[drkseeds]

𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐆𝐎 𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 /  𝐌𝐀𝐋 𝐁𝐋𝐔𝐌

”How I wish I could stay longer, how I wish I’d never gone.” ”Sometimes I think I left you just to see if I’d be missed.” ”Is this what’s making you so sad?” “I didn’t mean to say it at the time.” “I hate that type.” “You were out with a woman at exhibits about people like me.” “I don’t get it.” “I brought this on myself.” “So I gathered up my things and I dusted off my bike.” “You show up to my shows and think I’m singing about you, and I’m not.” “Don’t even start with me.” “Sometimes I also feel that way.” “You’d think that I’d know better.” “I’m really getting so adept at preventing my own happiness.” “I get productive when I get upset.” “I’ve been looking for a little bit of heartache.” “You couldn’t even pick up the fucking phone and call me.” “Last year was so stupid.” “Don’t know how I ever made it out.” “You kissed me at midnight because you thought that I looked lonely.” “You’ve got to nip those tragic feelings in the bud.” “I think I’m gonna be fine.” “You’re gonna be fine.” “And if anyone tries to tell you any differently, you tell them to come and talk to me.” “I don’t even know you, but I’d take you home with me.” “I got drunk last night, and the night before and tonight I’m gonna get drunk somemore.” “I’ve got to drink until I’m dead or I’m numb.” “Kiss me on the mouth.” “Believe me, I get sad sometimes.” “You can count on me.” “Without you we would not know what to do.” “You have the nicest heart somebody can.” “Isn’t that what love’s about?” “Maybe I’m the one that’s weary, maybe I’m the one that’s weak.”

[drkseeds]

𝐈𝐈𝐈, 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐔𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐄𝐑𝐒

“It’s not the words you say but how you say it” “They found your wallet in the cemetery”  “Your mother never was one” “I don’t blame you for how you’re living” “Go to bed, it’s way too late” “If you leave, don’t leave me all alone”  “I’ll be scared, I’ll be naked, I’ll be cold” “Will you just lay down and dig your grave? Or will you rail against your dying day?”  “I can smell it on your breath” “I found you on the floor” “Did you finally see that enough is enough?” “There’s easier ways to die” “Have you had enough?” “It wasn’t easy to be happy for you” “Made your bed, now you sleep on your own” “I know you’re tired” “You’re no friend of mine” “Fate has dealt me a lonely blow”  “Drank the whole bottle, forgot my name” “All I ever wanted was a mother for the first time” “All this time I waited like a fool”  “Fuck all your pride” “The only thing I know is that we’re into deep” “You need a villain, give me a name”

[drkseeds]

𝐓𝐀𝐘𝐋𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐖𝐈𝐅𝐓 "𝐑𝐄𝐃"

these are taken from taylor swift’s 2012 album red. feel free to change pronouns where needed ! 

 “ I’ll never be the same . “  “  this is the worthwhile fight . “  “  you’re my achilles heel . “  “  this is the golden age of something good and right and real . “  “  moving on from him is impossible and I still see it all in my head .”  “  losing him was blue like I’ve never known .”  “  fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword puzzle with no right answers . “  “But something about it felt like home somehow.” “And I can picture it after all these days.” “I know it’s long gone and the magic’s not here no more.” “I’m not fine at all.” “Maybe we got lost in translation, maybe I asked for too much. Maybe this thing was a masterpiece until you tore it all up.”  “I was there, I remember it all too well.” “Time won’t fly, it’s like I’m paralysed by it.”  “I’d like to be my old self again, but I’m still trying to find it.” “Back before you lost the one real thing you’ve ever owned.” “stay stay stay.” “I just like hanging out with you all the time.” “It’s been occurring to me I’d like to hang out with you for my whole life.” “I’m not sure how I got here.” “This is the last time I’m asking you this, put my name at the top of your list.”  “This is the last time I’m asking you why, you break my heart in the blink of an eye.”  “I was there to watch you leave.” “I’m aching.” “This is the last time I let you in my door.” “I guess we fell apart in the usual way, and the story has got dust on every page.” “I don’t wanna dance, if I’m not dancing with you.” “I’ve been spending the last eight months thinking all love ever does is break and burn and end.”  “What’s past is past.” “kiss me, try to fix it.” “Could you just try to listen?” “Breakdown. Fighting. Silence. The train runs off its tracks.”

[drkseeds]

𝐒𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐅𝐀𝐈𝐓𝐇

taken from the script’s 2010 album, science and faith . feel free to change pronouns when necessary. 

“ she needs me now but i can’t seem to find the time.”  “ even after all these years , i just now got the feeling that we’re meeting for the first time. “  “ i got a new job now at the unemployment line.”  “ trying to make things work but man these times are hard.”  “ we’re gonna start by drinking old cheap bottles of wine, sit talking up all night , saying things we haven’t for awhile.”  “ i just lost my job but i didn’t lose my pride.” “ don’t give up on me, baby.”  “ am i better off dead?”  “ i’m swearing if i go there now , i could change her mind turn it all around.”  “ i know if i faced her face , that she’ll come to her senses.”  “ oh you’re coming down, your hands are shaking.”  “ as i watched her growing weary , i broke her heart.”  “ you won’t find faith or hope down a telescope, you won’t find heart and soul in the stars. “  “ you can break everything down to chemicals, but you can’t explain a love like ours.”  “ it’s the way we feel, yeah this is real.”  “ everything’s the way that you left it, i still haven’t slept yet.”  “ i’m sleeping on your side of bed.”  “ i wish you could still give me a hard time.”  “ i’ll leave the door on the latch if you ever come back.”  “ it’ll be just like you were never gone.” “ there’ll be a light under the hall and the key under the mat, if you ever come back.”  “ they say i’m wasting my time.”  “ what have you done?”  “ it hurts so bad.”  “ you left a hole when you walked out.”  “ i don’t know how much more love this heart can lose.”  “my hands are cold.” “i’m damaged goods.” “ now who would ever want to be with me?”  “ yeah this is living but without the will.”  “ i’m standing under a white flag.” “ this is worth the pain.” 

