#starter memes

because i love rabbitology, she's an underappreciated artist, and so stinking much of my lore is built based on vibes from her songs.

Two Head Hare

those eyes, they know too much

this two-headed hare must be a lucky omen

you ask me where my soul will go once this body dies

what makes a warning?

I pray wherever i end, I'll still want to begin with you again

We say nothing to each other

We know everything

Hold my hand tighter

Preybirds

birds of prey spiral above my head

I've watched it happen again and again

I shouldn't play with fate

What if once, I could make you safe?

If you'd just look up I could be your guide

Why can't I catch your eye?

You're all I see. Won't you look at me?

You're blind to all my warning cries

One day I'll come reckoning

Bog Bodies

Please, love, never leave

I have hands for building altars

I was made to be a devotee

Won't someone teach me to love without it swallowing me whole?

If to love is to be changed, I'm only worsening

He only loves me when I rot with him

I'm my father's stubborn daughter

I am no gentle lover

Wolfhouse

You hope she tastes what she smells of

Touch her and I'll hack you raw

Come on, sink your teeth in me

Rip us down in the heat of your fever

You're the reaper

Drink my blood

My spit'll be the chaser

Watch my hands blink the glint of my cleaver

I am a first born daughter

I'll wear your fur

I will bear this lupine curse

Sweet Death of Me

I meant to impress you, not distress you

I guess I'll see you around, my lover

I was once a dancing man

I slipped further towards the cliffs side end

Your song grasped my body

I slipped straight off the edge and into the coughing sea

You don't need to read my palms or my tea leaves

In every life I live, you'll be the sweet death of me

Its like we were written in divine comedy

I don't care if with you I can never be saved

This love may be cursed from the very beginning

A life without you's not a life I'd like living

Millie, Warm the Kettle

What have you done to me, my friend?

Can't you see I slide planchettes with my wake?

I'm tossing, turning in an open grave

Catch me walking with the ghosts again

Must be on that double dose

Can't you stop them?

Like exhaling, it never ends

Can't you see I made a walking stick out of my stake?

What be this omen?

Please be a kind old dearie just for me

Warm the kettle's tea once more

Magnanimity (Bigger Man)

Can you hear her calling?

You say its best to forgive

I writhe in my grave and you never lost sleep

I'll cry for 40 nights and days

Mercy is not a word that I know

How dare you beg for maturity?

I'll never exhale it all, it never ends

Who's the bigger man now?

Butcheress

This church was once a barn, they say

Your past never scrubs away

God birthed me cursed

I asked the Father how I could be saved

My heart is tethered and I think we're soulmates

You better repent every day

Cut my heart out for a taste of claimed saintliness

I became a butcheress

Could this church ever be a barn again?

Could a girl unlearn false cries to sin?

Could a butcher shed her lambs bloodied skin?

... new girl, old ghosts

Replaced me with a new girl, I see

He never means it when he says he's sorry

I pray she won't forgive easily, like me

He taunts my spirit every day

I wanna raise the dead just to play with his head

I wanna set her free, say she's not alone

Foxcry

You just love to see a woman suffer

You hate it when I sing but you love it when I scream

Food is scarce, take what you keep

Don't heed a hand thats willing to feed

I can feel those eyes sinking into me

Who Shot the Bird Boy?

Where did you find this meat?

The silence in the woods felt wrong

Which of us is next?

Where will the barrel be pointed?

Candleburn

They'll put an apple in your hand, but don't you dare bite it

A match and a wick, but don't you dare light it

Temptation is a sin, don't look any more behind it

That's just how it is, don't you dare fight it

Life's only meant to live, don't fill it with excitement

Sorry, man, it's way too late

Abstain, restrain, forgive... or something like that

Stranger

There is a stranger wearing your face around

Let me find you

Are you hiding somewhere inside?

Where did it hide your soul?

I cannot tame it with salt, holy water, or sage

If you love me, you'll let me inside

Have I found you?

