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* 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 )

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* ghost quartet sentence pack / side 2

( feel free to change pronouns as necessary! )

TRACK I:  THE ASTRONOMER ❛ i don’t go to church much, but when i do, i stand and i sing loud. ❜ ❛ i am filled with wonder from the stars. ❜ ❛ i never saw anything i couldn’t blame on my mind. ❜ ❛ i don’t believe in ghosts. ❜ ❛ i'm confounded by music, and babies and laughter, and stories and goodness, infinity and luck. ❜ ❛ i’m confused by the notion that somebody loves me. ❜ ❛ i wish i could sing like that, but i don’t practice enough. ❜ ❛ there’s a man in iran who says he talks to ghosts, and the way that he does it is he hasn’t spoken to anyone alive in 42 years. he turns his mind off every day and stares at the wall and he is one with the universe. ❜ TRACK II:  FAMILY MEETING ❛ seven! hey that’s pretty old! ❜ ❛ maybe that’d be sad for you, but maybe it’d be great for me. ❜ ❛ it’s not so perfect it’s boring. ❜ ❛ everyone likes to be a little sad some of the time. ❜ ❛ you’re gonna be dead in like thirty years, and even less if you keep drinking like that. ❜ ❛ you’ll think, ‘god, that thirty years of being sad was just stupid, but who cares anymore because now it’s just an eternity of soul.’ ❜ ❛ so why don’t you just shut up! why don’t you just have another fucking drink and shut the fuck up. ❜ TRACK III:  FOUR FRIENDS ❛ now i got plenty of money, but that doesn’t mean i don’t love you. ❜ ❛ i like to lose my mind; get blurry, sloppy, boozy, and blind. ❜ ❛ like to put my hand on a pretty girl’s knee. ❜ ❛ i don’t care much for god, no matter what set of rules you got. ❜ ❛ protestant this and a-catholic that; to me it’s just diddly-squat. ❜ ❛ i know that he was thinking about something, maybe something sad from long ago. ❜ ❛ i’m lost and i don’t care at all. ❜ TRACK IV:  FATHERS & SONS ❛ let me drink tonight, don’t bother me. ❜ ❛ you all can go away and just the bottle can stay. ❜ ❛ i’m never really happy, and i’m never really sad. ❜ ❛ i’m a pretty bad lover, and i’d probably be a deadbeat dad. ❜ ❛ if anyone pushes me, i’m gonna push them back. ❜ ❛ there’s a man on the platform, screaming about the apocalypse, screaming about the day of revelation. ❜ TRACK VI:  THE TELESCOPE ❛ look into my telescope, tell me what you see. ❜ ❛ i see every time man cried out and raised his sword against god. ❜ ❛ everything is lost, all is gone. ❜ ❛ she tries to find the joy in life but she is wasting away. ❜ ❛ i love the way you see the world, i love the way your soul sings. ❜ ❛ i wish that i could feel things. ❜ TRACK VII:  TANGO DANCER ❛ she’s been dead a long time now. ❜ ❛ i always figured you could have gone on forever. ❜ ❛ i have a lot of memories, and i have a lot of sadness. ❜ ❛ i am haunted by that memory of who i used to be. ❜ ❛ i was empty then, and i’m empty now, but it’s not the same at all. ❜ ❛ oh, how dazzling i could be. ❜ ❛ so she danced alone, and i sat in a chair by the wall, all alone. ❜ TRACK VIII:  MONK ❛ you tell such wonderful stories. ❜ ❛ every sound gives him migraine thickness. ❜ ❛ will you dance with me? ❜ ❛ do you remember a time when we weren’t sisters? do you remember anything else? ❜

( side 1, side 3 + 4 )

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* ghost quartet sentence pack / side 1

( feel free to change pronouns as necessary! )

TRACK I: I DON’T KNOW ❛ i don’t know, but i’ve been told. ❜ ❛ i don’t even know how to begin. ❜ ❛ where is my ghost in the mirror? ❜ ❛ i’ve got a thousand-one stories, every single one of them’s a lie. ❜ ❛ i will read, you will listen, and this terrible night will pass. ❜ ❛ when i was a child, i used to play with the voices in my head. ❜ ❛ now i ride the subway every night, staring at the game on my phone, keep my head down. ❜ ❛ i don’t know if this is me at all or just some ghost of me that i dreamed up just to sing myself to sleep. ❜ TRACK II:  THE CAMERA SHOP ❛ i do not like phones. ❜ ❛ she wanted to hold his hand. ❜ ❛ hold me tight, hold me tight! ❜ ❛ i’m a little confused, and more than a little frightened. ❜ ❛ she pretended to love. she pretended to care. ❜ TRACK III:  STARCHILD ❛ when i was a baby, i was blessed by a stranger in waters i didn’t understand. ❜ ❛ now i’m infected with disbelief and blasphemy. ❜ ❛ i’ll never have a holy land. ❜ ❛ i am a ghost in the eyes of my god. ❜ ❛ i will vomit this loser out of me. ❜ ❛ i will become the next big thing. ❜ ❛ it’s time to get out of bed and be the starchild i can be. ❜ ❛ the starlight i see is a billion lightyears old. ❜ TRACK V:  USHER, PART ONE ❛ i suffer from a family evil. ❜ ❛ there are only certain peculiar sounds which do not inspire me with horror. ❜ ❛ i dread the future. ❜ ❛ she is wasting away. ❜ ❛ why did you leave me? why did you disappear? ❜ TRACK VI:  SOLDIER & ROSE ❛ i have gotten used to death. ❜ ❛ ghosts don’t bother me anymore. ❜ ❛ if i told you i loved you, would you give me some honey? ❜ ❛ when i saw you, i felt a little shock, and that all the stars and moons and skies and birds and trees and sharks and seas and even i began to cry. ❜ ❛ if i told you this is special, and that love is more than chemicals. that it’s me and you and angels too... ❜ ❛ i won’t come back to haunt you. ❜ TRACK VII:  ANY KIND OF DEAD PERSON ❛ if you could be a dead guy, what kind of dead guy would you be? ❜ ❛ i’d be a ghost. ❜ ❛ i just wanna be a ghost and go ‘woooo’ all night long. ❜

