FLORESCENCE ( sentence starters from the third studio album by maisie peters )
"My body's not a temple, more a bachelorette pad."
"My skin isn't thick, yeah, that shit made me cry."
"I'm not the coolest or the greatest in the club."
"I hope they represent us when the aliens invade."
"They'll ask me if I'm special, I'll say just to you."
"My lover likes me best with nothing on at all."
"I am healthy, I am yours and that's enough."
"I wanted to be immortal."
"I want forests, I want fires."
"I wanted to be immortal, now I'm fine with growing old."
"I was chasing phantoms."
"Where there was push, now there is pull."
"I am drawn to your bones."
"Love, when it's the right kind, well, it always points you home."
"Love was a myth, now it's my morning coffee."
"I don't need accolades or everyone to want me."
"You want me and that's as good as it gets."
SAY MY NAME IN YOUR SLEEP
"Does my memory kill or is it letting you live?"
"I'd rather be hated than forgotten."
"You can change the lock, but I will never quite leave you."
"I know it's done, I know it's over."
"You're better far away from me."
"You're happy, I'm happy for you."
"I hope you say my name in your sleep."
"If these walls could talk, I swear they'd scream."
"It was love, don't lie to me, babe."
"It's the least I deserve and the thanks I get."
"Can't gimme the world, so give me my name under your breath."
"I lived on your razor's edge for about a year or so."
"I came out seeing things, I came out barely alive."
"She thinks you're so magic, it's fucking barbaric."
"I wish you'd never happened."
"I kept your promises until they all grew teeth."
"It's all just one pathetic, devastating lie."
"I wish your awful hands had never had me at all."
"You are a false prophet and a fool's promise."
"I can see it, the life I could've lived."
"If I'd listened a little closer, if I'd loved you a little less."
"I can see it, like a nightmare, like a vision."
"The signal's bad, that's why the phone never rings."
"No white dress in a frame 'cause you cheated on her."
"I called in every favor."
"Give a man one sword, he thinks that he's a savior."
"Once you got what you want, you didn't want me."
"Let you in my home, let you in. my pictures."
"You love a strong woman, until it makes you bitter."
"Now you say you're self-made, guess your memory's fuzzy."
"Did you get off going to bed with the kingmaker?"
"Your life, I dreamed about it."
"We had a moment, had an opening, had an almost first kiss."
"I had to see about it, I had to see about you."
"Heaven knows that you're still on my mind."
"Does your telephone still talk 'bout me sometimes?"
"I let go but I'm ready, I'm ready now."
"I love you, I promise, and I will till I die."
"So what are you doing tomorrow, and for the rest of your life?"
"This love's got me possessive."
"If you lay a hand on him/her/them, we're both getting arrested."
"Sorry, your kisses make me cocky."
"If I saw him/her/them in this light, I'd want him/her/them too."
"They can look, but they can't ever touch."
"Ride or die, I said it and I meant it."
"Your name lives in my chest."
"I can't go back, and I can't go home, and I can't move forward."
"I'm the scene of the crime, and the bore of the bar, and a memory hoarder."
"It was black and white, but I see it in color."
"You keep your distance, but not your word."
"You said you loved me, how can that be true?"
"I care about you, knowing you couldn't care less."
"My heart's a ticking bomb, you set it off."
"I'll be alright, if you let me."
"Loving you is evergreen."
"If you wanna call, oh, please don't."
"It will sink me if you're holding on."
"So please be a stranger, be gone."
"You were something more than mortal."
"God, there's nothing like a girl and her favorite conspiracy."
"It sure was something, believing like that."
"You were something more than mortal, and you were in love with me."
"I just don't believe in you anymore."
"Tryna make a man out of you, impossible."
"I still believe in miracles and prophecies, I just don't believe in you anymore."
"Do you miss my pretty, my funny, my touch?"
"Does she look like me? Course she does."
"Will you ever move on? Will we ever be done?"
"Holding on to memories won't keep you warm."
"Now you got a miserable life."
"But who am I kidding? You never listened."
"I used to think this town was taken by you."
"I don't miss you, it's like freedom."
"I'm not bitter, I'm not dying."
"I forget about you when I'm not even trying."
"Can't bait the girl if the girl's not biting."
"I know you loved me, yeah, the best that you could."
"Everything worked out like it should."
"I don't want you to come back."
"You'd walk in and light up a room."
"You were nothing worth crying for."
"My heart used to break, now it's all muscle."
"I believed ya, but to be fair, I didn't know ya."
NOTHING LIKE BEING IN LOVE
"Nothing like being in love with somebody honest, somebody kind."
"I know now what we had was nothing like being in love."
"Someone is making me smile now."
"We weren't right, but God, we were good."
"I was always something you just never quite understood."
