272 Lyric Starters
Bands/artists include Panic! at the Disco, Halsey, Katy Perry, Fall Out Boy, Green Day, Christina Perri, A Great Big World, and The Young Veins
“I only want sympathy in the form of you crawling into bed with me,”
“She says she’s no good with words, but I’m worse,”
“We’re falling apart to halftime,”
“And I don’t wanna forget how your voice sounds,”
“Misery loves me,”
“Drink up, it’s last call, last resort,”
“Why don’t you show me the little bit of spark you’ve been saving for his mattress, love?”
“I’ve lost control, I don’t want it back,”
“I taste you on my lips and I can’t get rid of you,”
“So I say damn your kiss and the awful things you do,”
“Better to burn than to fade away,”
“Better to leave than to be replaced,”
“Let’s kill tonight,”
“Make room, we’re takin’ over here!”
“May your feet serve you well,”
“Fate will play us out with a song of pure romance,”
“If all my life was but a dream,”
“We should feed our jewelry to the sea,”
“Diamonds do appear to be just like broken glass to me,”
“Tripping eyes and flooded lungs,”
“Hey moon, please forget to fall down,”
“Sugarcane in the easy morning,”
“My one and lonely,”
“The ink is running down the page,”
“I missed your skin when you were east,”
“You clicked your heels and wished for me,”
“I know the world’s a broken bone,”
“Melt your headaches, call it home,”
“Things are shaping up to be pretty odd,”
“I never said I missed her when everybody kissed her, so I’m the only one to blame,”
“Things have changed for me, and that’s okay,”
“I’m on my way,”
“I wanna go where everyone goes,”
“I wanna know what everyone knows,”
“I never said I’d leave the city,”
“This is gospel for the fallen ones locked away in a permanent slumber,”
“This is the fear of falling apart,”
“They haven’t seen the best of us yet,”
“If you love me let me go,”
“These words are nice enough to leave scars,”
“Truth be told I never was yours,”
“Led away by imperfect impostors,”
“Don’t try and sleep through the end of the world,”
“I won’t give up without a fight,”
“They say we are what we are, but we don’t have to be,”
“I’m bad behavior but I do it in the best way,”
“I try to picture me without you but I can’t,”
“We could be Immortals, just not for long,”
“Live with me forever now,”
“Oh if you only knew what we’ve been up to, I guarantee you keep it secret,”
“We’re swimming with the sharks until we drown,”
“We’re lost in a dream, now,”
“And we’re all but here for nothing,”
“Surrender all control to the girl that you love,”
“Can we fast forward till you go down on me?”
“I wanna live a life from a new perspective”
“More to the point, I need to show how much I can come and go,”
“There’s no more that needs be said when I’m inching through your bed,”
“So catch me up on getting out of here,”
“So how do you manage?”
“I dodge the blast and apologize for collateral damage,”
“My life started the day I got caught under the covers with second hand lovers,”
“I was drunk and it didn’t mean a thing,”
“Stop thinking about the bullets from my mouth,”
“I love the things you hate about yourself,”
“Just finished a daydream,”
“The time for being sad is over,”
“No one wants you when you have no heart,”
“I don’t want to hear you’ve got a boyfriend,”
“Girls love girls and boys,”
“You’ve gotta save your reputation,”
“They’re close to finding out about your girlfriend,”
“You’re such a pretty thing to be running from anyone,”
“You think you’re ready for it,”
“I’m ready to go,”
“What does it really mean to get nothing from anyone?”
“There’s nothing wrong with just a taste of what you payed for,”
“You’re guaranteed to run this town,”
“Give me a sign, I want to believe,”
“Am I who you think about in bed,”
“I hope to God it was worth it,”
“I’ve got more wit, a better kiss, a hotter touch, a better fuck,”
“Let’s get these teen hearts beating faster (faster),”
“I hope you didn’t expect to be all of the attention,”
“Now I’m of consenting age,”
“I’m exactly where you want me you know,”
“I wouldn’t be caught dead in this place,”
“Build God, then we’ll talk,”
“What a wonderful caricature of intimacy,”
“Sugar, we’re going down swinging,”
“I am missing you to death,”
“It’s just past 8 and I’m feeling young and reckless,”
“We’re only good liars, but we’re the best,”
“Doesn’t it feel like out time is running out?”
“May nothing but death do us part,”
“Put your venom in me,”
“I slept in last night’s clothes and tomorrow’s dreams,”
“Let me tell you one more time,”
“But I love her anyway,”
“Where will you be waking up tomorrow morning?”
“Be careful making wishes in the dark,”
“I’m just dreaming about tearing you apart,”
“All the writers keep writing what they right,”
“I’ve got the scars from tomorrow,’
“I just gotta get you off the cage,”
“I’m a young lover’s rage,”
“If it feels good, tastes good, it must be mine,”
“Heroes always get remembered, but you know legends never die,”
“I’m taking back the crown!”