Wildfire (Gone, Gone, Gone)

You say you didn't mean for this to happen

Your nose crinkles up when you lie

Once set in motion, it cannot be stopped

A lifetime we built, curled to ash in an instant

You cut my wound deep, how dare you try to kiss it

We knew this love would swallow us whole

Joanie

Do you not tremble at the thought the we could both go up in smoke?

Is it the first breath or the final gasp that hurts the most?

Intro (Living Ghost)

Why am I bleeding?

Does this wound hurt?

Why did you leave me?

You think that you've killed me, but watch my chest rise

Lyric starters from New Order’s album ‘Substance 1987.’ Adjust pronouns / phrasing / context as desired!

▶ Ceremony

"This is why events unnerve me."

"Notice for whom the wheels are turning."

"Oh, I’ll break them down."

"No mercy shown."

"Heaven knows it’s got to be this time."

▶ Everything's Gone Green

"Help me, somebody help me."

"I’ll hurt you when I can."

"It seems like I’ve been here before."

"Won’t you show me?"

"Please, show me the way."

▶ Temptation

"It hurts me to treat you this way."

"Tonight, I think I’ll walk alone."

"I’ll find my soul as I go home."

"I’ve never seen anyone quite like you before."

"No, I’ve never met anyone quite like you before."

"It’s the last time."

▶ Blue Monday

"How does it feel to treat me like you do?"

"I thought I was mistaken."

"I find it so hard to say what I need to say."

"But I’m quite sure that you’ll tell me how I should feel today."

"I can and shall obey."

"I thought I told you to leave me."

"Tell me, how does it feel when your heart grows cold?"

▶ Confusion

"I’ll tell you something I think you should know."

"Ask me no questions, I’ll tell you no lies."

"You’ve caused me some problems."

"You’ve taken my place."

"Why can't you see what you mean to me?"

▶ Thieves like Us

"It's always the same."

"You were always so vain."

"It's called love."

"It belongs to us."

"When it dies, it dies for good."

"It belongs to everyone but us."

"It's the only thing that's worth living for."

▶ The Perfect Kiss

"I knew it from the start."

"Let's go out and have some fun."

"I know you know."

"Tonight, I should have stayed at home."

"He has always been so strange."

"I'd often thought he was deranged."

▶ Sub-Culture

"I like walking in the park when it gets late at night."

"What do I get out of this?"

"I always try."

"You won't even notice that you are alone."

"In the end, you will submit."

"It's got to hurt you a little bit."

▶ Shellshock

"It's never enough."

"It's never enough until your heart stops beating."

"Don't give up the game until your heart stops beating."

"You left me all alone."

"That's the way I can win."

"You've lost the hold you've had on me."

▶ State of the Nation

"I don't kiss when you're around."

"Even now, I'm all alone."

"I think about where we have been."

"I know it all could be worthwhile."

"There's no sense in telling me."

"The wisdom of the fool won't set you free."

▶ Bizarre Love Triangle

"That's the way that it goes."

"Every day my confusion grows."

"I'm waiting for that final moment you say the words that I can't say."

"Why can't we be ourselves like we were yesterday?"

"I'm not sure what this could mean."

"I don't think you're what you seem."

▶ True Faith

"I feel so extraordinary."

"Something's got a hold on me."

"I don't care if I'm here tomorrow."

"They're afraid of what they see."

"That's the price that we all pay."

"I can't tell you where we're going."

~ “I fell, and landed on my…on, on the ice.”

~”Wow! Will you look at that!”

~”Well, I think I might. I'll just pick myself up and... oh! What's this? Heavens! I'M BOLTED TO THE WALL!”

~”Ah-ah-ah, ________, you can't open it!”

~”You said you'd never leave.”

~”I wasn't trying to leave. I just wanted to make you happy.”

~”You broke your word. And for that, you'll rot in this dungeon forever.”

~”I should've known you'd never be anything - but a beast.”

~”It's a... a Yule log.”

~”Wishes are stupid.”

~”IS THIS WHAT YOU WISHED FOR?”

~” There will BE no Christmas.”

