyone to know that so she pushes people away. ❜

❛ i told you that i can no longer hold myself back. i guess i can't run away anymore.❜

❛ i dreamed the impossible dream. i should've known my place. ❜

❛ you were like a firecracker to me. a one-time event. i had my fun, so it's time for you to get out of my life. ❜

❛ i'm not a firecracker. i'm a bomb! i don't disappear once i explode. i blow up and kill everyone! ❜

❛ you're not taking me away from him. he now has one more person who will stay by his side. ❜

❛ i don't care who it is. i will not forgive anyone who messes with my family. ❜

❛ are all parents automatically forgiven for all the bad things they did before they die? ❜

❛ the one who neglects and turns a blind eye to the abuse is worse than the abuser.❜

❛ when i see you smile at me, i forget everything else. ❜

❛ stop pretending like it doesn't hurt. stop pretending like you're okay. ❜

❛ you pretending to be okay and me seeing that masked face will make me walk on eggshells around you. it'll suffocate me. i'll be tormented. ❜

❛ the one that torments you can also be the one to save you. ❜

❛ if you can't erase it, you just need to cover it with something better. ❜

❛ i wasn’t in love with him. ❜

❛ i loved him. of course! it was impossible not to. ❜

❛ everyone loved you. everyone wanted to be around you. ❜

❛ i protected him. i was honest with him. ❜

❛ it's just you and me, mate. and the girl with agoraphobia, but she's in her room. ❜

❛ are you telling me you spent your summer reading the bible? ❜

❛ oh no no. not, uh, friend. more an admirer. from afar. ❜

❛ so you're picking apart the style my essay instead of the substance? ❜

❛ it's not what you argue but how. ❜

❛ fuck, that's kind. are you serious? ❜

❛ i don't smoke. ❜

❛ he’s been expelled from almost every school in england for sucking off the teachers. ❜

❛ there aren’t any pictures of me as a kid. ❜

❛ you look different. ❜

❛ harsh! that is so harsh! you’re such a snob! ❜

❛ only rich people can afford to be this filthy. ❜

❛ do you think he'll be jealous? ❜

❛ no, i'm not like you. this is all i have. ❜

❛ this feels a bit fucking stupid now to be honest. ❜

❛ honestly? i don't think i'll ever go home again. ❜

❛ just be yourself! they'll love you! ❜

❛ everybody just goes to ruin, i suppose. ❜

❛ but darling you're kind about everyone, you can't be trusted. ❜

❛ i have a complete and utter horror of ugliness. ❜

❛ because you're a terrible person? ❜

❛ daddy always said that i'd end up at the bottom of the thames. ❜

❛ fucking hell you gave me a fright. ❜

❛ i wanted to have a look at the moon. it's nearly full. do you know what that means? ❜

❛ i'm cold blooded. we're all cold blooded, haven't you noticed? ❜

❛ because you’re so fucking beautiful. ❜

❛ you're in your see-through nightdress underneath my window. ❜

❛ i could just eat you. ❜

❛ lucky for you i'm a vampire. ❜

❛ bring on the slutty fairies. ❜

❛ it's just fucking cringe, mate. ❜

❛ what a little shit-stirrer. ❜

❛ it’s just so disappointing. you're just another one of his toys. ❜

❛ alright, fuck this. i'm getting a drink. ❜

❛ are you going to behave from now on? ❜

❛ i mean, you’re a fucking liar… why would you lie? ❜

❛ ...i just wanted to be your friend. ❜

❛ you can’t ignore me forever. ❜

❛ can you fuck off and bother somebody else? ❜

❛ you really do notice everything don't you? ❜

❛ you can’t just throw me away. ❜

❛ i just gave you what you wanted. like everyone else does! ❜

❛ everyone puts on a show for you. so i’m sorry if my performance wasn’t good enough. ❜

❛ i just need you to understand how much i fucking love you. ❜

❛ i'm still the same person. ❜

❛ i don't know what you are. but i do know you make my fucking blood run cold. ❜

❛ it was the end of everything. ❜

❛ none of us wants your bloody american feelings! ❜

❛ your politeness is so grating. do you know that? ❜

❛ you're always skulking around. weaving your spider web. ❜

❛ i think you're a moth. quiet. harmless. drawn to shiny things. batting up against the window… just desperate to get in. ❜

❛ you've made your holes in everything. you'll eat us from the inside out. ❜

❛ you ate him right up. and you licked the fucking plate.❜

❛ have you been happy? ❜

WELCOME TO MY ISLAND

❛ desire, i want to turn into you. ❜

❛ i am my father's daughter in the end. ❜

❛ watch your ego, watch your head, girl. ❜

❛ but now the water's turning red and it's all your fault and it's all your mess. ❜

❛ you're all alone and can't go to bed, too high on your adrenaline. ❜

❛ you gotta go somewhere where you can't pretend. ❜

❛ go forget the rules, forget your friends. ❜

❛ just you and your reflection, 'cause nothing's gonna be the same again ❜

PRETTY IN POSSIBLE

❛ time's running out, innit? ❜

❛ down in the deep end i can't be left alone. ❜

❛ potential is the drug, they never knew you never tried. ❜

❛ oracle and oddysey with the bloody nose. ❜

❛ if i'm on your street, you'll be the last to know. ❜

❛ i cannot afford that kind of free. ❜

❛ well, how does it feel? being so rich. ❜

❛ now you got one eyе on the lane and one еye on the lava. ❜

❛ i was born to get you home. ❜

❛ home, where it's all red and velveteen, falling back into the leaves. ❜

❛ with your lipstick on my thigh, drink the tears until they dry. ❜

BUNNY IS A RIDER

❛ no sympathy, hm? ain't nothing for free. ❜

❛ but i'm so non-physical. ❜

❛ my heart is unbreaking. ❜

❛ don't drop my name. ❜

❛ tryna go ask alice, tryna catch that rabbit. ❜

SUNSET

❛ these days, i wear my body like an uninvited guest. ❜

❛ your patience is a magic kind of medicine. ❜

❛ 'cause every spiral brings me back into your arms again. ❜

❛ no regrets, 'cause you're my sunset, fiery red, forever fearless. ❜

❛ in your arms, a warm horizon. ❜

❛ don't look back, let's ride away. ❜

❛ so many stories we were told about a safety net but when i look for it, it's just a hand that's holding mine. ❜

❛ i'm wearing black to mourn thе sudden loss of innocence. ❜

CRUDE DRAWING OF AN ANGEL

❛ draw the blinds, draw the bath. ❜

❛ it's a matter of time 'til you wake up and watch me. ❜

❛ oh, my fault. oh, my greed. oh, your need. ❜

❛ angel, i'd hold you down. ❜

❛ forsake me here on the ground, all or nothing. ❜

❛ draw your blood, draw your breath. ❜

❛ wake up and watch me draw your wings from your back. ❜

❛ i'll not be shy, no, i'll not be gentle with you. ❜

I BELIEVE

❛ look over the edge, but not too far. ❜

❛ you're not alone, under a sky of vultures. ❜

❛ you made it home, with silver string unbroken. ❜

❛ ain't that the sweetest gift? ❜

❛ little miracle, swing low, where there can be no compromises down low. ❜

❛ i don't know, but i believe we'll get another day together. ❜

❛ violent love, feel my embrace. ❜

❛ i'd have said it was impossible, to find you in this life and keep you just enough. ❜

