LYRIC STARTERS from FATHER JOHN MISTY’S ‘I LOVE YOU HONEYBEAR’.
— change pronouns if necessary!
‘ it may be just us who feel this way. ’
‘ you’re the one i want to watch the ship go down with. ’
‘ the future can’t be real, i barely know how long a moment is. ’
‘ it’s just how we expected. ’
‘ everything is doomed, and nothing will be spared. ’
‘ you’ve got your father’s scorn, and a wayward aunt’s schizophrenia. ’
‘ but everything is fine. don’t give into despair. ’
‘ i’ve never done this — baby, be gentle. ’
‘ people are boring, but you’re something else completely. ’
‘ i wanna take you in the kitchen. ’
‘ dating for twenty years just feels pretty civilian. ’
‘ i haven’t left your bed since. ’
‘ seems like you and i need to have a crazy conversation. ’
‘ i just love the kind of woman who can walk over a man. i mean like a goddamn marching band. ’
‘ oh my god, i swear this never happens. ’
‘ i feel so unconvincing when i fumble with your buttons. ’
‘ she blames her excess on my influence, but gladly hoovers all my drugs. ’
‘ i obliged later on when you begged me to choke you. ’
‘ there’s no need to fear me. ’
‘ i love you as you are when you’re alone. ’
‘ i can hardly believe i’ve found you and i’m terrified by that. ’
‘ — kissing my brother in my dreams or finding god knows in my jeans. ’
‘ pull more women than any two men or train can haul. ’
‘ you think i’m fucking crazy. you’re mistaken. ’
‘ she’s gotta listen to your tired-ass lines. ’
‘ only ever be the girl who just almost died in my house. ’
‘ try hard not to freak out. ’
‘ it’s not cheap, but here i am, giving it away. ’
‘ don’t be my last strange encounter. ’
‘ the moment you came to, i swore i would change. ’
‘ yeah, i’m a decent person. little aimless. ’
‘ i’ve said awful things. such awful things. ’
‘ telling people jokes to shut them up. ’
‘ my brain’s so awfully glad to be here for yet another mindless day. ’
‘ i’ve grown more disappointing to you. ’
‘ no one ever really knows you, and life is brief. ’
‘ what’s that got to do with this black hole in me? ’
‘ we met in a parking lot. ’
‘ but i’m still drunk and hot. ’
‘ i’ve become jealous, rail-thin, prone to paranoia. ’
‘ for love to find us, of all people. ’
