prompts from motion city soundtrack's album "the same old wasted wonderful world" (2025)
feel free to adjust wording/pronouns/etc as needed!
“who's to blame for all the secrets and lies?”
“it's the strangest game i've ever played in my life.”
“some wear a dark heart.”
“sometimes there's nothing to say.”
“somewhere a dark heart is hoping.”
“one of these days i'll break and it all will come tumbling out.”
“i'm dying to tell you that nothing is quite what it seems.”
“all these feelings i've felt have been working against me since i've been alive.”
“unless somebody spells it out, i never understand.”
“she's taking it out on me.”
“i used to feel bad but now i'm uncertain.”
“i'm never through working out problems in my head instead of being present.”
“i'm not trying to cause a scene.”
“i'm just trying to understand.”
“can i just jump in for a minute?”
“what's that book about?”
“why you gotta be so pretty?”
“why i always seem to mess things up?”
“does anybody study particle physics?”
“why is there such a lack of connection?”
“perhaps i wasn't paying attention.”
“is there a doctor in the house who could figure me out?”
“it's like you need a phd to get me, if you get me.”
“why do you look at me so funny?”
“i think i messed it up.”
“i just wanna be seen for who i am.”
“but what does that mean?”
“you know who the fuck we are.”
“don't waste our time or energy.”
“you tend to curse the sun when you've got scars.”
“remember the night that everyone almost died?”
“we were always so damn high.”
“how did the time escape from us all?”
“why don't you say what you're going through?”
“why don't you say what's inside of you?”
“why does it seem like you wanna hurt?”
“despair was not part of the plan.”
“no software update can change a man.”
“why don't you say what you wanna do?”
“why don't we speak anymore?”
“your days are numbered.”
“i only hurt the ones that tell me to believe.”
“i feel the overwhelming nature of it all.”
“no one can stop me now.”
“your days are numbered, just wait and see.”
“one day i'll disappear, and you'll be just like me.”
“you can't escape yourself.”
“never, ever show emotions.”
“slow down and you'll never get back on track.”
“feel the rhythm beneath your feet.”
“it's a complicated tale.”
“i will always let you down.”
“i'm still fucking anxious.”
“when i was small, i made a lot of mistakes.”
“then i grew up and learned it wasn't quite that way.”
“if i had known back then it wasn't my fault, it might have affected the way that i acted.”
“don't ask me why; it's just the circumstance i'm in.”
“don't ask me why i make the promises i make when i just always let you down.”
“when they force you to fit, you resist.”
“keep a finger on that trigger, mi corazón.”
“i let violence guide my hand.”
“i was born to end your bloodline.”
“nights are for folklore.”
“don't threaten me with the promise of good times.”
“i used to think i was invincible too.”
“turns out that no one really cares for the whole truth.”
“feels like a catacomb of thoughts in my head.”
“i keep crawling around in the dark of it all.”
“is it too late to start again?”
“get yourself together, man.”
“you can't miss what you never had.”
“things like this don't happen anymore.”
“brace yourself against it all.”
“look past what you can't recall.”
“sometimes i feel an unexplainable void.”
“moment to moment, i'll be fine and then destroyed.”
“all things can be true. they don't have to haunt you just because they happened.”
“i tried to find them, but i just don't know.”
“i should have paid attention more.”
“i'm so sick of living the nostalgia down.”
“i just want to separate the past from now.”
“things change. time finds a way to take what we used to have.”
“it's the same old wasted wonderful world.”
“no, we're never gonna stop.”
“it's sobering that we figured it out.”
“we're still dying to know who we are.”