FLY TO YOU

❛ i wanted to hate you but i love you instead ❜

❛ violence made me gentle at last. ❜

❛ closer and closer and closer to you… baby, i'm dying to find out. ❜

❛ i fly to you, after all the tears, you're all I need. ❜

❛ will you still love me after the bend? ❜

❛ remеmber what's gone beforе not loaded with regret. ❜

BLOOD AND BUTTER

❛ i know the mode, the mode is lethal. ❜

❛ say you wanna show me a place. the place is here, the here is inside you. ❜

❛ where did you come from, you? ❜

❛ pretty with the critical mass, your body has the body power. ❜

❛ what i want is to walk beside you, needing nothing, but the sun that's in our eyes. ❜

❛ paint the picture in blood and butter, holy water, fire in the sky. ❜

❛ lеt me dive through your face to thе sweetest kind of pain. ❜

❛ no, i don't need no entertaining when the world is a bed. ❜

❛ oh, let me get closer than your new tattoo. ❜

❛ look how i forget who i was before i was the way i am with you. ❜

HOPEDRUNK EVERASKING

❛ how does it feel to know your final form? ❜

❛ pull close to me and never be alone. ❜

❛ real life is a rumor under the theatre. ❜

❛ they'll find our bones and yet they won't. ❜

❛ dawn is just a headspace, night is a feeling. ❜

❛ centuries come and go, thеy'll find our bones. ❜

BUTTERFLY NET

❛ where you appeared to me…a tender creature, a fever, disarming, and fluorescent. ❜

❛ there you were with your mirror, shining the world all over me. ❜

❛ there i was with my butterfly net, trying to catch your light. ❜

❛ i collected stupid ashes so that after you'd gone i could hold onto something. ❜

❛ but you stayed unwavering through every false goodbye; unsubsiding, pining, for now and for never. ❜

❛ faithful inertia, her bullet doesn't slow it seeks and finds me ❜

❛ heaven help me, take this bag of wings and drown it in the thames. ❜

SMOKE

❛ it's just smoke, floating over the volcano. ❜

❛ go on, you know i can't say no. ❜

❛ you are the big answer tonight, and you are melting everything about me. ❜

❛ don't worry about me, it's just smoke. ❜

❛ the fallout doesn't faze me, i take a bullet for my baby. ❜

❛throw it all out and replace it with a brand new kind of crazy. ❜

❛ don't believe it when you praise me, do i? ❜

BILLIONS

❛ psycho, priceless, good in a crisis. ❜

❛ lies like a sailor but he loves like a painter. ❜

❛ hand it over, give me the closure. ❜

❛ he's a pearl, i'm the oyster. ❜

SO NICE

❛ how refreshing, you crush all the competition ❜

❛ you can ask me if i'm busy tonight, i could be free for you and me ❜

❛ maybe we could go for a drive ❜

❛ keep it easy because i'm kinda independent ❜

❛ i really need to stay on your mind ❜

❛ no other guy can help me fly and hold me down at the same time ❜

❛ he's the kind of superstar that would only steal your heart ❜

❛ i'm back in the middle of what could be complicated ❜

❛ say whatever comes through your mind ❜

❛ he's my cup of tea, sugar on my street ❜

❛ apple of my eye, he took me by surprise ❜

❛ you swept off my feet, i hope you never leave me ❜

BAD THING TWICE

❛ i don't remember, i don't remember you ❜

❛ i try not to go there, i need a spotless mind ❜

❛ i was born in november, you were born in a different moon ❜

❛ what do you want this time? ❜

❛ cross the rivers of my mind, you're my little rock skipper ❜

❛ every time I close my eyes, you're my little heart hiccup ❜

❛ is it my destiny? i wanna do a bad thing twice ❜

❛ can't stop feeling the rain beforе the thunder ❜

❛ i thought it through and i wanna do a bad thing twice ❜

❛ you were the king and i was a soldier, babe ❜

❛ i fought for your attention, fought for your lonely eyes ❜

❛ i had a vision i had to run away ❜

❛ let's play this thing over, i wanna go back in time ❜

❛ caught that fever, i shouldn't be here ❜

SHOOTING STAR

❛ i might sleep with you tonight ❜

❛ just because summertime and you look fine ❜

❛ press my back against the door ❜

❛ can't believe i've been gone so long ❜

❛ just sweat all my fears away ❜

❛ saw your angel face, caught my shooting star ❜

❛ i got you now, i'm Scorpio ❜

❛ i believe there's a true connеction with you and me ❜

❛ we could keep the lights on, baby ❜

❛ if i play the right tune, would you give me all you, baby? ❜

GO FIND YOURSELF OR WHATEVER

❛ tell me that your mind's been changing ❜

❛ i tell you that i'm no good at goodbyes ❜

❛ i could cut a thousand roses, show you that i'm all torn up inside ❜

❛ you feel safe in sorrow ❜

❛ go find yourself or whatever ❜

❛ i wake up hollow, you made me vulnerable ❜

❛ i hope it treats you better than i could do ❜

❛ i'll wait for you ❜

❛ tell me that we'll meet up someday ❜

❛ i tell you that I'm no good telling lies ❜

❛ maybe when my heart's done breaking then i could forgive what you tried ❜

❛ but every time the red moon rises i'll stay up and I'll keep some hope inside ❜

