A GUTS ASK MEME ISN'T A BAD IDEA, RIGHT?
prompts from olivia rodrigo's sophomore album, guts (2023) — part 1/2.
↳ trigger warnings for mentions of alcohol, drugs, grooming, abusive relationships (mental/emotion, not physical), and car wrecks. some lines have been edited or omitted for clarity and comfort.
"I am light as a feather and as stiff as a board."
"I pay attention to things that most people ignore."
"I'm alright with the movies that make jokes 'bout senseless cruelty."
"I am built like a mother and a total machine."
"I feel for your every little issue, I know just what you mean."
"I make light of the darkness; I've got sun in my motherfuckin' pocket."
"I forgive and I forget."
"I know my age and I act like it."
"I got what you can't resist."
"I am light as a feather, I'm as fresh as the air."
"Coca-Cola bottles that I only use to curl my hair."
"I got class and integrity just like a goddamn Kennedy, I swear."
"I'm a perfect all-American bitch, with perfect all-American lips, and perfect all-American hips."
"I know my place, I know my place and this is it."
"I don't get angry when I'm pissed, I'm the eternal optimist."
"I scream inside to deal with it, like, "Ah"."
"I'm grateful all the time. I'm sexy and I'm kind. I'm pretty when I cry."
"Haven't heard from you in a couple of months, but I'm out right now and I'm all fucked up."
"You're callin' my phone, you're all alone, and I'm sensing some undertone."
"I'm right here with all my friends, you're sending me your new address."
"I know we're done, I know we're through, but God, when I look at you, my brain goes, "Ah". Can't hear my thoughts."
"Seeing you tonight... It's a bad idea, right?"
"Yes, I know that he's my ex, but can't two people reconnect?"
"I only see him as a friend... The biggest lie I ever said."
"I only see him as a friend... I just tripped and fell into his bed."
"Now I'm gettin' in the car, wreckin' all my plans."
"I know I should stop, but I can't."
"I told my friends I was asleep, but I never said where or in whose sheets."
"And I pull up to your place on the second floor
"I'm sure I've seen much hotter men, but I really can't remember when."
"Hate to give the satisfaction asking how you're doing now."
"How's the castle built off people you pretend to care about."
"Look at you, cool guy, you got it."
"I see the parties and the diamonds sometimes when I close my eyes."
"Six months of torture you sold as some forbidden paradise."
"I loved you truly; you gotta laugh at the stupidity."
"I've made some real big mistakes, but you make the worst one look fine."
"I should've known it was strange, you only come out at night."
"I used to think I was smart, but you made me look so naïve."
"You sunk your teeth into me."
"Bloodsucker, famefucker, bleeding me dry like a goddamn vampire."
"Every girl I ever talked to told me you were bad, bad news."
"You called them crazy. God I hate the way I called them crazy too."
"You're so convincing. How do you lie without flinching?"
"What a mesmerizing, paralyzing, fucked up little thrill."
"Can't figure out just how you do it and God knows I never will."
"Went for me and not her, 'cause girls your age know better."
"You said it was true love, but wouldn't that be hard? You can't love anyone, 'cause that would mean you had a heart."
"I tried to help you out, now I know that I can't, 'cause how you think's the kind of thing I'll never understand."
"[Name], oh, [Name], skin like puff pastry."
"Aren't you the sweetest thing on this side of Hell?"
"Dear angel [Name], eyes white as daisies, did I ever tell you that I'm not doin' well?"
"Like perfume that you wear, I linger all the time."
"It takes over my life, I see you everywhere, the sweetest torture one could bear."
"Smart, sexy [Name], I'm losin' it lately. I feel your compliments like bullets on skin."
"Dazzling starlet, Bardot reincarnate, well, aren't you the greatest thing to ever exist?"
"Like ribbons in your hair, my stomach's all in knots. You got the one thing that I want."
"I try to rationalize, people are people, but, it's like you're made of angel dust."
"[Name], oh, [Name], it's like you're out to get me. You poison every little thing that I do."
"[Name], oh, [Name], I just loathe you lately."
"I despise my jealous eyes and how hard they fell for you. I despise my rotten mind and how much it worships you."
BALLAD OF A HOMESCHOOLED GIRL.
"Cat got my tongue, and I don't think I get along with anyone."
"I'm on the outside of the greatest inside joke."
"I hate all my clothes. Feels like my skin doesn't fit right over my bones."
"I guess I should go. The party's done, and I'm no fun."
"I broke a glass, I tripped and fell. I told secrets I shouldn't tell
"I stumbled over all my words. I made it weird, I made it worse."
"I laughed at the wrong time, sat with the wrong guy."
"Searchin' "how to start a conversation?" on a website, like, how to flirt?"
"The morning after I panic, oh God, what did I say?"
"Want it, so I got it, did it, so it's done."
"Another thing I ruined, I used to do for fun."
"Another piece of plastic I could just throw away."
"Another conversation with nothing good to say. I thought it, so I said it, took it 'cause I can."
"Another day pretendin' I'm older than I am."
"Another perfect moment that doesn't feel like mine."
"Another thing I forced to be a sign."
"Sometimes I feel like I don't wanna be where I am, gettin' drunk at a club with my fair-weather friends."
"I push away all the people who know me the best, but it's me who's been makin' the bed."
"I'm so tired of bein' the girl that I am."
"Every good thing has turned into somethin' I dread."
"I'm playin' the victim so well in my head."
"But it's me who's been makin' the bed."
"Sometimes I feel like I don't wanna be where I am, countin' all of the beautiful things I regret."
"And every night, I wake up from this one recurrin' dream, where I'm drivin' through the city, and the brakes go out on me."
"I can't stop at the red light, can't swerve off the road, I read somewhere it's 'cause my life feels so out of control."
"I tell someone I love them just as a distraction; They tell me that they love me like I'm some tourist attraction."
"They're changin' my machinery, and I just let it happen."
"I got the things I wanted, it's just not what I imagined."