~”You cannot possibly understand. You have no idea what it's like to lose everything, to be trapped in your own castle, to be a - a - uh...”

~”Don't whine, _______.”

~”Forbid Christmas? No one can forbid Christmas.”

~”That's not a tree! That's just a weed wishin' it was a tree!”

~”I'll tell you what I see: a big old windbag!”

~”My solo - it's blank!”

~”Would you do us the honor, old friend?”

~”I'd be delighted!”

~”_______... what's - Christmas?”

~”Oh, __________, you must know about Christmas. Stockings in front of the fire. Tree? Tinsle? Presents?”

~”Presents! Will I get one?”

~”Christmas takes planning and organization.”

~”No, no. I won't do it. It won't change anything.”

~”You're not singing!”

~”I told you nothing would change.”

~”When I felt lost and lonely, not a dream in my head, your words lifted my spirits high.”

~”So there always will be a time when the world is filled with peace and love.”

~”This is my masterpiece.”

~”Oh, but happiness is so... depressing.”

Alter wording as needed for maximum fit!

“Hey, we thought of everything—except for an alibi and an escape route, but we’ll figure it out as we go.”

“For all we know, you three are in the bad place, and I’m up in the good place, where I belong, being tested.”

“We couldn’t hear you, but I am an expert in non-verbal communication, and it is clear. You are in conflict.”

“Diamonds are literally carbon molecules lined up in the most boring way. They’re worthless space garbage.”

“The point is, don’t be sad. Honestly, I’ll get kind of annoyed if you do get sad, because it’s been a very long day.”

“It literally took dying and being around a bunch of good people to realize that I was kind of a nightmare.”

“I took something great, and I ruined it a little so I could enjoy it more. I frozen-yogurted the neighborhood.”

“I have spent every second in this place worried I was going to get caught, but if we go down right now, that’s on you!”

“I know it sounds crazy, but if it weren’t crazy, they wouldn’t call it a leap of faith! They would call it a...sit of...doubting.”

“You know, every single detail of your life is deeply disturbing, and yet I envy you. I was never allowed to goof off.”

“Look at what you’re asking me to do—make a deal with an actual devil so that I can then do homework in secret.”

“Okay, I’ve hacked into the mainframe! ...Kidding. I can’t ‘hack into the mainframe’; technically I *am* the mainframe.”

“If you steal a loaf of bread, it’s a negative seventeen points. Twenty if it’s a baguette, because that makes you more French.”

“I’m gonna take your relationship and put it under a microscope and dig and poke and prod until you are back to soulmate harmony.”

“We don’t put people in jail. It’s just a room where you have been put in the interest of public safety as a form a punishment and from which there is no exit.”

“You guys are so fun, just relentlessly fun. I keep thinking, ‘When are they going to stop being fun?’ And the answer is never. You are never going to stop.”

“Dude, if you do the thing where you have to reexplain the entire world before asking a question, we are both going to grow old and die again. Out with it!”

“Do you eat? I can never remember. What do you eat? Babies? Want me to get you a big fat baby? What flavor baby? Ohhh, what about a cool ranch baby?”

“Just shove your feelings way down deep, plaster on a fake smile, and pretend you’re having fun, okay? Just like I used to do when someone started talking about their kids.”

“Alright, let me just get into the mindset of a human. … Huhuh, ohhh, I’m a human, and my breathing tube is next to my eating tube! Oh, and look, my arms end in stupid little sticks!”

“I wish we were in Florida, kissing outside, near a swamp with some old tires in it, watching a flamingo trying to mate with somebody’s old gun. I want us to have the life we deserve.”

Alter wording as needed for maximum fit!

“So my job is to get drunk and insult people. I think I can hack that.”

“S/he didn’t even have a job! In a sad way, not in the good rich way.”

“It was that easy? You didn’t have to choke out an angel or anything?”

“S/he’s like a perfect ball of light, and you’re like a wet ball of mulch.”

“Being ethical… It’s hard, and I kind of hate it. When does it get easier?”

“How long do you have to know someone before you do the right thing?”