THE LONELIEST TIME

❛ i've had one of those bad dreams, Where we're standing on your street ❜

❛ i quit smoking those cigarettes but i'm never gettin' over it ❜

❛  our story, never finished it, because our love, we never finished it ❜

❛ i'm coming over tonight, knocking on your door just like before ❜

❛ i need that look in your eyes ❜

❛ we'vе had the loneliest timе ❜

❛ i'm thinking all through the night, i could be yours just like before ❜

❛ baby, leave the light on for me ❜

❛ i've had more of those bad dreams ❜

❛ i went running, but i couldn't catch just the shadow of your silhouette ❜

❛ let's save "sorry" for another night ❜

❛ because this time, love, we're gonna get it right ❜

❛ but you know what? i'm coming back for you, baby❜

ANXIOUS

❛ i thought love would keep me satisfied ❜

❛ i want more than what they advertise ❜

❛ boy, you got a reputation ❜

❛ i get anxious, because i need a little head room ❜

❛ could we move it to the bedroom? ❜

❛ i should cool it off, i know you're tired ❜

❛ i never take my own advice and you're so rational ❜

❛ but you didn't even notice i was jealous of your company  ❜

NO THINKING OVER THE WEEKEND

❛ i was looking for you on the beach ❜

❛ when it's good, why's it always out of reach? ❜

❛ someone sent me flowers ❜

❛ wake me up when you're ready for the water ❜

❛ do you think about star signs? ❜

❛ my lips havе no secrets ❜

❛ this love has no limit ❜

❛ i'm in the spirit for dreaming, no thinking ❜

❛ i tried, but i couldn't get away with it ❜

❛ this love has no limit ❜

KEEP AWAY

❛ hands touch all night, i remember ❜

❛ i stayed behind and you were tender ❜

❛ in my whole life, i wish i never knew this kind of love ❜

❛ think you're onto me, hard to keep it cool, i know you want me too ❜

❛ i’m trying to keep away from you, i can't control the things i do ❜

❛ i miss your hands over my body ❜

❛ you've made your mind up and i surrender ❜

❛ my heart was blind, i wish i never knew this kind of love ❜

❛ just one word from you and i'm all out of reason ❜

SURRENDER MY HEART

❛ i’ve been tryin' hard to open up ❜

❛ when i lost someone, it hit me rough ❜

❛ she said to me, "soften up" ❜

❛ i'm sorry if i push your good away, especially when i'm needing you to stay ❜

❛ i know you hate that i still test your love  ❜

❛ i'm tryin' not to fuck this up  ❜

❛ all the broken hearts that i broke before they could break me  ❜

❛ i won't bring that mess to you when you're with me  ❜

❛ i wanna be brave enough to show you my not-so-perfect family  ❜

❛ i wanna be brave enough for everything ❜

❛ i want to get closer  ❜

❛ surrender my heart, i want to be open, i want to be honest with you ❜

❛ i used to soldier through my hardest days ❜

❛ i used to switch it off, ignore the pain ❜

❛ i'll believe in you every night ❜

JOSHUA TREE

❛ i drove miles away to finally feel alone ❜

❛ there is no moon in sight ❜

❛ i'm in the moment, living undercover ❜

❛ california dreaming is never what it seems ❜

❛ but here it comes, i know what i must do now ❜

❛ give me paradise. ❜

❛ i'll eclipse the stars and fall like ones before. ❜

❛ i'm like aphrodite ❜

❛ it's fine to only know the things i know ❜

❛ i'm feeling dramatic, i like the moon and the magic of this. ❜

TALKING TO YOURSELF 

❛ i was always invisible ❜

❛ consequences are difficult to face ❜

❛ we could have been something beautiful, but you made it impossible to stay ❜

❛ so tell me what you got on your mind ❜

❛ am i keeping you up at night? ❜

❛ i’ll never let you be ❜

❛ are you thinking of me when you're with somebody else? ❜

❛ so you talk to me when you're talking to yourself? ❜

❛ are you reaching for me, making love to someone else? ❜

❛ does it kill you that you're thinking of me? ❜

FAR AWAY

❛ i'd give this love a second try ❜

❛ i just imagined all your qualities and that's my fault ❜

❛ i'd like to get to know you ❜

❛ let me kiss all of these tears coming down ❜

❛ your face is calming me down, maybe i'll just stop thinking ❜

❛ just tell me you need me side by side ❜

❛ trying not to talk first 'cause words don't mean authority ❜

❛ you look powerful just standing tall in front of me ❜

❛ i heard a night bird singing, the sweetest words of my whole life ❜

SIDEWAYS

❛ smudged red lipstick on you and i'm so satisfied ❜

❛ now i smile at strangers, i’m that annoying type ❜

❛ later we'll meet at your place ❜

❛ ever since you said that you were mine, everything is going my way ❜

❛ i like to get my way, even when things go sideways ❜

❛ one more cutе disaster ❜

❛ i get all my confidence from you ❜

❛ said, "i love you" twice, bеfore you could even answer ❜

❛ i'm living to look at your face ❜

BEACH HOUSE

❛ saw he was nervous, i thought it was cute ❜

❛ boy number two had a beautiful face ❜

❛ i highly agreed to go back to his place ❜

❛ his wife really had some impeccable taste ❜

❛ i've been on this ride before ❜

❛ i'm probably gonna hurt your feelings ❜

❛ i'm probably gonna hurt you ❜

❛ i can see the future ❜

❛ he brought up his ex and he started to cry ❜

❛ told me he loved me the very first night ❜

❛ who knows what i'm in for ❜

❛ i got big plans to take care of you ❜

BENDS

❛ long day, i didn't feel so good ❜

❛ i’m lonely, am I being sensitive? ❜

❛ you are the sensitive one ❜

❛ to see you, how can this be life? ❜

❛ i can feel the sun on you, warm me up the way you do ❜

❛ here's a jar of tears i've cried, keep it in a sacred place ❜

❛ hold me in your humble grace ❜

❛ i can feel the darkness sometimes too ❜

❛ swim out to me, baptize me indigo ❜

❛ in tree forts, i'll see you ❜

❛ true wild one, where are you tonight? ❜

❛ where's your home tonight? ❜

❛ i can feel the darkness sometimes too, but i can feel the sun on you ❜

WESTERN WIND

❛ we were pressed into the breeze up on the mountain, i was by your side ❜

❛ do you remember a conversation with our heads against the pillow? ❜

❛ i was on your side ❜

❛ do you feel home from all directions? ❜

❛ first bloom, you know it's spring, reminding me that it's all connected ❜

❛ what is love? coming in like a western wind ❜

❛ take me back into your corner, to the center of the room we made a dancefloor ❜

❛ i was charmed to let go ❜

❛ do not, however, make the mistake of thinking that all desire is yearning. ❜

❛  please do not write to tell me about any more beautiful blue things. ❜

❛  we don’t get to choose what or whom we love. we just don’t get to choose. ❜

❛  perhaps the same could be said of the heart. ❜

❛  but whether there is a violence at work here remains undecided. ❜

❛  thus begins the adventure, the high romance, the romance of seeking. ❜

❛  blue is something of an ecstatic accident produced by void and fire. ❜

❛  and the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. ❜

❛  and what kind of madness is it anyway, to be in love with something constitutionally incapable of loving you back? ❜

❛  are you sure that it cannot love you back? ❜

❛  can it die? does it have a heart?  ❜

❛  but how can it be? how can it be? was i too blue for you. was i too blue. ❜

❛  is there a good kind of hustler? ❜

❛  i have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. i have been finding this hard to do. ❜

❛  loneliness is solitude with a problem.  ❜

❛  mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. i am still looking for the beauty in that.  ❜

❛  what I know: when i met you, a blue rush began. i want you to know, i no longer hold you responsible. ❜

❛  can a reflection be a witness? can one pass oneself the sponge wet with vinegar from a reed?  ❜

❛  this is how much i miss you talking. this is the deepest blue, talking, talking, always talking to you. ❜

❛  but please don’t write again to tell me how you have woken up weeping. i already know how you are in love with your weeping. ❜

❛  this is generous, for to be close to your pain has always felt like a privilege to me. ❜

❛  at times i have heard it said that we don’t dream in color. but surely this is a mistake. ❜

❛  for who would be so concerned about a flower in this world? i’ve never heard of anyone being in love with a flower. ❜

❛  thus begins the adventure, the high romance, the romance of seeking. ❜

❛  one of the last times you came to see me, you were wearing a pale blue button-down shirt, short-sleeved. i wore this for you, you said. ❜

❛  i’m in love with you both in completely different ways.  ❜

❛  eventually you will have to give up this love, it has a morbid heart.  ❜

❛  whenever i speak of faith, i am not speaking of faith in god. ❜

❛  we cannot read the darkness. we cannot read it. it is a form of madness, albeit a common one, that we try.  ❜

❛  to take a breath of water: does the thought panic or excite you?  ❜

❛  to see blue in deeper and deeper saturation is eventually to move toward darkness. ❜

❛  what depression ever felt like a fire? ❜

❛  rather than your face as a young woman, i prefer your face as it is now. ravaged. ❜

❛  to wish to forget how much you loved someone—and then, to actually forget—can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose to make a habitat of your heart. ❜

❛ this acceptance bewilders me: sometimes it seems an act of will; at others, of surrender. ❜

