if/then → lyrics starters
slightly edited in some cases to work for rp purposes.
feel free to change phrasing or pronouns to fit your muse(s)!
❝ Oh my God, what the hell did I do? ❞
❝ I’m flirting with forty. ❞
❝ What if I’m bound for disaster? ❞
❝ Will I ever just learn how to live and not wonder what if? ❞
❝ Why do I do this? Obsess and debate. ❞
❝ Most of my choices turned out to be wrong. ❞
❝ How can this make any difference? ❞
❝ Today a pigeon shit right on my head. ❞
❝ The Virgin Mary appeared in my bread. ❞
❝ Those are the signs that you can’t ignore! ❞
❝ I’m too old for all that shit. ❞
❝ The odds are I’m some two-faced, lying freak. ❞
❝ You never see the worst that things can be. ❞
❝ Odds are I will do what most men do and hurt you too. ❞
❝ What the hell are you looking at? ❞
❝ Who are you to judge me? ❞
❝ There’s a chance that it’ll all be alright. ❞
❝ It’s possible I’m pushing this a little too far. ❞
❝ It’s not like things can get a whole lot worse than they are. ❞
❝ And _____ plays dumb, surprised that I want him. ❞
❝ Can I ever just feel what I feel? ❞
❝ I’ve got a taste for certain men who will treat me like shit. ❞
❝ Romance has again run amuck. ❞
❝ How’d I end up lying naked with you? ❞
❝ I was stone-cold stupid sober, so I can’t blame the drink. ❞
❝ You’re no good at small talk. ❞
❝ I’m awkward, ungrateful and sometimes I’m hateful. ❞
❝ Deep down, I’m a coward. ❞
❝ The only thing more frightening is to say “What might have been?”. ❞
❝ You don’t need to love me. ❞
❝ Don’t make me any promises, just promise we’re not through. ❞
❝ You don’t need to need me. ❞
❝ We can keep on being lonely but we don’t have to be apart. ❞
❝ I’ll never even ask you to let me have your heart. ❞
❝ I’ll never break your heart. ❞
❝ You don’t need to love me the way that I love you. ❞
❝ I’ve got no time for playing nice. ❞
❝ If you’re not drinkin’ then something’s new. ❞
❝ It just…seems so traditional. ❞
❝ I might want children but not like this. ❞
❝ He thinks he loves me and I know it’s not true. ❞
❝ I want that job. I want to give it everything I have. ❞
❝ Your teeny tiny swimmers, they’re determined little guys. ❞
❝ Everyone’s waiting on you. ❞
❝ We’re so excited just to know you’ll soon be here. ❞
❝ If I say that you don’t scare me, I’m a liar. ❞
❝ It terrifies me just to say “My pregnant wife”. ❞
❝ I’m not ready – not a bit. ❞
❝ There’s this macho act I’ll sell you while inside I lose my shit. ❞
❝ Is it true you’ll stick around for eighteen years? ❞
❝ Life is what you make it. ❞
❝ It makes my life to know I helped make you. ❞
❝ If my asshole dad could do it, I can too. ❞
❝ I found myself a woman, or a man, and had a son. ❞
❝ Somewhere there’s a world where you and I can still be friends. ❞
❝ What is it that you’re afraid of? Being hurt? Let down? Destroyed? ❞
❝ I’ll be the best worst mistake you ever made. ❞
❝ It’s not that I don’t love you ‘cause I don’t not love you. ❞
❝ I’d lie to say I’m never sometimes always thinking of you. ❞
❝ When something’s deeply felt, it seems shallow just to say the thing that’s expected.❞
❝ You tricked me into saying that. ❞
❝ I said it and you said it and I know you meant it, too. ❞
❝ Don’t do it, I need you. ❞
❝ Don’t leave me, I love you. ❞
❝ Don’t say that you love me ‘cause what does it matter? ❞
❝ You’re going to leave me. So leave me, whatever. ❞
❝ It’s not like I need you. ❞
❝ Let’s look at this calmly, discuss how I hate you. ❞
❝ You’re the reason I think this life might not be meaningless. ❞
❝ With you I never feel I’m out of place. ❞
❝ God damn it, you did it. I knew you would do it. ❞
❝ God damn you, you asshole, you motherfucker! ❞
❝ I will never let this world take me away from you. ❞
❝ I see him in the faces of the boys he left behind and die a bit with every tiny smile. ❞
❝ You learn not to count the deadly days as they fade into years. ❞
❝ Could I please go out some less expected way? ❞
❝ Yes, marriage is a bastard, but love is always good. ❞
❝ Love will keep on living when the shit hits the fan. ❞
❝ If you saw him and saw all the hurt you would know, would you hold him while you had him or let him go? ❞
❝ If you knew that your laughter would not last forever but you knew while it did you would breathe it like air. Would you let him make you love him? ❞
❝ What would you do if you could do it all over? ❞
❝ If you could go back knowing what you know now, what would you do? ❞
❝ I never thought I’d get a second chance. I thought I was done. Then I met you. ❞
❝ I never dreamed I could learn how to love again. ❞
❝ Thank you for finding me. ❞
❝ Fuck you for making me think that this life might be fair. ❞
❝ I’m through with fighting. I’m much too old. ❞