▸ i break down, get up and do it all again.
▸ i could come here and scream as loud as i want.
▸ here, i don't have to be quiet. here, i don't have to be kind.
▸ extraordinary and normal all at the same time.
▸ look at me run myself ragged.
▸ aren't you so glad you came?
▸ the witchcraft, the medicine, the spells and the injections, the harvest and the needle protect me from evil.
▸ the magic and the misery, madness and the mystery, what has it done to me?
▸ i crawled up from under the earth, broken nails and coughing dirt.
▸ i knew i came back from the dead to show you how it's done, to show you what it takes to become one of the greats.
▸ i told the truth but could never see it through.
▸ did i get it right? do i win the prize?
▸ do you regret bringing me back to life?
▸ why did you dig me up for this?
▸ you could have me if you weren't so afraid of me.
▸ it's funny how men don't find power very sexy.
▸ i will let the light in, i will let some love in.
▸ i will be happy, it will be perfect.
▸ show me the way this feeling leads.
▸ desire beyond reason is a ruinous thing.
▸ my feet are bleeding but i cannot stop. i have many, many miles yet to cross.
▸ we've been waiting to meet you, it's only a matter of time.
▸ your threats and your promises, they don't scare me. after all, there's nobody more monstrous than me.
▸ am i so different? have i changed?
▸ i no longer try to be good. it didn't keep me safe like you told me that it would.
▸ come on, tear me wide open 'til i'm losing my mind, 'til i cannot contain it.
▸ come on, i can take it! give me everything you got!
▸ all shall be well.
▸ miracles are often inconvenient and a prayer is a spell.
▸ i am changing, becoming something else.
▸ well, healing is slow, it comes and it goes.
▸ something's gained when something's lost.
▸ what would i even say?
▸ i'm stupid and i'm damaged and you're a disaster.
▸ i know it won't work but make it ache, make it hurt.
▸ you make me think my therapy is a waste of money.
▸ i'm falling for anyone awful who tells me i'm pretty.
▸ i blocked your number but you didn't notice.
▸ oh god, i thought i was too old for this. i should be over it.
▸ sometimes my body seems so alien to me.
▸ the swamp, it took them down.
▸ some things, it seems, are catching up with me.
▸ do you see me now?
▸ did you know how big i would become?
▸ there's nothing you can do. some things, it seems, are catching up with you.
▸ [you] said i would be nothing, but look, i'm really something.
▸ will you see me through the pain?
▸ have you changed? well, so have i.
▸ do i terrify?
▸ i am wound so tightly, i hardly even breathe.
▸ i'm so tired of being careful, so tired of being still. give me something i can crush, something i can kill.
▸ you can't outrun yourself, you'll see.
▸ i'm powerless, i know, don't remind me.
▸ every night i went to see them, no, i did not sleep.
▸ what i thought was a night was a thousand years.
▸ all the love that came my way, i found a way to push away.
▸ i don't wanna be afraid anymore.
▸ i don't wanna run from love like i had before.
▸ you have a bigger ego than you think you do.
▸ let it be us, let it be home.
▸ i know how to fall in love, i do it constantly. i fall in love with everyone i meet for ten minutes at least.
▸ i always thought i was nice, i thought i was kind 'til i tried to do something that was almost real life.
▸ it's so much harder than it looks.
▸ if it required practice and dedication, i just got bored.
▸ we discussed something called compromise. a brand new concept that i never tried.
▸ i used to think i knew what sadness was. i was wrong.
▸ i stay in the house, move furniture about, try and control what i can.
▸ you can have it all.
▸ and love was not what i thought it was.
▸ it was not a love song, it was something else. more like surrendering to something and more like resting than running.
▸ peace is coming.