❛ i suppose it is possible that one day we will meet again and it will feel as if nothing ever happened between us. ❜

❛ i believe in the possibility—the inevitability, even—of a fresh self stepping into ever-fresh waters. ❜

❛ letting a particularly potent person inside you, can alter you irrevocably. ❜

❛  it often happens that we treat pain as if it were the only real thing: everything before it, around it, and, perhaps, in front of it, tends to seem fleeting, delusional. ❜

❛  perhaps, in time, i will also stop missing you. ❜

❛  in any case, i am no longer counting the days. ❜

❛  i want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when i would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words.  ❜

❛  but now you are talking as if love were a consolation. ❜

❛  love is not consolation, it is light...  ❜

PART ONE, BEFORES

❛ they see you closer than you are, but you’re further from reach than either you or they can imagine. ❜

❛ what are you thinking about today? ❜

❛ maybe tomorrow, everything would be different. ❜

❛ take me home, stranger. ❜

❛ maybe we should break up. ❜

❛ you’re one of those brainy fucks, right? ❜

❛ your future self will always see what your present self is blind to. ❜

❛ cigarettes are extremely out of fashion. and they’re bad for you. ❜

PART TWO, CONVERSATIONS

❛ you’re obviously a very good liar, ❜

❛ if i were a liar, wouldn’t my lies be extremely valuable currency to me? ❜

❛ i don’t think we’re really capable of loving the things our parents love. ❜

❛ can you make this less like an interview, please? ❜

❛ the point is, you’re observing me too closely. ❜

❛ i was formerly a thief. ❜

❛ did you get the lies you came for? ❜

❛ you want to puzzle me out like a math problem. ❜

❛ crime doesn’t make a person complex, everyone has a history. ❜

❛ do you want me to leave you alone? ❜

❛ i want to see what you see. ❜

❛ are you interested in me? ❜

❛ i’m not trying to predict you. i’m trying to understand you. ❜

❛ couldn’t you predict me if you understood me? ❜

❛ i like it, your brain. ❜

❛ right, one impossibility at a time. ❜

❛ i wasn’t really thinking about you, to be honest. ❜

❛ it’s very… austere, isn’t it? ❜

❛ i could study you for a lifetime, carrying all of your peculiarities and discretions in the webs of my spidery palms, and still feel empty-handed. ❜

❛ don’t hold hands with anyone ever again. ❜ 

❛ there she is. queen of chaos. ❜  

❛ don’t worry, you’ll fit perfectly. don’t worry, there’s nothing here for you to break. ❜

❛ there, now it looks like somebody cares about you. ❜

❛ there is nothing worse than being predictable. nothing smaller than feeling ordinary. ❜

❛  so don’t speak. just stay here with me, just breathe. ❜

❛  haven’t you been paying enough attention to run? ❜

❛  don’t go, just stay. settle over me like the tide, cover me like a blanket, wrap around me like the sun.❜

❛ i think that, for someone to get close to you, you must have to give them one key at a time. and even then, only one level can be opened at once. ❜

❛ you know, it’s poor form to accuse a lady of lying all the time.❜

PART THREE, KEYS

❛ do you imagine things? Is your life a dream or a chart? ❜

❛ come closer, let’s see what happens, let’s see how the stars shine on your skin. ❜

❛ i know you’re not stupid. that’s the worst part. ❜

❛ all this time we’ve been talking and you’ve been syncopating your breath to mine and your pulse to mine and your thoughts to my thoughts, you’ve been learning how to love me, haven’t you? ❜

❛ if i am a lover of impossible problems then you will have loved me for my impossibilities. ❜

❛ what else matters but this, me, us? ❜

❛ am i imagining this? ❜

❛ i want to see your art. ❜

❛ this night is stolen, i want grand larceny and this is petty theft. ❜

❛ austere. it’s a cold word. ❜

❛ you have never understood beauty and all the worse for you, you never will. ❜

❛ i am more addicted to the thought of your name on my tongue than i am to any other form of vice. ❜

❛ the thought of having you is more dangerous than any cocktail of drugs, the idea of belonging to you endlessly destructive. ❜

❛ it’s a fire. i used to burn out, now i just burn.❜

❛ his name is written on my skin, he scarred me. ❜

❛ you just seem like you’re looking for something to overwhelm you.❜

❛ you can’t fix me. ❜

❛ i don’t see anything to fix. ❜

❛ thank you for the shape you took in my life but it’s over now, it doesn’t fit. ❜

PART FOUR, FIRSTS

❛ something is wrong with us, we are unwell, no one has ever felt any of this without destruction. ❜

❛ empires have fallen like this. ❜

❛ my god, what a waste of time doing anything else but holding you. ❜

❛ jesusfuckingchrist what have you done to me? ❜

❛ go on, ruin me. wreck me, please. ❜

❛ am i the girl who stays while others leave? ❜

❛ i love your brain.❜

❛ can you love my brain even when it is small? when it is malevolent? when it’s violent? can you love it when it doesn’t love me? ❜

❛ i’m going to tell you my secrets. ❜

❛ come home with me. ❜

❛ i want your future, i want it for me. ❜

❛ i’m going to replace those memories, i’m taking them back for me. ❜

❛ i want you to say everything, anything. i want to have your thoughts, i want to bottle them, i want to put them in my drawer for safekeeping. ❜

❛ jesus, we’re fucked, aren’t we? ❜

PART FIVE, VARIABLES

❛ come outside, come look at the stars. ❜

❛ i worry that if you try to keep up with her, you’ll burn out. ❜

❛ you’re wrong about her. ❜

❛ ether is what they called the air in the realm of the gods. a shining, fluid substance. ❜

❛ you poor thing, what a curse. i wonder which god you angered.❜

❛ you can’t just live in your past lives. ❜

❛ so this is what it is to love something you cannot control, it feels precisely like terror. ❜

❛ i thought you’d be sick of me by now. ❜

❛ every time you love, pieces of you break off and get replaced by something you steal from someone else. ❜

❛ yes, it is perilously wonderful to suffer so sweetly with you. ❜

❛ can’t you see how intangibly i exist, and how perilously? ❜

❛ will I always fear him as much as I love him? ❜

PART SIX, TURNS

❛ you really haven’t changed, have you? ❜

❛ you can always undream me, unbelieve me. ❜

❛ i’m strange, okay we’re both strange, nobody understands us except for us. ❜

❛ you think i don’t know that there’s something wrong with me? ❜

❛ i think you need me more than you want me. ❜

❛ there’s a difference between cravings and compulsions. ❜

❛ i love your brain even when i fear it. ❜

❛ have i already destroyed this little fledgling thing i tried to nurture? ❜

❛ whatever you are made of, i am made of it, too. ❜

❛ it isn’t pretty, it’s lonely, it’s desolate, it’s a chilling portrait of vastness. ❜

❛ she does burn me, she ignites me. ❜

❛ she is my hope and for that she is dangerous, unequivocally, but she is also alive, unreservedly. ❜

❛ it’s you and me right now, stranger ❜

❛ it’s you and me alone in the ether, and you don’t even know it yet. ❜

❛ this is what it looks like to love you; it looks like an abyss. ❜

❛ all falls come with danger, but not us. not us, we float. ❜

❛ he has made my dreams come true and i have given him what he desires most in return... ❜

