sentence starters from the mountain goats - bleed out
"it feels like it takes forever."
"i'm doing this for revenge."
"i'm doing this for you."
"it's gonna get so dark for you."
"i'm gonna leave a mark on you."
"even the tough ones crack."
"maybe you will see me coming. but i don't think you will."
"in a world of heavy footprints, be untraceable."
"wage wars, get rich, die handsome."
"it's losers all the way down. you stay undefeated."
"i'm tired of living on my knees."
"if you don't hear from me, let them all go free."
"don't know where we got this car from."
"i feel like we're almost gone."
"you have to learn to go with the flow."
"haven't checked a mirror in years. don't need to know the bad news."
"absolutely nobody cares."
"nobody's seen them in the wild."
"shall we rise to the occasion, or go to sleep for good in the trenches?"
"i'm going to rise up early every day."
"i'm going to make you suffer."
"nobody here to sound the alarm."
"over time, people tell me their dreams grow distant."
"no more hungry ghosts in the chimney to feed."
"someday i will see you on your knees."
"say what you like. there won't be anybody listening."
"i got guys on every corner."
"i'm coming to swat you down like flies."
"you won't remember their faces later."
"there may come a day someday when we all look back and laugh."
"we may run out of bullets; we're never going to run out of hostages."
"if there's one thing i love, it's an infinite resource."
"i did not seek out the mission, but the mission found me."
"i mean to learn what it's like to be free."
"we're gonna need more bandages."
"we do get desperate now and again."
"i am not the first to follow the plan, just a cog in the machine."
"why wait until tomorrow?"
"victory awaits with the dawn."
"we can leave a nasty mark when we're gone."
"never any guns when you need 'em."
"only the desperate ever make it to the exit."
"you only see the jump-cuts and the close-ups; you never get the aerial view."
"every time they knock me down, i rise to my feet."
"sooner or later, everybody's gotta go."
"i'm gonna let the long night take me."
"every bender needs a blackout."
"every story needs a child who believes the brave hero's gonna be just fine."
"it meant something important, i guess."
"there was a chance we'd make it through this; it's safe to say now that we missed it."
"i will never lose hope, and i haven't lost hope. i'm just realistic."
"i will go down punching, but i will go down."
"you wanna call a medevac, now?"
"there won't be any words of wisdom from me."
"i'm gonna tell my friends to all go to hell."
"if it's blood you want, i've got plenty of it!"