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mad woman 

“ what did you think i’d say to that? ” “ they strike to kill and you know i will. ” “ what do you sing on your drive home? ” “ do you see my face? ” “ fuck you forever. ” “ every time you call me crazy, i get more crazy. ” “ when you say i seem angry, i get more angry. ” “ there’s nothing like a mad woman. ” “ what a shame she went mad. ” “ no one likes a mad woman. ” “ you made her like that. ” “ you’ll poke that bear till her claws come out. ” “ now i breathe flames each time i talk. ” “ they say ‘move on’ but you know i won’t. ” “ it’s obvious that wanting me dead has really brought you two together. ” “ you took everything from me. ”

epiphany 

“ keep your life. ” “ i think he’s bleeding out. ” “ some things you just can’t speak about. ” “ with you i serve. ” “ with you i fall down. ” “ i think she’s crashing. ” “ you dream of some epiphany. ” “ just one single glimpse of relief. ” “ make some sense of what you’ve seen. ”

betty 

“ i won’t make assumptions. ” “ it’s like i couldn’t breathe. ” “ the worst thing that i ever did was what i did to you. ” “ would you tell me to go fuck myself? ” “ i know i miss you. ” “ i know where it all went wrong. ” “ i dreamt of you all summer long. ” “ it’s finally sinking in. ” “ the only thing i wanna do is make it up to you. ” “ will you have me, will you love me? ” “ will you kiss me on the porch in front of all your stupid friends? ” “ will it patch your broken wings? ” “ standing in you cardigan, kissing in my car again. ”

peace 

“ our coming of age has come and gone. ” “ never had the courage of my convictions. ” “ i could never give you peace. ” “ i’m a fire and i’ll keep your brittle heart warm. ” “ love’s for show. ” “ i would die for you in secret. ” “ your integrity makes me seem small. ” “ give you the silence that that only comes when two people understand each other. ” “ family that i chose, now that i see your brother as my brother. ” “ is it enough? ”

hoax 

“ this has broken me down. ” “ give me a reason. ” “ your faithless love’s the only hoax i believe in. ” “ don’t want no other shade of blue. ” “ no other sadness in the world would do. ” “ i am ash from your fire. ” “ you know, i left a part of me back in new york. ” “ you knew the hero died. ” “ you knew the hero died, so what’s the movie for? ” “ you knew it still hurts underneath my scars. ” “ they pulled me apart. ” “ you knew you won, so what’s the point of keeping score? ” “ what you did was just as dark. ”

the lakes 

mirrorball 

“ i’ll show you every version of yourself tonight. ” “ when i break, it’s in a million pieces. ” “ they said the end is near. ” “ i can change everything about me to fit in. ” “ i’m still a believer. ”

seven 

“ i hit my peak. ” “ i was too scared to jump in. ” “ are there still beautiful things? ” “ cross your heart. ” “ i still got love for you. ” “ love you to the moon and to saturn. ” “ i think your house is haunted. ” “ your dad is always mad: i think you should come live with me. ” “ i think you should come live with me. ”  “ then you won’t have to cry. ” “ then you won’t have to cry or hide in the closet. ” “ our love will be passed on. ” “ our love lasts so long. ”

august 

“ i never needed anything more. ” “ i can see us lost in the memory. ” “ i can see us twisted in bedsheets. ” “ you were never mine. ” “ wanting was enough. ” “ you weren’t mine to lose. ” 

this is me trying 

“ i’ve been having a hard time adjusting. ” “ i didn’t know if you’d care if i came back. ” “ i have a lot of regrets about that. ” “ could’ve followed my fears all the way down. ” “ i’m here in your doorway. ” “ this is me trying. ” “ they told me all of my cages were mental. ” “ so i got wasted like all my potential. ” “ my words shoot to kill when i’m mad. ” “ i was so ahead of the curve. ” “ i ws so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere. ” “ i ended up here. ” “ pouring out my heart to a stranger. ” “ at least i’m trying. ” “ it’s hard to be at a party when i feel like an open wound. ” “ it’s hard to be anywhere these days when all i want is you. ” “ you’re a flashback in a film reel. ” “ maybe i don’t quite know what to say. ”

illicit affairs 

“ make sure nobody sees you leave. ” “ keep your eyes down. ” “ tell yourself you can always stop. ” “ that’s the thing about illicit affairs. ” “ it dies a million little times. ” “ leave no trace behind. ” “ you leave no trace behind like you don’t even exist. ” “ take the words for what they are: a dwindling mercurial high. ”  “ it only worked the first few hundred times. ” “ and you wanna scream don’t call me kid, don’t call me baby. ” “ look at this godforsaken mess that you made me. ” “ you showed me colours you know i can’t see with anyone else. ” “ look at this idiotic fool that you made me. ” “ you taught me a secret language i can’t speak with anyone else. ” “ you know damned well for you i would ruin myself. ” “ you know damned well for you i would ruin myself a million little times. ”