❛ yes. maybe he's the most demanding man ... ❜

❛ there's nothing i can say to get your attention aimed back at me, is there? ❜

❛ i cannot begin my day with a confrontation, please. ❜

❛ it's the most lovely thing i've ever seen. ❜

❛ it makes me feel like i have courage. ❜

❛ comforting to think the dead can watch the living. i don't find that spooky at all. ❜

❛ will you remember? ❜

❛ may I take you to dinner? ❜

❛ for the hungry boy, my name is [ … ] ❜

❛ i like to see who i'm talking to. ❜

❛ that's beautiful, your secrets. ❜

❛ your things are so well arranged. ❜

❛ my sister is a terror maybe she'll be a great dictator some day — ❜

❛ if you want to have a staring contest with me you will lose. ❜

❛ you look like a bird to me sometimes — or an alligator. ❜

❛ you're a very handsome man. ❜

❛ why aren't you married? ❜

❛ i am quite certain i was never meant to marry. ❜

❛ marriage would only make me deceitful and i don't ever want that. ❜

❛ you sound so sure about things. ❜

❛ you're just acting strong… for who? not for me, i hope. ❜

❛ it is only the expectations and assumptions of others that cause heart ache… ❜

❛ and who's this lovely creature making the house smell so nice? ❜

❛ i feel as if i've been looking for you for a very long time. ❜

❛ well here i am..  you found me. ❜

❛ whatever you do, do it carefully … ❜

❛ but in his work i become perfect and i feel just right. ❜

❛ you look beautiful, really. very beautiful. you're making me extremely hungry. ❜

❛ my little carnivore. ❜

❛ what are you looking so forlorn about, hm? ❜

❛ maybe one day you'll change your taste, ❜

❛ perhaps i'm looking for trouble. ❜

❛ if that's your wish, i hope it comes true for you. ❜

❛ have you had enough to eat? you seem thirsty. ❜

❛ i think he's being too fussy... ❜

❛ let me drive for you. ❜

❛ when he's like this, he's very tender. ❜

❛ what do you want me to do with that? ❜

❛ accept her invitation. if you can stomach it. ❜

❛ i know you're doing the best you can. ❜

❛ i'm afraid i must insist that you come. ❜

❛ i brought sincerity into his life. ❜

❛ go on, give us a kiss for the cameras. ❜

❛ how beautiful you are. ❜

❛ when you dream about your wedding dress, what is it that you dream? ❜

❛ are you a gold person or a silver person? ❜

❛ i'm trying to surprise him and love him the way that i want to. ❜

❛ i have to know him in my own way, ❜

❛ let me collect myself for a moment. ❜

❛ she's very beautiful, like a sculpture of some kind. ❜

❛ this is meant to be a nice evening. ❜

❛ let me serve you. ❜

❛ usually, you always tell me what you think. ❜

❛ i don't know what i'm doing here. ❜

❛ i wanted time with you. i wanted to have you to myself. ❜

❛ you have me all the time. ❜

❛ is it because you think i don't need you? ❜

❛ are you a special agent sent here to ruin my evening and possibly my entire life? ❜

❛ do you have a gun? you here to kill me? ❜

❛ stop playing this game! ❜

❛ what game? what precisely is the nature of my game? ❜

❛ why don't you just fuck off to back where you came from? ❜

❛ if you're going to make her a ghost, go ahead and do it. ❜

❛ don't let her sit around waiting for you. ❜

❛ don't pick a fight with me, you certainly won't come out alive. ❜

❛ i don't know what the hell came over me. ❜

❛ i've never really felt like this before. ❜

❛ i'll take care of you.❜

❛ i think this is clear. he wants you to fuck off. ❜

❛ i miss you. i think about you all the time. ❜

❛ i hear your voice say my name when i dream. ❜

❛ i just miss you, it's as simple as that. ❜

❛ i want to tell you everything. ❜

❛ i don't ever want to be without you. ❜

❛ there are things nagging at me. things i simply cannot do without you. ❜

❛ a house that doesn't change is a dead house.❜

❛ will you marry me? ❜

❛ i probably owe you an apology of some kind. ❜

❛ how do you know how my life has been? ❜

❛ i want to go dancing. ❜

❛ there is an air of quiet death in this house. ❜

❛ i want you flat on your back. helpless. tender. open. with only me to help. ❜

❛ you're not going to die. you might wish you were going to die, but you're not going to. ❜

❛ kiss me, my girl, before i'm sick. ❜

❛ if he wasn't here tomorrow, no matter. for i know he'd be waiting for me in the afterlife. ❜

❛ i want to try and be terrific. even for an hour. ❜

❛ people have done this before, but not us. ❜

❛ we point at it; poke at it like a wound— ❜

❛ i don’t want to be only the landscape. ❜

❛ i want to give you something, or i want to take something from you. but i want to feel the exchange. ❜

❛ maybe we could meet at that table under the tree. ❜

❛ why must we practice this surrender? ❜

❛ i haven’t given up on trying to live a good life. ❜

❛ i wanted to tell you straight away so we could grieve together. ❜

❛ what is it they say, heartsick or downhearted? ❜

❛ i liked so much to talk to someone in the dark. ❜

❛ but i swear i will play on this blessed earth until i die. ❜

❛ tell them you didn’t come to disturb the night air and throw a fit, then get down in the dark and do it. ❜

❛ i’m afraid that I won’t do the right thing in the face of disaster. ❜

❛ i was suddenly some safer form of fire. ❜

❛ i thought everything was behind me: death, and dying, and sickness. ❜

❛ i didn’t know I was changing my life— that i would have done anything that what was left of me would become so ruthless to survive. ❜

❛ you’re the muscle i cut from the bone and still the bone remembers, still it wants. ❜

❛ but love is impossible and it goes on despite the impossible. ❜

❛ i’m cold in my heart. ❜

❛ i tell you i will love someone that you will never meet. ❜

❛ i think, how scared i would be if i were death. ❜

❛ is it weird to say that i could hear you dying like that? ❜

❛ after it was done, i couldn’t go back to my life. ❜

❛ it wasn’t the same. i couldn’t tell if i loved myself more or less. ❜

❛ i am beautiful. i am full of love. i am dying. ❜

❛ let me slip into a life less messy. ❜

❛ we’ll live forever. every moon will be a moon of surrender. ❜

❛ i want to be the rough clothes you can’t sleep in. ❜

❛ how good it is to love live things, even when what they’ve done is terrible. ❜

❛ i never knew survival was like that. ❜

❛ the tempting, the taking, the apple, the fall, every one of us guilty, the story of us all. ❜

❛ i lowered my head until the thud was done. you killed it quiet. ❜

❛ i’ve always been a jealous girl. ❜

❛ before now, i don’t know if i have ever loved anyone. ❜

❛ oh my new obsession, his hands! i thought i could die. ❜

❛ all night i thought i’d die when the moon came in. ❜

❛ i used to pretend a lot. i’m very good at it. ❜

❛ i imagine the insides of myself sometimes—part female, part male, part terrible dragon. ❜

❛ no one’s going to tell me when to bow down, when not to bite. ❜

❛ what’s the real story? i had to hurt someone. ❜

❛ i had to hurt someone who had loved him. ❜

❛ i’m not afraid of hate anymore. ❜

❛ what do we do with grief? lug it; lug it. ❜

❛ i couldn’t cut it out of me. ❜

❛ see? the knife i carry? it cuts my smile even wider. ❜

❛ i will shush and remain the quiet flyer, the one warm beast still coming to you in the dark despite all those old, cold, claustrophobic stars. ❜

