roleplay sentence starters taken from bastille’s 2019 album DOOM DAYS. feel free to amend as required.
it’s a quarter past midnight.
the streets are getting restless.
we’re the losers on our back seats singing “love will tear us apart”.
it’s a quarter past midnight, still avoiding tomorrow.
it’s a quarter past midnight but we’re just getting going.
we keep on running through a red light.
this is my favorite part.
help me piece it all together, darling.
help me piece it all together, before it falls apart.
it’s a quarter past midnight and the speakers are blowing.
now we’re crawling up the walls again.
you said we’d leave this place in dust and fall from heaven straight through hell.
we never know what we have.
we never knew what we had.
why are we always chasing after something like we trying to throw our lives away?
our lips are getting looser.
i don’t know what i’m saying.
i never know what i’ve had.
if the world is ending, let’s stay up all night.
do you remember what you said to me?
we lost track of time
you always let me down so tenderly.
so live fast and die young and stay forever numb.
you said that maybe this is where it ends.
take a bow for the bad decisions that we made.
we’ll make the same mistakes ‘til the morning breaks.
how’d you look so good?
we always find ourselves lying right here.
could we make the same mistakes?
it might be getting older, but the night’s still young.
we never, never give up on the lost boy life.
so here we are, escaping from the world outside.
we’re on the way.
oh, what would your mother say if she could see what we’re doing now?
oh, what would your mother say if she could hear what we talk about?
the waves are crashing down on you and me again.
i’ll see you on the other side.
is it an apocalypse or nihilism on your lips?
i couldn’t quite remember the vision of you and of me.
i push the limit to the love you offer.
there’s a riot in my head, demanding we do this forever.
why would we divide when we could come together?
just bodies that collide, lost and found each other.
don’t leave me alone.
glamorize the chaos.
don’t let summer nights destroy everything before us.
you blow my mind.
it makes my heart beat harder.
no one is love and it’s not a drill.
don’t look outside.
the world is ending.
the echoes of that news ring loud.
no sound can ever drown it out.
it breaks my heart into a million pieces.
if it’s gonna break me, won’t you let me go?
leave it ‘til the morning.
i don’t wanna know.
we’re too far gone.
nothing i say will mean anything.
just drink, fuck, dance right through disaster.
just drink, fuck, dance.
i don’t want to talk about it now.
get fear and loathing out your mind.
when i watch the world burn all i think about is you.
there must be something in the Kool-Aid.
god knows what is real and what is fake.
last couple years have been a mad trip.
you must have some portraits in the attic.
just don’t read the comments ever.
we fucked this house up like the planet.
we were running riot.
crazy that some people still deny it.
i’m live-streaming the final days of rome.
let’s pick the truth that we believe in.
tell me all your original sins.
we love the sound that our voice makes.
man, this echo chamber’s getting loud.
we’re gonna stay naive tonight.
so i put my phone down fall into the night with you.
we’ve only got ourselves to blame.
let every night play out the same.
i wouldn’t change a thing.
we own the night.
we don’t need a reason if we want to lose our minds.
the morning doesn’t reach us until we want it to, want it to.
the orange sky says the night’s alive.
this time with you’s elastic.
we stretch these hours as far as we can make them go.
i don’t know who’s where.
i got all my old friends and new friends.
you are my family.
there is nowhere I would rather be.
i’ve never felt more comfortable.
i could never want for more when you’re near.
tuesday’ll be doom day, this got out of hand.
i don’t care if we’re talking 'bout the same things.
i don’t care if we’re stuck in the familiar.
i don’t care if we’re going round in circles.
i am bound to you with a tie that we cannot break.
i’m lost but found with you in a bed that we’ll never make.
it’s a feeling we always chase.
i could write a book about the things that you said to me on the pillow.
just call this what it is.
don’t make promises to me that you’re gonna break.
we only ever wanted one thing from this.
don’t paint wonderful lies on me that wash away.
im another place, what could we have been?
in another time, what could we have been?
lie to me tonight and pretend till the morning light.
imagine that you are mine.
we’ll be good in another life.
feels like something special but it never felt like love.
i can feel your eyes in the back of my head.
i’m chemically drawn closer to you.
will you be my future or just an escape?
you’ll never get to heaven on a night like this.
aren’t we all just looking for a little bit of hope these days?
aren’t we all looking for somebody you can wake up with?
i’ll be your rabbit in the headlights.
regrets can’t change anything.
i feel my pulse quickening when your name lights up the screen.
i was giving up.
i was giving in.
how’d you always know when i’m down?.
i hear your eyes roll right down the phone.
i’m your walking disaster.
i wouldn’t change a thing.
you’re a sweet relief.
you saved me from my brain.
i feel joy when you call me.