NOTHING'S ABOUT TO HAPPEN TO ME : Sentence Starters
Lyrics from the Mitski album. Change as needed.
IN A LAKE.
"I'd never live in a small town."
"I've made too many mistakes."
"In a big city, you can start over."
"Everywhere you go makes your heart ache when you've done enough walks of shame."
"Some days, you just go the long way to stay off of memory lane."
"I've tried very hard to be good."
"When people think you're bad, people act worse."
WHERE'S MY PHONE?
"Where did I go?"
"I just want my mind to be a clear glass, clear glass with nothing in my head."
"I keep thinking 'surely, somebody will save me' - at every turn, I learn that no one will."
"I'll stay out until my mind is like a clear glass."
"I will float until my mind is like a clear wax."
CATS.
"I won't leave you, 'cause I still love you."
"It's up to you, if you choose to go."
"You say it's hard, but it feels simple to me."
"I've been trying to stop trying to be someone you'd still like."
"They're out following their heart's delight."
IF I LEAVE.
"If I leave, somebody else will love you."
"Nobody else could forgive me quite as often as you."
"None of my friends know."
"Nobody else could see me quite as clearly as you."
"I've only let you know."
"It's been dark the whole way."
"How could I lose you?"
"I couldn't lose you."
"Who else could love me quite as kindly as you?"
DEAD WOMEN.
"Would you like me better if I'd died, so you could tell my story the way it ought to be?"
"Rifle through it all, fill the blanks with what you need."
"If I'd died willing, you'd have taken it nice."
"When you find my love beside me, choke him dead for havin' me."
"While I dream of flying, stab me twenty-seven times."
"She gave her life so we could have her in our dreams."
"She gave her life so we can fuck her as we please."
INSTEAD OF HERE.
"Are you in there, miss?"
"I'm not here, I'm where nobody can reach."
"I'm done after this."
"She said she wished I'd known that I'm still just a kid."
"Lie down in the dirt."
"Is this what it's worth?"
"I'll be opening my box of old friend misery, my secret treat."
"I won't be here, I'll be where nobody can reach."
I'LL CHANGE FOR YOU.
"How could I let our love die?"
"You're the only other keeper of my most precious memories."
"Yeah, I've been drinking, why's that mean I can't call about you and me?"
"I'll do anything for you to love me again."
"If you don't like me now, I will change for you."
"Bars, such magic places - you can be with other people without having anyone at all."
RULES.
"I'll be dressed like your best idea."
"You'll be gentle."
"You will ruin me."
"I'm nobody's anyone anymore."
"I'm only crying because it feels good."
"I will be somebody else."
"Please pretend that you don't see how I'm no longer there behind my eyes."
THAT WHITE CAT.
"It's supposed to be my house, but I guess now it's his house."
"Things will leave you - they get broken, they get lost."
"The only thing you can trust is what you've lived through."
"How 'bout when I die? What do you hold onto?"
CHARON'S OBOL.
"That's when she first saw them, out the kitchen window right at twelve-o-clock."
"She almost was one of the girls who died in that house."
"She took it on to start a new life."
"Maybe with enough time tending to that ground, she can heal the heart of that house."
LIGHTNING.
"We've been waiting to be born again."
"When I die, could I come back as rain?"
"If I'm dark, all the better to reflect the moonlight."
"If I mourn, all the better to behold the sunrise."
"I can hear the song of my death."

















