florence + the machine: high as hope | sentence starters
❝ i had started to crack. ❞
❝ you had to be an angel. ❞
❝ i’m so high, i’m so high. ❞
❝ love became an act of defiance. ❞
❝ always down to hide with you. ❞
❝ i started to starve myself. ❞
❝ i thought that love was a kind of emptiness. ❞
❝ i didn’t have to call it loneliness. ❞
❝ we all have a hunger. ❞
❝ they’re gonna crucify me. ❞
❝ how could anything bad ever happen to you? ❞
❝ you make a fool of death with your beauty. ❞
❝ i thought that love was in the drugs. ❞
❝ the more i took, the more it took away and i could never get enough. ❞
❝ oh, you look so free! ❞
❝ don’t let it get you down. ❞
❝ you’re the best thing i’ve seen. ❞
❝ for a moment, i forget to worry ❞
❝ i thought it doesn’t get better than this. ❞
❝ there can be nothing better than this. ❞
❝ the world is at your fingertips. ❞
❝ everything i ever did was just another way to scream your name. ❞
❝ we’re just children wanting children of our own. ❞
❝ i want a space to watch things grow. ❞
❝ do i have to let it go? ❞
❝ oh god, what do i know? ❞
❝ there’s a special kind of sadness that seems to come with spring. ❞
❝ you keep me up at night. ❞
❝ you know i still like you the most. ❞
❝ you can never know the places that i’d go. ❞
❝ you’ll always be my favorite ghost. ❞
❝ sometimes i think it’s getting better, and then it gets much worse. ❞
❝ is it just part of the process? ❞
❝ jesus christ, it hurts. ❞
❝ shower your affection. let it rain on me. ❞
❝ a good friend told me you’ve been staying out so late. ❞
❝ be careful, my darling. ❞
❝ be careful what it takes. ❞
❝ from what i’ve seen so far, the good ones always seem to break. ❞
❝ i was kissing strangers, i was causing such a scene. ❞
❝ i’ve been flying for too long. ❞
❝ i can tell that i’m in trouble. ❞
❝ i feel like i’m about to fall. ❞
❝ i can hear the sirens. ❞
❝ i thought i was flying. ❞
❝ maybe i’m dying tonight. ❞
❝ i’m sorry i ruined your birthday. ❞
❝ i guess i could go back to university, try and make my mother proud. ❞
❝ i don’t think it would be too long before i was drunk again. ❞
❝ this is the only thing i’ve ever had any faith in. ❞
❝ you were the one i treated the worst, only because you loved me the most. ❞
❝ we haven’t spoken in a long time. ❞
❝ i don’t know who I was back then. ❞
❝ i hope i would never treat anyone like that again. ❞
❝ tell me what i can do. i’ll make it up to you. ❞
❝ you’ve always been my north star. ❞
❝ i have to tell you something: i’m still afraid of the dark. ❞
❝ you make this cold world beautiful. ❞
❝ you only take as much as you can grab with two hands. ❞
❝ how’s that working out for you, honey? ❞
❝ i drink too much coffee and think of you often. ❞
❝ are you afraid? ‘cause i’m terrified. ❞
❝ you remind me that it’s such a wonderful thing to love. ❞
❝ in our hearts, we know the truth. ❞
❝ i cannot get you close enough. ❞
❝ you can always find me here. ❞
❝ lord, don’t let me break this. ❞
❝ we have no need to fight. ❞
❝ it hurts in ways i can’t describe. ❞
❝ we’re sorry, we thought you didn’t care. ❞
❝ how does it feel now that you’ve scratched that itch? ❞
❝ the streets, they still run with blood. ❞
❝ give me arms to pray with instead of ones that hold too tightly. ❞
❝ i feel nervous in a way that can’t be named. ❞
❝ we were a family pulled from the flood. ❞
❝ i’ve always been in love with you. could you tell it from the moment that i met you? ❞
❝ you said it didn’t hurt at all. ❞
❝ he/she/they told me that he loved me, and then ghosted me again. ❞
❝ was it so far to fall? ❞
❝ it’s hard to write about being happy. ❞
❝ i find that happiness is an extremely uneventful subject. ❞
❝ there would be no grand choirs to sing about two people sitting doing nothing. ❞
❝ i must confess: i did it all for myself. ❞
❝ i gathered you here to hide from some vast unnameable fear. ❞
❝ the loneliness never left me. ❞
❝ if tomorrow it’s all over, at least we had it for a moment. ❞
❝ oh, darling, things seem so unstable. ❞
❝ this will be entirely forgotten. ❞