“You and I are really very similar. … What does that say about me? Ugh.”

“I was a medium person. I should get to spend eternity in a medium place.”

“‘Ya basic!’ It’s a human insult. It’s devastating. You’re devastated right now.”

“I got you something that will make you happy. I call them ‘opposite-tortures’.”

“This place is a perfectly-made Swiss watch, and you are a wrench in the gears.”

“A millennial is someone who’s only been torturing people for a thousand years.”

“I would say I outdid myself, but I’m always this good. So I simply...did myself.”

“It looks like pretending to enjoy his/her singing is going to be half our job here.”

“Uh oh, I guess I’m still pretty selfish. Help! I need another ethics lesson, quick!”

“This is your soulmate. S/he’s universe-approved. Tell him/her you love him/her.”

“I can’t believe s/he betrayed us again. Why is it always the ones you most expect?”

“Go ahead and cry all you want, but you’re gonna have to pay for that toilet plunger.”

“When I thought of the afterlife, I totally pictured being an unpaid, non-flying janitor.”

“Oh no! Now the thing I said right after we kissed will always be ‘Hot diggity dawg!’”

“Oh wow, look, it’s Weekend at Bernie’s, because you’re a dead guy/girl in sunglasses!”

“Look at us, a couple of old pals, trying to make our way in this crazy world that I built.”

“I got ten bucks to my name. I spent eight of it on this burrito and the other two on guac.”

“Of course, what do I know? I’m the just all-knowing judge of all matters in the afterlife.”

“You think I feel dumb and small? I am an eternal being who can see in nine dimensions.”

“I’m sorry, I’ve never kissed anyone before. Is one tongue okay? I can add more tongues.”

“Every jazz song is like forty minutes long! It’s like, we get it; you can blow on a trumpet!”

“I just absorbed the entirety of your existences, and I just want to say, you guys are so cute!”

“Please, you go ahead. I respect you. You’re not just an obstacle for me getting what I want.”

“S/he’s not even a person; s/he’s just a bunch of evil shoved up the butt of an evil mannequin.”

“No, I won’t be taking any classes. I’m an immortal being with abilities you can only dream of.”

“I’ve been on my own for a while now anyway, and after you sign these papers, it’ll be official.”

“You pack a lot of heart and grit into that diminutive frame—like a scrappy little auto mechanic.”

“Great. Yet again, it’s everyone against [self name], because everyone except [self name] is an idiot.”

“It’s just, you’re talking about me like I’m not here, or something, and that just makes me feel weird.”

Alter wording as needed for maximum fit!

“What’s up, dong bait?”

“Haha… His brain is wrong.”

“That’s what you think hell is?!”

“He is a Jenga tower of sadness.”

“Was it a nice grab or a bad grab?”

“Welcome to the bottom of the barrel.”

“S/he makes the bass drop. In my heart.”

“I wasn’t a failure; I was pre-successful.”

“This is hell. Of course there’s a gift shop.”

“I will speak to you later. Go to your void.”

“We hereby name you an honorary human.”

“I’ve been around a long time—like, all of it.”

“I’m kind of glad we didn’t get married today.”

“Has anyone ever told you what a drag you are?”

“S/he’s an idiot. From Florida. S/he’s a Floridiot!”

“I mean, I wasn’t freakin’ Ghandi, but I was okay!”

“Good-bob! I hope we same-place again very now.”

“Oh—that’s a joint. Do you have a pen? Or a lighter?”

“We’re all just corpses who haven’t yet begun to decay.”

“Yep, shouldn’t have said that; regretted it immediately.”

“I would love to not watch TV, but you canceled school.”

“I can’t high-five that! ...No matter how badly I want to.”

“Ugh, here we go with this whole ‘no genitals’ thing again.”

“The problem...is me. And now, I have to leave you, forever.”

“Well, that’s called tyranny, and it’s generally frowned upon.”

“I would love to walk it off, but my feet have needles in them.”

“Not like a last meal. Just, uh, the final food you may ever eat.”

“Oh. S/he’s from Florida? Yeah. S/he belongs in the bad place.”