❛ this night might leave us hungry and reeling. ❜

❛ we were simply going forward, riotous and windswept. ❜

❛ what I mean is: none of this is chaos. ❜

❛ how masterful and mad is hope. ❜

❛ you wake up some days full of crow and shine. ❜

❛ sometimes, you just want something so hard you have to lie about it, so you can hold it in your mouth for a minute. ❜

❛ real hunger has a real taste. ❜

❛ let me start here: i am as cold as i have ever been. ❜

❛ such was the wreck of the two of us. ❜

❛ isn’t it funny? how the cold numbs everything but grief. ❜

❛ if we could light up the room with pain, we’d be such a glorious fire. ❜

❛ i am gleaming. promise you’ll see me gleam. ❜

❛ wickedness has leaked into the home i made, and i want to burn it down. ❜

❛ i crave demolishing, to eat explosives. ❜

❛ mortal me, brutal disaster born out of so much greed. ❜

❛ the largeness in me, the hot gore of my want and want, wants to disarm the fixedness of this. ❜

❛ i’ll be the strike anywhere, the reckless match you can count on to claim a life, or to save one. ❜

❛ i’d choose the moon, always the sister moon.❜

THE TRADITION

❛ she's easy on the eyes. ❜

❛ her soul is black and it's a fact. ❜

❛ so take what you want, take what you can, take what you please. ❜

❛ ask for forgiveness, never permission. ❜

❛ It's in the blood and this is tradition. ❜

❛ they dress her up in golden crowns, her smile hides a lie. ❜

❛ you can take it back it's good as gone. ❜

❛ this is your soul, i hope what's left will last all summer long. ❜

❛ they said that boys were boys but they were wrong. ❜

BELLS IN SANTE FE

❛ don't call me by my name, all of this is temporary. ❜

❛ watch as i step away, for your sake. ❜

❛ maybe i can hold you in the dark. ❜

❛ leaving through the door without a word. you won't even notice, little bird. ❜

❛ better off dead, so i reckon i'm heading to hell instead. ❜

❛ don't wait for me, it's not a happy ending. ❜

❛ to sort out all his bullshit, to figurе out the treason ❜

❛ jesus, you've got better lips than judas. ❜

❛ i could give you bad one, otherwise i'm useless. ❜

❛ 'cause who the fuck would choose this? ❜

EASIER THAN LYING 

❛ i'm only whatever you make me. ❜

❛ you make me more and more a villain every day. ❜

❛ you don’t know you reap, you sow. ❜

❛ whatever you give to me from yourself you take. ❜

❛ well if you're a hater then hate the creator, it's in your image i’m made. ❜

❛ 'cause i'll hang myself if you'd give me rope. ❜

❛ i got so much faith and lost all hope. ❜

❛ one eye broken and one eye bruised, ‘cause I gave myself away for you. ❜

❛ you liar, you don't love me too. ❜

❛ my heart is massive but it's empty. ❜

❛ gasping for some real attention, some undivided hypertension. ❜

❛ losing you is easier than lying to myself. ❜

LILITH

❛ i'm perfection when it comes to first impressions. ❜

❛ you got me thinkin' that i was too mean. ❜

❛ everything that I say I believe. ❜

❛ tuck a knife with my heart up my sleeve. ❜

❛ i am disruptive, i've been corrupted. ❜

❛ by now I don't need a fuckin' introduction. ❜

❛ you know I get too caught up in the moment. ❜

❛ i can't call it love if i show it. ❜

❛ i just fuck things up if you notice. ❜

❛ have you noticed? tell me, have you noticed? ❜

❛ now i'm wondering if i ever wanted to hold you. ❜

❛ you'd let anybody with a body control you, and you know it too. ❜

❛ the more that you have, the more that they'll take. ❜

GIRL IS A GUN

❛ i'm not your daydream, i won't have your baby. ❜

❛ it's a shot in the dark, i'm not a walk in the park. ❜

❛ this girl is a gun, and we been havin' some fun. ❜

❛ i can show you if you turn the lights on. ❜

❛ i keep waitin' for love to come and swallow me up. ❜

❛ I feel better when the boys stop callin'. ❜

❛ this girl is a gun, before you know it, it's done. ❜

❛ god is a gun, he can have what he wants. ❜

❛ let me show you how to touch my trigger. ❜

❛ makin' me crazy from mornin' to evenin'. ❜

❛ i can't not take it, i love it, i break it. ❜

❛ it's never enough, so I'm givin' you up. ❜

YOU ASKED FOR THIS

❛ i don't know what you want from me. ❜

❛ now what the fuck does all this mean? ❜

❛ my tears are falling flawlessly now. ❜

❛ go on and be a big girl, you asked for this now. ❜

❛ who the hell is in your bed? ❜

❛ you gotta kiss goodnight and give some head. ❜

❛ i want my cake on a silver plater, i want a fistful in my hands. ❜

❛ i want a beautiful boy's despondent laughter. ❜

❛ i wanna ruin all my plans. ❜

❛ i want a fist around my throat. ❜

❛ i wanna cry so hard, i choke. ❜

❛ i want everything i ask for. ❜

DARLING

❛ really can't remember where i left my spine. ❜

❛ maybe I'll be better if I take my meds. ❜

❛ darling don't you weep, there's a place for me. ❜

❛ somewhere we can sleep, see you in your dreams. ❜

❛ ever since i was a little girl i found this sweet. ❜

❛ all the little flowers give me something to believe in. ❜

❛ never knew the feeling of a stable home, been a couple years of living on the road. ❜

❛ only you have showed me how to love me in a life. ❜

❛ until it's time to see the light, i'll make my own with you each night. ❜

❛ i'll kidnap all the stars and i will keep them in your eyes. ❜

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❛ i won't die for love, but i've got a body here to bury. ❜

❛ the parts of myself that i've hated... i can't tell which ones are mine and which I created. ❜