invisible string 

the 1

“ you know the greatest films of all time were never made. ”  “ if you wanted me, you really should’ve showed. ”  “ you’re never gonna grow. ” “ we were something, don’t you think so? ” “ if my wishes came true, it would’ve been you. ” “ in my defense, i have none. ” “ it would’ve been fun if you would’ve been the one. ” “ the greatest loves of all time are over now. ” “ if one thing had been different, would everything be different? ” “ it would’ve been sweet if it could’ve been me. ”

cardigan 

“ when you are young, they assume you know nothing. ” “ i knew you. ” “ baby, kiss it better. ”  “ i felt like i was an old cardigan under someone’s bed. ” “ i felt like i was an old cardigan under someone’s bed, you put me on & said i was your favourite. ” “ a friend to all is a friend to none. ” “ you drew stars around my scars. ” “ tried to change the ending. ” “ i knew you, leaving like a father. ” “ i knew you’d linger. ” “ i knew you’d haunt all of my what-ifs. ” “ i knew everything when i was young. ” “ i knew i’d curse you for the longest time. ” “ i knew you’d come back to me. ”

the last great american dynasty 

“ the wedding was charming. ” “ there’s only so far new money goes. ” “ if she never showed up what could’ve been. ” “ i had a marvelous time ruining everything. ”

exile 

“ if took you five whole minutes to pack us up. ” “ i didn’t like the ending. ” “ you’re not my homeland anymore. ” “ what am i defending now? ” “ now i’m in exile. ” “ those eyes add insult to injury. ” “ i’m not your problem anymore. ” “ i never learned to read your mind. ” “ you never learned to read my mind. ” “ you never gave a warning sign. ” “ i gave so many signs. ” “ you didn’t even see the signs. ”

my tears richochet 

as always, feel free to change pronouns etc to fit!

willow.

“ you cut through like a knife. ”

“ the more you say, the less i know. ”

“ wherever you stray, i follow. ”

“ i’m begging for you to take my hand. ”

“ i could feel you sneaking in. ”

“ you were a mythical thing. ”

“ there was one prize i’d cheat to win. ”

“ i come back stronger than a 90′s trend. ”

“ wait for the signal and i’ll meet you after dark. ”

“ show me the places where the others gave you scars. ”

champagne problems.

“ your heart was glass, i dropped it. ”

“ love slipped beyond your reaches. ”

“ i never as ready, so i watch you go. ”

“ sometimes you just don’t know the answer. ”

“ sometimes you just don’t know the answer till someone’s on their knees. ”

“ what a shame she’s fucked in the head. ”

“ she’ll patch up your tapestry that i shred. ”

“ you won’t remember all my champagne problems. ”

gold rush.

“ i don’t like that anyone would die to feel your touch. ”

“ everybody wants you. ”

“ everybody wonders what it would be like to love you. ”

“ i don’t like that falling feels like flying till the bone crush. ”

“ what must it be like, to grow up beautiful? ”

“ i call you out on your contrarian shit. ”

“ you know it could never be. ”

tis the damn season.

“ if i wanted to know who you were hanging with while i was gone, i would’ve asked. ”

“there’s an ache in you, put there by the ache in me. ”

“ we could call it even, you could call me ‘babe’ for the weekend. ”

“ the road not taken looks real good now. ”

“ it always leads me to you. ”

“ you can run but only so far. ”

“ i escaped it too. ”

“ remember how you watched me leave. ”

“ now i’m missing your smile. ”

“ i won’t ask you to wait if you don’t ask me to stay. ”

“ the only soul who can tell which smile i’m faking… ”

“ the heart i know i’m breaking is my own. ”

“ even though i’m leaving, i’ll be yours for the weekend. ”

tolerate it.

“ i notice everything you do or don’t do. ”

“ if it’s all in my head, tell me now. ”

“ tell me i’ve got it wrong somehow. ”

“ i know my love should be celebrated, but you tolerate it. ”

“ i take your indiscretions all in good fun. ”

“ while you were out building other worlds, where was i? ”

“ where’s that man who’d throw blankets over my barbed wire? ”

“ i made you my temple, my mural, my sky: now i’m begging for footnotes in the story of your life. ”

“  now i’m begging for footnotes in the story of your life. ”

“ you assume i’m fine, but what would you do if i break free and leave us in ruins? ”

as always, feel free to change pronouns etc to fit!

no body, no crime.

“ it smells like infidelity. ”

“ i think he did it, but i just can’t prove it. ”

“ i ain’t letting up until the day i die. ”

“ somebody’s gotta catch him out. ”

“ i’ve cleaned enough houses to know how to cover up a scene. ”

“ they think she did it but they just can’t prove it. ”

“ i wasn’t letting up until the day he died.”

happiness.

