( * THE 1975 LYRIC STARTERS / A BRIEF INQUIRY …
* taken from the 1975′s third lp a brief inquiry into online relationships .
GIVE YOURSELF A TRY .
‘ you learn a couple things when you get to my age . ’
‘ friends don’t lie . ’
‘ it all tastes the same in the dark . ’
‘ so just give yourself a try . ’
‘ won’t you give yourself a try ? ’
‘ like context in a modern debate , i just took it out . ’
‘ the only apparatus required for happiness is your pain and fucking going outside . ’
‘ what would you say to your younger self ? ’
‘ growing a beard’s quite hard . ’
‘ whiskey never starts to taste nice . ’
TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME .
‘ you wet my eyes , but i don’t mind it . ’
‘ i tell you lies , but it’s only sometimes . ’
‘ you pick a fight and i’ll define it . ’
‘ i swear that i only called her one time . ’
‘ i think we need to rewind . ’
‘ you text that boy sometimes . ’
‘ i didn’t mean to two - time you . ’
‘ she said that i should’ve liked it . ’
HOW TO DRAW / PETRICHOR .
‘ i never learned how to draw . ’
‘ what if you die with all of the cameras ? ’
‘ take something and then make it brand new . ’
‘ try and do anything fourteen times . ’
‘ love yourself like someone you love . ’
‘ don’t take my advice . ’
‘ write a letter to your future self who won’t change . ’
‘ they can take anything as long as it’s true . ’
‘ what they can’t take is you telling them lies . ’
‘ lies , lies , lies , lies . ’
LOVE IT IF WE MADE IT .
‘ we’re fucking in a car . ’
‘ saying controversial things just for the hell of it . ’
‘ fuck your feelings . ’
‘ truth is only hearsay . ’
‘ we’re just left to decay . ’
‘ i’d love it if we made it . ’
‘ poison me , daddy . ’
‘ tell me something i don’t know . ’
‘ the war has been incited . ’
‘ guess what , you’re all invited . ’
BE MY MISTAKE .
‘ be my mistake . ’
‘ she bought me those jeans , the ones you like . ’
‘ i don’t want to hug . ’
‘ i just want to sleep . ’
‘ just wait till i give you a sign . ’
‘ i get lonesome sometimes . ’
‘ save all the jokes you’re gonna make . ’
‘ i shouldn’t have called cause we shouldn’t speak . ’
‘ you do make me hard , but she makes me weak . ’
‘ she makes me hard , but you make me weak . ’
‘ you make me weak . ’
SINCERITY IS SCARY .
‘ irony is okay , i suppose . ’
‘ you lack substance when you say something like , ‘ oh , what a shame . ’ ’
‘ i’m sure that you’re not just another girl . ’
‘ i’m sure that you’re gonna say that i was sexist . ’
‘ i feel like you’re running out of all the things i liked you for . ’
‘ why can’t we be friends ? ’
‘ why can’t we be friends , when we are lovers ? ’
‘ it always ends with us hating each other . ’
‘ instead of calling me out , you should be pulling me in . ’
‘ it’s only you that you’re deceiving . ’
‘ don’t have a child . ’
‘ don’t cramp your style . ’
‘ don’t have a child , don’t cramp your style . ’
I LIKE AMERICA & AMERICA LIKES ME .
‘ i’m scared of dying . ’
‘ is that on fire ? ’
‘ am i a liar ? ’
‘ i can’t be quiet . ’
‘ will this help me lay down ? ’
‘ no gun required . ’
‘ i’m scared of dying , it’s fine . ’
‘ would you please listen ! ’
‘ we can see it’s missing . ’
‘ when you bleed , say so . ’
THE MAN WHO MARRIED A ROBOT / LOVE THEME .
‘ do you love me ? ’
‘ yes . i love you very , very , very , very , very , very much . ’
‘ i am your best friend . ’
‘ i love you so much that i never , ever want us to be apart ever again . ’
‘ i feel like i could tell you anything . ’
‘ you can tell me anything . ’
‘ anything you say to me will stay strictly between you and the internet . ’
INSIDE YOUR MIND .
‘ i’ve been watching you walk . ’
‘ i’ve been learning the way that you talk . ’
‘ the back of your head is at the front of my mind . ’
‘ soon i’ll crack it open just to see what’s inside your mind . ’
‘ maybe i will wait until you’re fast asleep . ’
‘ maybe you are dreaming you’re in love with me . ’
‘ the only option left is to look and see . ’
‘ i’ve had dreams where there’s blood on you . ’
‘ i’ve had those dreams where you’re my wife . ’
IT’S NOT LIVING ( IF IT’S NOT WITH YOU ) .
‘ he falls asleep during conversations . ’
‘ the worst thing is that i’m in the same situation . ’
‘ all i do is sit and think about you . ’
‘ it’s not living if it’s not with you . ’
‘ we’re living in a simulation . ’
‘ i know you think you’re sly , but you need some imagination . ’
‘ i can’t stop sweating or control my feet . ’
‘ there’s a feeling , you’re replacing embrace . ’
‘ i feel sick and i know that i’ll lose . ’
SURROUNDED BY HEADS AND BODIES .
‘ you wear it like a dress , a post - traumatic mess . ’
‘ don’t sleep . ’
‘ it hurts to be awake . ’
‘ the things they make her take . ’
‘ we don’t speak . ’
‘ she stayed an extra week . ’
‘ i see her in my sleep . ’
MINE .
‘ there comes a time in a young man’s life , he should settle down and find himself a wife . ’
‘ i’m just fine ‘cause i know that you are mine . ’
‘ i fight crime online sometimes . ’
‘ my switch , your wine , both crying . ’
‘ i’m fine if you are fine . ’
‘ i see sunshine ‘cause i know that you are mine . ’
‘ you say that i’m wasting your time . ’
‘ things will be fine . ’
‘ for some reason , i just can’t say ‘ i do . ’ ’
I COULDN’T BE MORE IN LOVE .
‘ at the best of times i’m lonely in my mind . ’
‘ why would i rely on the things that i did right ? ’
‘ i gave you four years of my life . ’
‘ what about these feelings i’ve got ? ’
‘ we got it wrong and you said you’d had enough . ’
‘ i couldn’t be more in love . ’
‘ i’d give you all the years of my life . ’
I ALWAYS WANNA DIE ( SOMETIMES ) .
‘ i bet you thought your life would change . ’
‘ you built it to a high to say goodbye . ’
‘ you’re not the same as them . ’
‘ your death , it won’t happen to you . it happens to your family and your friends . ’
‘ i always wanna die , sometimes . ’
‘ you win , you lose , you sing the blues . ’
‘ there’s no point in buying concrete shoes . ’
‘ i can hardly speak and when i try it’s nothing but a squeak . ’
‘ if you can’t survive , just try . ’
102 .
‘ i like the way your face looks when i’m arguing with you . ’
‘ i’m not half as bad as what you’ve been told . ’
‘ when i see your pajamas , i can’t stop smiling at you . ’
‘ i’ve been pouring my heart out towards your optimistic grin . ’
‘ i like the cut of your jib . ’
‘ i like the way your face looks when you’re yapping on about him . ’
‘ on this shirt i found your smell and i just sat there for ages contemplating what to do with myself . ’
‘ we just sat there for ages talking about that boy who was getting on to you . ’