❛ you could have my heart and i would break it for you. ❜

❛ i try to be careful with the thing inside my chest. ❜

❛ so you can forget me , i'll leave if you let me. ❜

❛ please don't leave, don't leave me in the shape you left me. ❜

❛ just leave me in the place you found me safe and soundly. ❜

HONEY

❛ she's on the tip of my tongue, she's on the top of my thighs. ❜

❛ open your mouth, i got a surprise. ❜

❛ all i can taste is the blood in my mouth and the bitterness in goodbye. ❜

❛ drippin' like honеy, down the back of my throat and on the front of my mind. ❜

❛ she stings like she means it, she's mean and she's mine. ❜

❛ i love every second, it's fuckin' fantastic ❜

❛ she's hell in a basket just makin' a racket. ❜

❛ good things aren't easy to get, i know that i won't regret you. ❜

❛ between my fingers, she leaves then she lingers. ❜

WHISPERS

❛ you sabotage the things you love the most. ❜

❛ this is the voice in your head that says, "you do not want this". ❜

❛ this is the ache that says, "you do not want him". ❜

❛ bet I could fuck him. ❜

❛ why do you need love so badly? ❜

❛ i've got a monster inside me. ❜

❛ isn't it lonely? ❜

❛ think that you know me? you think that you could if you hold me? ❜

❛ think you could try to console me, but i do not know me. ❜

I AM NOT A WOMAN, I’M A GOD

❛ i am not a woman, i'm a god. ❜

❛ i am not a martyr, i'm a problem. ❜

❛ i am not a legend, i'm a fraud. ❜

❛ keep your heart, 'cause i already got one. ❜

❛ every day i've got a smile where my frown goes. ❜

❛ maybe i could be a different human in a new place. ❜

❛ i just wanna feel something, tell me where to go. ❜

❛ i stay right herе 'cause i'm better all alonе. ❜

❛ i never listen but i see you with my eyes closed. ❜

❛ it really does hurt when you love someone. ❜

THE LIGHTHOUSE

❛ from a tender age i was closed with rage. ❜

❛ i went swimming with the devil at the bottom of a lake. ❜

❛ he was tall and mean with venom eyes so green. ❜

❛ i'll allure you like a landslide and I'll show you lovely things. ❜

❛ he kissed me on the mouth and dug his fingers in my thighs. ❜

❛ a sailor ain't a savior 'cause they only tell you lies. ❜

❛ he's laying in the water, begging god to let him down. ❜

❛ i showed him all my teeth and then i laughed out loud. ❜

❛ i never wanted saving, i just wanted to be found. ❜

❛ that should teach a man to mess with me. ❜

❛ i'm glad i met the devil 'cause he showed me i was weak, and a little piece of him is a little piece of me. ❜

YA’ABURNEE 

❛ i can't decide if i love you more at morning or i love you more at night. ❜

❛ the moon don't pick sides and the sun won't resign until you're by my side. ❜

❛ your beauty is a blessing. ❜

❛ i never got to tell you how i lovеd the way my eyes makе yours look green. ❜

❛ i think we could live forever in each others faces. ❜

❛ if we don't live forever maybe one day we'll trade places. ❜

❛ darling, you will bury me before i bury you. ❜

❛ i'll never know if there's danger in confession. ❜

❛ it's memory that presses like a blade against my throat. ❜

❛ or to die without revealing that you got inside my head. ❜

❛ love is just a currency so take my pockets, and take me home. ❜

HOT & HEAVY

❛ heavy memories weighing on my brain. ❜

❛ you used to be so sweet, now you're a firecracker on a crowded street. ❜

❛ couldn't look away even if i wanted. ❜

❛ lead me to the floor even though i'm not a dancer. ❜

❛ you let me in your world until you had enough. ❜

❛ you knew that i wanted you to bend the rules. ❜

❛ how did i believe i had a hold on you? ❜

❛ you were always stronger than people suspected. ❜

❛ couldn't trust myself to proceed with caution. ❜

❛ the most that i could give to you is nothing at all. ❜

❛ a hidden gem, my own goldmine, you had the wide and wild eyes. ❜

❛ you are a fire that can't be tamed, you're better than ever. ❜

❛ it's bittersweet to see you again. ❜

CHRISTINE

❛ I try to imagine what you're dreaming, you're muttering nonsense between steady breathing. ❜

❛ other nights, you admit he's not what you had in mind. ❜

❛ i see you look at him and wonder if he'll make you a mother. ❜

❛ but if you get married, i'd object. ❜

❛ i'd rather lose my dignity than lose you to somebody who won't make you happy. ❜

FIRST TIME

❛ i may let you see me on my knees but you'll never see me on all fours. ❜

❛ catch my breath to breathe your name. ❜

❛ i am just the fool you took me for. ❜

❛ you gave me your hands 'cause you didn't know what to do with them. ❜

❛ where did we go right? i think about it all the time. ❜

❛ i can't go back to who i was before i met you. ❜

❛ i can't undo what i've done and i wouldn't want to. ❜

❛ i'll stay ready for you to take me. ❜

VBS

❛ hands above our heads, reaching for god. ❜

❛ you were waiting for a revelation of your own. ❜

❛ you were gonna win me over from the start. ❜

❛ your poetry was so bad, it took a lot to not laugh. ❜

❛ you said that i showed you the light. ❜

❛ when i tell you you were born and you are here for a reason, you are not convinced the reason is a good one. ❜

CARTWHEEL

❛ firefly juice on your skin, you're glowing like an atom bomb. ❜

❛ we need to talk. sneak out, meet me on your block. ❜

❛ i felt my body crumple to the floor. betrayal like i'd never felt before. ❜

❛ we'd build a house of twigs and vines, grow old together just to pass the time. ❜

❛ i can't believe a word you say. ❜

❛ the future isn't worth its weight in gold, the future is a benevolent black hole. ❜

THUMBS

❛ you don't have to see him. ❜

❛ but for whatever reason you can't tell him no. ❜

❛ i would kill him, if you let me. ❜

❛ your nails are digging into my knee. ❜

❛ i love your eyes. ❜

❛ i imagine my thumbs on the irises, pressing in until they burst. ❜

❛ i don't know how you keep smiling. ❜

❛ i wanna take your face between my hands .❜

❛ you've been in his fist ever since you were a kid but you don't owe him shit even if he said you did. ❜

GOING GOING GONE

❛ we started flirting after class, stealing hats and trading jackets. ❜

❛ wasn't sure if he and i were going out. ❜

❛ the sun can't break the habit of going down. ❜

❛ my dad would kill me if i was late. ❜

PARTNER IN CRIME

❛ could you tell what i was thinking? ❜

❛ my heart's on my sleeve, it's embarrassing. ❜

❛ it's not your fault, it's mine.❜

❛ do you lovе me? do you love me not? ❜

❛ you were my partner in crime, it was a welcome waste of time. ❜

❛ drop me off at the curb by my curfew, around the corner so nobody sees you. ❜

❛ i wanna run my fingers through you — you say nobody understands you like i do. ❜

BRANDO

❛ you told me to skip school to go with you to the movies. ❜

❛ you knew you were uncool but you thought you could fool me.❜

❛ would it have killed you to call me pretty instead? ❜

❛ all I need for you to admit is that you never knew me like you thought you did. ❜

❛ you admit you think we're fated. ❜

PLEASE STAY

❛ please don't make me see these things. ❜

❛ you tell me you love me like it'll be thе last time. ❜

❛ i love you too because it's true. ❜

❛ you mean what you say when you say you wanna die. ❜

❛ i think you mean what you say when you say you want to stay alive. ❜

❛ tell the secret you can't keep. ❜

❛ call me if you need a friend or never talk to me again. ❜

❛ please stay. ❜

TRIPLE DOG DARE

❛ i'm not tired yet. ❜

❛ i wonder if i overstayed my welcome until you asked me if i'd like to take a walk. ❜

❛ your mama read my palm, she wouldn't tell me what it was she saw. ❜

❛ how did they betray me? what did i do? ❜

❛ i never touched you how i wanted to. ❜

❛ you know i'll be seeking if you run and hide. ❜

❛ if you're too afraid, it won't be you i blame. ❜

❛ you said that we are cursed. ❜

❛ i want you to tell me that you miss me — i want you to hold and hurt and kiss me. ❜

❛ i wanna run away and live on your family's boat. ❜

❛ if you don't get out now, you'll only have yourself to blame. ❜

❛ he doesn’t devour them really; it only feels that way. ❜

❛ i am not one of you, and don’t want to be, either. ❜

❛ i wasn't old enough to be wise. so i loved her more. not less. ❜

❛ are you deranged? ❜

❛ don’t you dare lie to me! i will tear the truth out of your throat. ❜

❛ what an unequaled gift for disaster you have. ❜

❛ i was a glaring blot in the perfection. but i didn’t care: i didn’t feel i owed him beauty. ❜