“ i showed you all of my hiding spots. ”

“ i can’t face reinvention. ”

“ i haven’t met the new me yet. ”

“ there’ll be happiness after you. ”

“ there was happiness because of you. ”

“ there’ll be happiness after you, but there was happiness because of you. ”

“ both of these things can be true. ”

“ would’ve loved you for a lifetime. ”

“ leave it all behind and there is happiness. ”

“ tell me, when did your winning smile begin to look like a smirk? ”

“ when did all our lessons start to look like weapons pointed at my deepest hurt? ”

“ i hope she’ll be your beautiful fool, who takes my spot next to you. ”

“ no, i didn’t mean that. ”

“ sorry, i can’t see facts through all of my fury. ”

“ you haven’t met the new me yet. ”

“ there’ll be happiness after me. ”

“ there was happiness because of me. ”

“ there’ll be happiness after me, but there was happiness because of me. ”

“ i believe there is happiness. ”

“ in our history, across our great divide, there is a glorious sunrise. ”

“ leave it all behind, and there is happiness. ”

“ i can’t make it go away by making you a villain. ”

“ i guess it’s the price i paid for seven years in heaven. ”

“ i pulled your body into mind every goddamn night, now i get fake niceties. ”

“ no one teaches you what to do when a good man hurts you, and you know you hurt him too. ”

“ after giving you the best i had, tell me what to give after that. ”

“ all you want from me now is th green light of forgiveness. ”

“ i think she’ll give you that. ”

dorothea.

“ do you ever stop and think about me? ”

“ i got nothing but well wishes for ya. ”

“ this place is the same as it ever was. ”

“ it’s never too late to come back to my side. ”

“ if you’re ever tired of being known for who you know, you know, you’ll always know me. ”

“ are you still the same soul? ”

coney island.

“ break my soul in two. ”

“ if i can’t relate to you anymore, then who am i related to? ”

“ and if this is the long haul, how’d we get here so soon? ”

“ did i close my fist around something delicate? did i shatter you? ”

“ did i shatter you? ”

“ sorry for not making you my centerfold? ”

“ what’s a lifetime of achievement? ”

“ what’s a lifetime of achievement, if i pushed you to the edge? ”

“ you were too polite to leave me. ”

“ do you miss the rogue who coaxed you into paradise and left you there? ”

“ will you forgive my soul, when you’re too wise to trust me and too old to care? ”

“ will you forgive my soul? ”

“ did i paint your bluest skies the darkest gray? ”

ivy.

“ your torch brought forth an incandescent glow. ”

“ i just sit here and wait, grieving for the living. ”

“ my pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand. ”

“ i can’t stop you putting roots in my dreamland. ”

“ your ivy grows and now i’m covered in you. ”

“ i wish to know the fatal flaw that makes you long to be magnificently cursed. ”

“ your opal eyes are all i wish to see. ”

“ what would he do if he found us out? ”

“ i’d live and die for moments that we stole. ”

as always, feel free to change pronouns etc to fit!

cowboy like me.

“ dancing is a dangerous game. ”

“ now i know, i’m never gonna love again. ”

“ never wanted love, just a fancy car. ”

“ i could be the way forward, only if they pay for it. ”

“ you’re a bandit like me, eyes full of stars. ”

“ never thought i’d meet you here. ”

“ the skeletons in both our closets plotted hard to fuck this up. ”

“ now you hang from my lips like the gardens of babylon. ”

“ forever is the sweetest con. ”

long story short.

“ i tried to pick my battles till the battle picked me. ”

“ long story short, it was a bad time. ”

“ long story short, it was the wrong guy. ”

“ now, i’m all about you. ”

“ i always felt i must look better in the rear view. ”

“ if someone comes at us, this time i’m ready. ”

“ no more keeping score. ”

“ now i just keep you warm. ”

“ past me: i wanna tell you not to get lost in these petty things. ”

“ your nemeses will defeat themselves before you get the chance to swing. ”

“ long story short, i survived. ”

marjorie.

“ never be so kind, you forget to be clever. ”

“ never be so clever, you forget to be kind. ”

“ if i didn’t know better, i’d think you were talking to me now. ”

“ if i didn’t know better, i’d think you were still around. ”

“ what died didn’t stay dead. ”

“ you’re alive in my head. ”

“ never be so polite, you forget your power. ”

“ never wield such power, you forget to be polite. ”

“ i should’ve asked you questions, i should’ve asked you how to be. ”

“ every scrap of you would be taken from me. ”

closure.

“ it’s been a long time. ”

“ it’s been a long time and seeing the shape of your name still spells out pain. ”

“ it wasn’t right, the way it all went down. ”

“ yes, i got your letter. yes, i’m doing better. ”

“ it cut deep to know ya. ”

“ i know that it’s over. ”

“ i don’t need your ‘closure’. ”

“ don’t treat me like some situation that needs to be handled. ”

“ i’m fine with spite and my tears. ”

“ i can feel you smoothing me over. ”

“ i’m just a wrinkle in your new life. ”

“ staying ‘friends’ would iron it out so nice. ”

“ guilty, reaching out across the sea that you put between you and me. ”

“ but it’s fake and it’s oh so unnecessary. ”

evermore.

“ i’ve been down since july. ”

“ i replay my footsteps on each stepping stone, trying to find the one where i went wrong. ”

i had a feeling so peculiar that this pain would be for evermore. ”

“ guess i’m feeling unmoored. ”

“ can’t remember what i used to fight for. ”

“ i rewind the tape but all it does it pause on the very moment all was lost. ”

“ can we just get a pause? ”

“ when i was shipwrecked, i thought of you. ”

“ i dreamed of you. ”

“ it was real enough to get me through. ”