“And if you don’t know now you know,”
“Done my time and served my sentence,”
“Dress me up and watch me die,”
“Let me be your killer king,”
“It hurts until it stops,”
“It’s love until it’s not,”
“On a killing spree in white,”
“Fifty words for murder and I’m every one of them,”
“My touch is black and poisonous,”
“We’re still so young, desperate for attention,”
“Stop stalling, make a name for yourself,”
“If you talk you better walk you better back your shit up,”
“You’re behind my eyelids when I’m all alone,”
“You’ll dance to anything,”
“I was just a fine guy, living on my own,”
“I really hoped that you would stay,”
“I hardly knew a thing about you,”
“I forgot how to call you,”
“I need to take a vacation,”
“We’re going very far,”
“When I started writing you this song, I was heels over head in love,”
“I tried to love you, but you still loved him,”
“Lie to the truth,”
“I know I broke your heart. Mine is broken too,”
“I think i’ve had enough,”
“I guess I’ve had enough of you,”
“Don’t wait around for love,”
“You’re not what he’s thinking of,”
“You were right, and I was wrong,”
“Life is not a fairytale,”
“They will send him straight to jail,”
“Maybe I will, maybe I won’t,”
“I don’t want to find my home,”
“People get old when they’re alone,”
“Do not be afraid,”
“Is ‘young’ a word for ‘dumb’?”
“Every night, like it’s our job,”
“And it really hurts when it’s wrong,”
“We would have the time of our lives,”
“Darling, how can I forget you now?”
“Say you’ll be mine now,”
“She comes to me when I dream,”
“All I do is lie,”
“Step outside your door and go down to the shore,”
“You’re all that’s left for me,”
“Who knew that love was a dangerous drug?”
“I’m search for something that I can’t reach,”
“I don’t like them innocent,”
“I like the sad eyes, bad guys, mouth full of white lies,”
“Kiss me in the corridor but quick to tell me goodbye,”
“I can’t find you in the body sleeping next to me,”
“What happened to the soul that you used to be?”
“Saying that I love him, but I know I’m gonna leave him,”
“You say that you’re no good for me,”
“I am a one night stand,”
“My demons are begging me to open up my mouth,”
“He could never love somebodies daughter,”
“Goddamn right you should be scared of me,”
“You know the two of us are just young gods,”
“Do you know what’s worth fighting for?”
“Does it take your breath away?”
“Does the pain why out the pride?”
“Did someone break your heart from inside?”
“Give up the fight,”
“Did you try to live on your own,”
“Did you stand too close to the fire,”
“You’ve lost all sense of control,”
“Your thoughts have taken their toll,”
“Your faith walks on broken glass,”
“Nothing’s ever built to last,”
“Something inside this heart has died,”
“I walk a lonely road,”
“Check my vital signs,”
“Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me,”
“The innocent can never last,”
“Seven years have gone so fast,”
“Here comes the rain again,”
“I know I can’t take one more step towards you,”
“Don’t you know I’m not your ghost anymore?”
“You lost the love I loved the most,”
“I learned to live half a life,”
“Who do you think you are?”
“So don’t come back for me,”
“I hear you’re asking all around if I am anywhere to be found,”
“But I have grown too strong to ever fall back in your arms,”
“It took so long just to feel alright,”
“I wish I had missed the first time that we kissed,”
“You don’t get to get me back,”
“How can I love when I’m afraid to fall?”
“I have died everyday waiting for you,”
“All along I believed I would find you,”
“I kissed a girl, and I liked it,”
“You think I’m pretty without any makeup on,”
“Let’s go all the way tonight,”
“We can dance until we die,”
“You and I, we’ll be young forever,”
“Let’s run away and don’t ever look back,”
“We drove to Cali, and got drunk on the beach,”
“I finally found you,”
“Be my teenage dream tonight,”
“There’s a stranger in my bed,”
“There’s a pounding in my head,”
“I smell like a minibar,”
“DJ’s passed out in the yard,”
“Barbie’s on the barbeque,”
“Is this a hickie or a bruise?”
“Pictures of last night ended up online,”
“Yeah we danced on table tops,”
“And we took too many shots,”
“Think we kissed but I forgot,”
“We went streaking in the park,”
“Skinny dipping in the dark,”
“Yeah I think we broke the law,”
“Warrant’s out for my arrest,’
“Think I need a ginger ale,”
“That was such an epic fail,”
“I know a place where the grass is really greener,”
“There must be something in the water,”
“You don’t have to feel like a wasted space,”
“Used to steal your parent’s liquor and climb to the roof,”
“In another life, I would be your girl,”
“I would make you stay,”
“Never one without the other, we made a pact,”
“Sometimes when I miss you, I put those records on,”
“It’s time to face the music, I’m no longer your muse,”
“I should have told you what you meant to me,”
“I used to bite my tongue and hold my breath,”
“I guess I forgot I had a choice,”
“I let you push me past the breaking point,”
“I stood for nothing, so I fell for everything,”
“You held me down, but I got up,”
“Get ready cause I’ve had enough,”
“I went from zero to my own hero,”
“You’re so hypnotizing,”
“Could you be the devil?”
“Could you be an angel?”
“You’re not like the others,”
“They don’t understand you,”
“You’re from a whole nother world,”
“Boy, you’re my lucky star,”
“For you I’ll risk it all,”
“You were gonna come to me,”
“You better choose carefully,”
“Make me your one and only,”
“Don’t make me your enemy,”
“So, you wanna play with magic,”
“Boy, you should know what you’re falling for,”
“Are you ready for a perfect storm?”
“It’s in the palm of your hand, now baby,”
“It’s a yes or a no. No maybe,”
“If you get the chance you better keep her,”
“I don’t really care which side wins,”
“I’m not a shoulder to cry on,”
“I want these words to make things right,”
“I’ll be the one if you want me to,”
“I am feeling so small,”
“You’re the one that I love, and I’m saying goodbye,”
“Anywhere I would have followed you,”
“We’re all too small to talk to God,”
“We’re all too smart to talk to God,”
“Oh how it’s been so long,”
“We’re so sorry we’ve been gone,”
“You don’t have to worry,”
