Perspective's Sentence Starters; MIDNIGHTS by Taylor Swift (Part III)
HITS DIFFERENT
"You made a mess of me."
"They say that if it's right, you know."
"Each bar plays our song."
"Nothing has ever felt so wrong."
"Love is a lie."
"It hits different this time."
"Moving on was always easy for me to do."
"It hits different 'cause it's you."
"Rip the band-aid off."
"Skip town likе an asshole outlaw."
"Freedom felt like summеr then on the coast."
"The sun burns my heart and the sand hurts my feelings."
"I never don't cry at the bar."
"My sadness is contagious."
"I slur your name 'til someone puts me in a car."
"I stopped receiving invitations."
"I find the artifacts, cried over a hat, cursed the space that I needed."
"I trace the evidence."
"Make it make some sense."
"Why the wound is still bleeding?"
"You were the one that I loved."
"It's simple enough."
"This is why they shouldn't kill off the main guy."
"Dreams of your hair and your stare and sense of belief."
"You once believed in me."
"I held you for a while."
"Bet I could still melt your world."
"I heard your key turn in the door down the hallway."
"Is that your key in the door?"
"Is it okay?"
"Is it you?"
"Have they come to take me away?"
THE GREAT WAR
"My knuckles were bruised like violets."
"Cursed you as I sleep-talked."
"Maybe it was egos swinging."
"Maybe it was her."
"Flashes of the battle come back to me in a blur."
"All that bloodshed, crimson clover."
"Sweet dream was over."
"My hand was the one you reached for all throughout the Great War."
"I vowed not to cry anymore."
"Drank my poison all alone."
"You said I have to trust more freely."
"You were playing with fire."
"Maybe it's the past that's talking."
"I justified it."
"The bombs were closer."
"I vowed not to fight anymore."
"It turned into something bigger."
"Somewhere in the haze, got a sense I'd been betrayed."
"Soldier down on that icy ground."
"That was the night I nearly lost you."
"I really thought I'd lost you."
"We can plant a memory garden."
"Say a solemn prayer."
"There's no morning glory, it was war, it wasn't fair."
"We will never go back."
"The worst was over."
"We're burned for better."
"I vow I will always be yours."
BIGGER THAN THE WHOLE SKY
"No words appear before me in the aftermath."
"Every single thing I touch becomes sick with sadness."
"It's all over now."
"You were bigger than the whole sky."
"You were more than just a short time."
"I've got a lot to pine about."
"I've got a lot to live without."
"Did some force take you bеcause I didn't pray?"
"Every single thing to come has turned into ashes."
"It's not meant to be."
"I'm never gonna meet what could've been."
PARIS
"Your ex-friend's sister met someone at a club and he kissed her."
"Turns out, it was that guy you hooked up with ages ago."
"Some wannabe Z-lister."
"All the outfits were terrible."
"Did you see the photos?"
"No, I didn't, but thanks, though."
"I'm so in love that I might stop breathing."
"No, I didn't see the news."
"We were somewhere else."
"I was taken by the view."
"Privacy sign on the door and on my page and on the whole world."
"Romance is not dead if you keep it just yours."
"Levitate above all the messes made."
"Sip quiet by my side in the shade."
"Not the kind that's thrown."
"I wanna brainwash you into loving me forever."
"I wanna transport you to somewhere the culture's clever."
"Confess my truth in swooping, sloping, cursive letters."
"Let the only flashing lights be the tower at midnight."
HIGH INFIDELITY
"I didn't know you were keeping count."
"High infidelity."
"Put on your records and regret me."
"I bent the truth too far tonight."
"Your picket fence is sharp as knives."
"Do you really wanna know where I was?"
"Do I really have to chart the constellations in his eyes?"
"Dragged my feet right down the aisle."
"I'd pay if you'd just know me."
"Seemed like the right thing at the time."
"You know there's many different ways that you can kill the one you love."
"The slowest way is never loving them enough."
"Do I really have to tell you how he brought me back to life?"
"It's never enough."
"You were keeping count?"
GLITCH
"We were supposed to be just friends."
"You don't live in my part of town."
"But maybe I'll see you out some weekend."
"I think there's been a glitch."
"I'm not even sorry."
"It must be counterfeit."
"I was supposed to sweat you out."
"In search of glorious happenings of happenstance on someone else's playground."
"It's been two-thousand one-hundred ninety days of our love blackout."
"Our love is blacking out."
"The system's breaking down."
"I'd go back to wanting dudes who give nothing."
"I thought we had no chance."
"That's romance."
WOULD'VE, COULD'VE, SHOULD'VE
"If you would've blinked, then I would've looked away at the first glance."
"If you tasted poison, you could've spit me out at the first chance."
"If I was some paint, did it splatter on a promising grown man?"
"If I was a child, did it matter if you got to wash your hands?"
"All I used to do was pray."
"I damn sure never would've danced with the devil at nineteen."
"The God's honest truth is that the pain was heaven."
"Now that I'm grown, I'm scared of ghosts."
"Memories feel like weapons."
"Now that I know, I wish you'd left me wondering."
"If you never touched me, I would've gone along with the righteous."
"If I never blushed, then they could've never whispered about this."
"If you never saved me from boredom, I could've gone on as I was."
"Lord, you made me feel important."
"You tried to erase us."
"You're a crisis of my faith."
"If I'd only played it safe."
"God rest my soul."
"I miss who I used to be."
"I regret you all the time."
"I can't let this go."
"I fight with you in my sleep."
"The wound won't close."
"I keep on waiting for a sign."
"If clarity's in death, then why won't this die?"
"Living for the thrill of hitting you where it hurts."
"Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first."
DEAR READER
"If it feels like a trap, you're already in one."
"Pick somewhere and just run."
"Burn all the files."
"Desert all your past lives."
"If you don't recognize yourself, that means you did it right."
"Never take advice from someone who's falling apart."
"Bend when you can."
"Snap when you have to."
"You don't have to answer just 'cause they asked you."
"The greatest of luxuries is your secrets."
"When you aim at the devil, make sure you don't miss."
"I prefer hiding in plain sight."
"These desperate prayers of a cursed man."
"But darling, darling, please..."
"You wouldn't take my word for it if you knew who was talking."
I was walking to a house, not a home, all alone."
"My friends found friends who care"
"No one sees when you lose when you're playing solitaire."
"You should find another guiding light."