❛ you’re a witch. ❜

❛ you idiot, what have you done now? ❜

❛ if you don’t want a man dead, don’t bludgeon him over the head repeatedly. ❜

❛ what a strange creature you are: don’t all peasant girls dream of princes and ballgowns?  ❜

❛ i could tell his frustration was that of a lover of beauty and perfection. ❜

❛ i should have known, strange things always happened to you. ❜

❛ i don’t know how to save him. ❜

❛ you impossible, wretched, nonsensical contradiction, what on earth have you done now? ❜

❛ living things don’t always stay where you put them. ❜

❛ magic was singing in me, through me. ❜

❛ there’s no kindness in offering false hope. ❜

❛ a few shadows slipped between your teeth. ❜

❛ kings don’t object to sharing once they’re dead. ❜

❛ he was a thing of alembics to me, library and laboratory. ❜

❛ i was still young and foolish enough at the time to believe myself and my magic likely to elicit admiration instead of alarm. ❜

❛ you tempted my selfishness and my pride at once. ❜

❛ will you cast it with me? ❜

❛ you aren’t a person, you are a lord and a wizard, a strange creature on another plane entirely, as far removed as storms and pestilence. ❜

❛ i wanted him to be human. ❜

❛ fortunately, i haven’t been nearly as stupid as you imagined. ❜

❛ i’m not going to give you a sword to fall on, if that’s what you insist on doing. ❜

❛ try not to borrow more folly than you already possess. ❜

❛ are you still incapable of recognizing a trap? ❜

❛ there’s a considerable distance between seeking perfection and irretrievable haste. ❜

❛ I didn’t feel sorry for him, but i understood him. ❜

❛ since you were a child, you’ve imagined yourself a hero out of legend. ❜

❛ she won’t embrace you. she won’t even know you. ❜

❛ i wanted all of it to burn. ❜

❛ put on your protection spell, as thickly as you can. ❜

❛ do you think i’d rather live like this? ❜

❛ it’s worse than dying... it’s worse. ❜

❛ you can’t heal absence. ❜

❛ stop looking like a frightened rabbit, sit up straight and smile. ❜

❛ what do you want? ❜

❛ success excuses all risks, surely. ❜

❛ what would you ask of your king? ❜

❛ i don’t like the way you go about getting the things you want. ❜

❛ they’re all vultures and he’s the lion. ❜

❛ you’re too young to be as strong as you are, that’s the trouble of it; you haven’t let go of people. ❜

❛ what is there besides people that’s worth holding on to? ❜

❛ you’re behaving like a child instead of a prince. ❜

❛ you already saved me. ❜

❛ we must put aside our mourning and our anger. ❜

❛ there’s always a price. ❜

❛ truth doesn’t mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone doesn’t come to listen. ❜

❛ you learn to feel it less, or you learn to love other things. ❜

❛ stop disappearing before i have to put a bell on you. ❜

❛ i want you by me from now on. ❜

❛ you know we’ve already lost. ❜

❛ i wanted to stay angry at him a while longer, but i wanted the connection more. ❜

❛ i want to touch you, i want the crisp bite of your magic in my hands. ❜

❛ have you got any family left? ❜

❛ do you want me to go? ❜

❛ surely it’s not too much to ask a little patience. ❜

❛ let them cut me limb from limb first! ❜ 

❛ i’ll be sure to keep your tender sensibilities in mind next time. ❜ 

❛ come back to me. ❜ 

❛ will you come into the wood with me? ❜ 

❛ she was golden and stern, almost too beautiful to be living, and there was magic in my hands. ❜ 

❛ we are leaf and twig, nothing more. ❜ 

❛ but wanting cruelty felt like another wrong answer in an endless chain. ❜ 

❛ your sorrow and your fear will poison my roots. ❜ 

❛ you come and go like seasons, the winter that gives no thought to the spring. ❜ 

❛ we’re meant to go, we’re not meant to stay forever. ❜ 

❛ she’d remembered how to kill and how to hate, and she’d forgotten how to grow. ❜ 

❛ do you think the death of a witch turns all her works to dust? ❜ 

THE MOON DOESN’T MIND

❛ the moon doesn't mind that i'm left all alone. ❜

❛ she’s gone. ❜

MINE FOREVER

❛ if you ever get lonely, please let me know. ❜

❛ if forever gets lonely, take my hand. ❜

❛ don't laugh, you'll make me cry. ❜

❛ in my mind, you're mine forever. ❜

❛ love is strange, i can't sleep without you. ❜

❛ maybe in the grave i can do it without you. ❜

LOVE ME LIKE YOU USED TO

❛ every road and every highway led me right back to your door. ❜

❛ love me if you choose to, though you say that i'm no good. ❜

❛ when i dream i'll only dream of you. ❜

MEET ME IN THE CITY 

❛ put on the dress you wore the night we met. ❜

❛ you and me are going to paint this town. we’ll go wild and seize the night. ❜

❛ am i not the one you’re dreaming of, my angel? ❜

❛ forget the life you had and don’t look back. ❜

❛ if our love is so wrong tell me why does it feel so right? ❜

❛ meet me in the city, baby. ❜

❛ am i not the one you want to love forever? ❜

LONG LOST

❛ i ain't lonely, are you? ❜

❛ lay me in the tall grown grass in a shallow grave. ❜

❛ i'll be running through the forest, dancing in the fields like this forever. ❜

TWENTY LONG YEARS 

❛ i made a life out of chasing a ghost. ❜

❛ i gotta find a way out of this mess, i’m in trouble and it sure looks bad. ❜

❛ i put up my name in the sacred game and forgot what i was paying for. ❜

DROPS IN THE LAKE 

❛ i get by, but i'm tired of myself. ❜

❛ i go down to the edge of the lake where i wait through the night for the dawn light to break. ❜

❛ how i yearn for the yеars we were young and in lovе. ❜

❛ oh, how the heart burns like fire in the light of the moon, i just hope you'll be coming back soon ❜

❛ you're my long-lost love, can we wind back the wheels to the way that it was? ❜

WHERE DID THE TIME GO

❛ may you laugh and sing your life full. ❜

NOT DEAD YET

❛ all messed up with nowhere to go, i stare at myself in the mirror alone. ❜

❛ it's hard to make friends when you're half in the grave. ❜

❛ you look like hell and you smell like death. ❜

❛ there's a stranger in my eyes again. ❜

❛ if she asks about me, tell her i'm not dead yet. ❜

I LIED

❛ told you i could never love somebody else, but i lied. ❜

❛ i made a claim that i would dance until we're bones with my bride. ❜

❛ i read your letter in the morning by the lake, and i cried. ❜

❛ i made a vow to stand beside you 'til the day that i die. ❜

❛ told you i could never live without your love, but i lied. ❜

AT SEA

❛ i might, stay on my island for a couple of years see here how it feels. ❜

WHAT DO IT MEAN

❛ if i leave in the night i'll only be running with the weight of the world at the tips of my fingers. ❜

❛ i'm gonna get it together and live forever. ❜

❛ the stars in the sky above us keep burnin', but it isn't for you, and it ain't for me neither. ❜

❛ gonna fly through my life till i crash into the ending. ❜