“Babe, we are going to be trying to make love all. Night. Long.”

“At least s/he died doing what s/he loved—a bunch of Whip-Its.”

“There’s no easy way to say this. I never should have made you.”

“As you approach the kill switch, I will begin to beg for my life.”

“This is the end, beautiful friend.”

“One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.”

“You know you make me wanna shout?”

“Won’t you tell me your name?”

“The stars look very different today.”

“You’ll stay in my heart and I will love you.”

“For me there is no one but you.”

“You’ve got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend.”

“How does it feel to be on your own?"

"Don't criticise what you can't understand."

"I see trouble on the way."

"Don't you need somebody to love?"

"Wouldn't you want somebody to love?"

"I got nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide."

"It's not love I'm running from, it's the heartbreak I know will come."

"Never been a sinner, I never sinned."

"There's danger on the edge of town."

"I have my freedom, but I don't have much time."

"They have no use for your song."

"For once in my life, I have someone who needs me."

"Someone warm like you would make my dreams come true."

"As long as I know I have love I can make it."

"Just let me grieve in private, 'cause each time I see you I break down and cry."

"I just can't get over losing you."

"I don't wanna lose this good thing that I got."

"Being good isn't always easy, no matter how hard I try."

"I love you and nobody else."

"It's easier than just waiting around to die."

"Sometimes I don't know where this dirty road is taking me."

"It's been too hard living, but I'm afraid to die."

"Please don't confront me with my failiures."

"This loneliness won't leave me alone."

"I'm so tired, I don't know what to do."

"All your life, you were only waiting for this moment to be free."

"The deeper you go, the higher you fly."

"Well you may be a lover, but you ain't no dancer."

"I'm going where the water tastes like wine."

"I don't want no cream and sugar 'cause I got you."

"You won't really fall in love, for you can't take the chance."

"Come a little bit closer, you're my kind of man."

"Some people get their kicks stomping on a dream."

"You're all I long for, all I worship and adore."

"Something in my heart told me I must have you."

"I got a friend in Jesus."

"Lately, things just don't seem the same."

"Where you going with that gun in your hand?"

"Don't you know that happiness is a warm gun?"

"I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time."

"How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?"

"I ain't got no home."

"Why am I alive anyway?"

"I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when."

"Gimme shelter or I'm gonna fade away."

“Darling, your head’s not right.”

“I ain’t wasting no more time.”

“I just want to be your slave.”

“I just want to misbehave.”

“I should’ve worked much harder.”

“I should have just not bothered.”

“Do it just to please me.”

“Tomorrow will be different.”

“It’s in my blood, I just can’t help it.”

“I can’t think, ‘cause I’m just way too tired.”

“Is this it?”

“Dear, can’t you see? It’s them it’s not me.”

“We’re not enemies, we just disagree.”

“Can’t you see I’m trying?”

“Please don’t make this harder.”

“You’re not trying hard enough.”

“You sound so angry. Just calm down, you found me.”

“I’m not your friend, I never was.”

“Yeah, I know you warned me, but this is too important.”

“Alright, let’s go, you’ve convinced me.”

“I won’t try to control you.”

“Oh really? Your folks are away now?”

“You talk way too much.”

“Give me some time, I just need a little time.” “I never needed anybody, it won’t change now.”

“Meet me in the bathroom.”

“You trained me not to love.”

"I'm not driving fast enough."

“I don’t wanna waste your time.”

“We worked hard, darling.”

“We don’t have no control, we’re under control.”

“I don’t wanna do it your way.”

“I don’t wanna change your mind.”

“I’m sick of you and that’s the way it is.”

“I can do a lot of things, but I can’t do that.”

“Won’t you take a walk outside?”

“The end has no end.”

“Leave me alone, I’m in control.”

“He’s gonna let you down.”

“I can’t go back, I’m not like that.”

"I'm not driving fast enough."

"Things they have changed in such a permanent way."

"Life seems unreal."

"Can we go back to your place?"

"You drink too much, makes me drink just the same."