* lyric starters from the album hospice by the antlers
potential triggers below.
feel free to change tenses / pronouns / shorten or lengthen / add to / etc. !
‘ i wish i had known in that first minute we met, the unpayable debt that i owed you. ’
‘ you hired me to make up for that. ’
‘ i didn’t believe them when they called you a hurricane thunderclap. ’
‘ you didn’t talk for awhile. ’
‘ you said you hated my tone. ’
‘ it made you feel so alone. ’
‘ i should’ve quit, but instead, i took care of you. ’
‘ i didn’t believe them when they told me that there was no saving you. ’
‘ sorry, i don’t know what i said. ’
‘ remind me again how everyone betrayed you. ’
‘ let me take your temperature. ’
‘ please, please calm down. ’
‘ can’t you see what you are doing? ’
‘ i hate my voice ‘cause it only makes you angry. ’
‘ i am bound to your bedside, your eulogy singer. ’
‘ i’d happily take all those bullets inside you and put them inside of myself. ’
‘ tell me how to stop this. ’
‘ i’m her only witness. ’
‘ we’ll put an end to him. ’
‘ no one ever has to know. ’
‘ we’re not old at all. ’
‘ we’re terrified of one another, terrified of what that means. ’
‘ we’re fucked and not getting un-fucked soon. ’
‘ we’re bigger strangers than we’ve ever been before. ’
‘ he told me something that i didn’t know i wanted to hear. ’
‘ there was nothing i could do to save you. ’
‘ the choir’s gonna sing and this thing is gonna kill you. ’
‘ i thought that it was beautiful, it made me a believer. ’
‘ this all bears repeating. ’
‘ tell me when you think that we became so unhappy. ’
‘ i didn’t mind you blaming me for your mistakes. ’
‘ no one’s gonna fix it for us, no one can. ’
‘ no one’s gonna listen, no one understands. ’
‘ there’s no open doors, there’s no way to get through. ’
‘ there’s no other witnesses, just us two. ’
‘ it was easier to lock the doors and kill the phones than to show my skin. ’
‘ the hardest thing is never to repent for someone else, it’s letting people in. ’
‘ this might take all night. ’
‘ the timing never seemed right. ’
‘ we can’t rely on photographs and visitation times. ’
‘ i just don’t know where to begin. ’
‘ i’ve got the keys, i’m letting people in. ’
‘ don’t bargain when you’re weak. ’
‘ don’t ever let anyone tell you you deserve that. ’
‘ you’ve got no interest in the life you live when you’re awake. ’
‘ you’ve been gone for quite awhile now. ’
‘ when i try to move my arms sometimes, they weigh too much to lift. ’
‘ i think you buried me awake, my one and only parting gift. ’