* ghost quartet sentence pack / side 3 & 4
( feel free to change pronouns as necessary! )
TRACK I: LIGHTS OUT ❛ mommy, will you read me a story? ❜ ❛ honey, you’ve got to go to sleep. ❜ ❛ it’s not dark enough. there’s too many little lights. ❜ ❛ did your mom ever tell you stories? ❜ ❛ my mom wasn’t very nice. ❜ TRACK II: THE PHOTOGRAPH ❛ she had taken a photograph of something inappropriate, or rather a photograph at an inappropriate time. ❜ ❛ she sees her eyes when she closes her eyes. ❜ ❛ _____ believes in the restorative properties of the ocean, in the importance of sharing meals, and never drinking coffee on the go. ❜ ❛ she believes in freshly washed linens and flowers on the table. ❜ ❛ how did her belief system break down with the appearance of the ghost? ❜ ❛ _____ is the same as anyone else. ❜ TRACK III: BAD MEN ❛ how can this compare to the story i shall tell you tomorrow night? ❜ ❛ when i kill you, i will miss you. ❜ ❛ how will you grieve for me? ❜ ❛ i’ll drink all alone in my room and i’ll cry like a baby, and i’ll so much i’ll get sick, and i’ll lie on the bathroom floor and i’ll drink some more. ❜ ❛ if you can lose your temper, then i can lose my mind. ❜ ❛ i always knew you were shallow, i always knew you didn’t know me, i always knew you didn’t believe in me, o always knew that I bored you, i always knew I wasn’t pretty enough to hold you, i always knew you’d go with someone smarter than me, i always knew your mind was elsewhere, i always knew you were a snob. ❜ ❛ i am not a puzzle. i'm not some fucking logic puzzle for you to figure out. i am not a fucking game. ❜ ❛ why don’t you just go fuck your books? ❜ ❛ i am not a murderer or a crazy person. ❜ TRACK IV: USHER, PART THREE ❛ let the storm in. we don’t need moons or stars or god, we have the wind. ❜ ❛ there’s a man on the platform, screaming about the train coming. ❜ ❛ this has all happened before. ❜ ❛ and the pusher pushed _____ onto the subway track. ❜ ❛ i tell you, she is outside the door! ❜ ❛ that moment right before you die is such a gift. ❜ ❛ i thought of someone i loved very much, smiling in bed, clutching a teddy bear. ❜ TRACK V: PRAYER ❛ i will try to forgive myself for living in the dark, for my loss of wonder, for forgetting how to play. ❜ ❛ i will try to forgive myself for being absent in public. ❜ ❛ i will try to see myself as i am. ❜ SIDE 4 TRACK I: HERO ❛ guess i made a bad call. ❜ ❛ but i have no idea what i could have done different. ❜ ❛ guess i made a bad call. ❜ ❛ i want to take a picture at the end of the world. ❜ ❛ i never thought that things really die. ❜ ❛ in real life, there’s no such thing as ghosts. ❜ ❛ i’m not special, i’m the same as anyone else. ❜ ❛ you and i, we were always a mess. ❜ ❛ i guess it’s time to let the dead be dead. ❜ TRACK II: MIDNIGHT ❛ why did _____ not go to heaven? why would he still be hanging around here? ❜ ❛ well, maybe he lost his way. or didn’t know he was dead? soul wasn’t at peace. had unfinished work to do, wanted to watch over someone... ❜ ❛ maybe there just isn’t a heaven. i mean, that’s actually pretty likely so... ❜ ❛ do you ever think about kids? ❜ ❛ do i think about kids? uh... uh, i don’t know. i mean, i guess in the abstract, yeah... ❜ TRACK III: THE WIND & RAIN ❛ the man broke her heart like he didn’t care. ❜ ❛ she pushed her sister in the river to drown. ❜ ❛ he made a little fiddle of her breast bone, and he strung his fiddle bow with her long brown hair. ❜ ❛ oh, the wind and the rain. ❜
( side 1, side 2 )

