[drkseeds]

𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐃𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐔𝐌

taken from tania de rozario’s 2013 collection of poetry and short prose . please consider buying the book and supporting the poet .  it can be found here . 

“ surely you are not so naive.”  “  this is what you are.”  “  they might just change the world.” “ you are responsible for your actions.” “ she wants to shrink me down to a manageable size.”  “ i will not be small , will not be pretty.”  “ i refuse to partake in these sorrows that are not mine.”  “ i wanted to give her something i could not take back.”  “ always i give, always, i am emptied. always, i am left behind.”  “ i saw it happen. in fact i anticipated it.”  “ where thou diest will i die, and there will i be buried.” “ is this why it is hard to love me?”  “ is this us , objects that were once home, good only as firewood for what used to be love?”  “ we’re a car crash, high- impact, drunk-driven to pieces of poetry and desire.”  “ i like how you look over coffee and toast, reading the papers and laughing at headlines”  “ power is a curious thing.”  “ what don’t you remember?”  “ here you are here you are here you are .”  “ i like you very much . i hope you know that. i still do like you very much . “  “ put your hands on me , Love. i too am scarred.”  “ it hurt me too, to watch .”  “ i will not watch my life go on without you. “  “ perhaps i should leave something behind.”  “ Don’t forget me, once winter comes and goes.” “ we will lay together again, laughing, warm, under the sun.”  “ you cry because you know the point at which you could have turned back but didn’t. “  “ you remember the dialogue you had with yourself.”  “ i keep everything.”  “ i need you, i’ve said it.”  “ i don’t have that kind of strength.” 

[drkseeds]

𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐄

  THE MUSICAL !  is such a bop .  here are a few starters from the broadway musical.

“   i’ve got some dreams to make true.”  “   here’s where our lives begin.”  “   that’s why you and i should break up.”  “   i thought that you’d understand.”  “   what you want is right in front of you.”  “   what makes you think you can do this?”  “   with love on my side i can’t lose.”  “   it’s cold and dark.”  “  tell me what’s out there that you can’t get right here.” “  love never accepts a defeat, no challenge it can’t meet, no place it cannot go.”  “  even a person who’s smart, can listen to their heart.” “  how many yachts can one man own?”  “  why bother with false modesty?”  “  wipe your tears, it’s no big thing.”  “  i can help you, i’ve been there before.”  “  with the chance i’ve been given, i’m going to be driven as hell.”  “  i’m so close i can taste it.” “  all of this time i planned, i’d be patient and you would love me again.”  “  i have turned my whole world upside down, trying not to let you go.”  “  watching you walk away is like a fatal blow.”  “  am i even awake? pinch me now to make sure.”  “  when i say jump say how high.”  “  i don’t speak mtv.”  “  i know you’re scared.”  “  you think you can’t be you can.”  “  guys who wear that get beat up on my street.”  “  it’s just clothes.”  “  don’t worry this is my treat.”  “  is he not hot ? “  “  it’s called the bend and snap.”  “  i’m tired of living alone with my cat.”  “  i’m free at eight on saturday.”  “  leave with what’s left of my dignity.” “  chalk it all up to experience.”  “  thanks for your help and all you’ve done.”  “  sorry i’m letting down everyone.”  “  what brought on this?”  “  please will you open the door.”  “  dream within reach, don’t stray beyond.”  “  we both know you’re worth so much more.”  “  can i just say, how much i want you to stay?”  “  some girls fight hard, some face the trial, some girls were just meant to smile.”  “  i used to pray for the day you’d leave.”  “  as a rule, i do not bond.”  “  look how far i have come without anyone holding my hand.”  “  being true to yourself never goes out of style.”  “  i think i’ll find my way.”  “ i found my way to love.”

[drkseeds]

𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 .

taken from this compilation of love letters between famed writers and their lovers, including the likes of virginia woolf ,  vita sackville-west , franz kafka , emily dickinson  and vladimir nabokov 

“ if you really want me, I will come to you, always, anywhere.” “ I love you because you never yielded for anything.” “ I love you because I’ve seen your soul.”  “ Let’s live, you and I, as none have ever lived before.”  “ Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless.” “ I am starving for you, if you must know it.”  “ I can’t exist without you. “  “  I want to go away with you. “ “ I must and will and damn the world and damn the consequences and anyone had better look out for themselves who dares to become an obstacle in my path.” “ Nothing and no one in the world could kill the love I have for you.” “ I would like to tell the whole world I clamour for you.” “  I want you to the point of frenzy.” “ There are entire days when I think only of you.”  “  My love, my joy, come back, I implore you.” “  I desire you as I have never desired anyone in my life.”  “ all my heart and soul cried for you.“ “ Are you happier? Are you in love? Are you writing?” “ I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a great deal.”  “ God, I do love you. “ “ The flowers have come.”  “ I like your energy. I love your legs. I long to see you.“  “ My mind is filled with romantic meetings.“ “ Dear One, and I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still.“  “  we sit in each other’s souls.“ “ why are you sad?”  “ Don’t desert me, don’t be horrified at me. You know what I am.”

[drkseeds]

𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐊𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 . 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐃 ‘ 𝐊𝐈𝐒𝐒 ‘ 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐌𝐘 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄’𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 .