( side 2, side 3 + 4 )

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* in trousers sentence pack

( feel free to change pronouns as necessary! )

❛ lately i’ve been thinking maybe  _____  needs attention of a private sort. ❜ ❛ should his mother be blamed? ❜ ❛ ____ is my very best friend in school. i’m embarrassed and ashamed. ❜ ❛ pardon me, boys and girls, but i’m having a seizure. ❜ ❛ ____ talks of death, he imitates a slaughter. ❜ ❛ things on which we most depend seem to fail us in the end. ❜ ❛ you’re off sitting with another someone in another room.  ❜ ❛ that’s alright, dear, you go on digging your grave, dear. ❜ ❛ when i saw your lips, i knew they didn’t belong to me. ❜ ❛ your mother reports your father’s blue, dear, and your father reports he’s fine. ❜ ❛ your mother withheld her love from you, dear. ❜ ❛ he has failed to die. ❜ ❛ i didn’t ask to be your mother. ❜ ❛ i tell him he’s a person. he says i’m just ridiculous. ❜ ❛ a person has his wants and needs. ❜ ❛ stop making me crazy. ❜ ❛ a good man never fails. ❜ ❛ i am living proof that cowards can still rise. ❜ ❛ i can’t excuse a boy who’s lost his nerve. ❜ ❛ stay clear of love and jail. ❜ ❛ if i try to go to sleep, i might, but the phone will ring. ❜ ❛ that’s it for girls. ❜ ❛ i’m through with words. ❜ ❛ here’s my chance to survive my life. ❜ ❛ hide my face, change my place of worship, call me a disgrace and then be done with blame. ❜ ❛ here i sit; drunk and self-indulgent. ❜ ❛ joy once seemed so near. ❜ ❛ no one looks busy in this kitchen and my breakfast isn’t ready and my stomach aches! ❜ ❛ ‘wait until i’m older, then i’ll kill you’ is his one unspoken vow. ❜ ❛ i don’t want miracles from heaven, just some eggies over spinach over toast. ❜ ❛ life is lonely, life is rotten, and thankfully short. ❜ ❛ waving his hands like a twit, he throws a fit. then a knife. ❜ ❛ this is shit; this isn’t breakfast. ❜ ❛ i dreamt last night you almost held me. ❜ ❛ hold me. hold him too. but stay. ❜ ❛ you can’t go on as if you’re dying. ❜ ❛ i can’t believe we’ve worked to end up this way. ❜ ❛ this is much better for the both of us. ❜ ❛ he thinks i’m sweet but he treats me kinda funny. ❜ ❛ i see ____ going down. ❜ ❛ isn’t it delightful playing easy? ❜ ❛ high school ladies at five o’ clock. ❜ ❛ does he laugh? touch? drink? screw? ❜ ❛ i thought you’d introduce me to the wonders of the bed, and also treat me nice. ❜ ❛ _____ is cute, though rarely good. ❜ ❛ don’t touch my goddamn eyes, you little shit. i’ll throw a fit. i’ll beat your head in with a hammer. ❜ ❛ just keep your dirty fingers away from my face, kid. ❜ ❛ listen, i’m a bastard bummer with a penis. ❜ ❛ ____ always gets the things he wants except the things he wants. ❜ ❛ please please please please please rub your hands between my knees. ❜ ❛ it’s anxiety when you recall girls who touch you when you’re walking down the hall. ❜ ❛ the sneaking in, the passing out, and where to place the blame? ❜ ❛ if i touch her, would she let me fall asleep? ❜ ❛ we talked ‘til four. he talked more. ❜ ❛ love me for what i am, not what i try to be. ❜ ❛ i try too much to impress other people, often my inferiors. ❜ ❛ the thing about explorers is: they discover things that are already there. ❜ ❛ i didn’t know i’d make you lonely. ❜ ❛ then i thought of love, then i thought of death, then i made a deal. ❜ ❛ my body is not yours to hold. ❜ ❛ i wash my face, then drink beer, then i weep, say a prayer and induce insincere self-abuse until i’m fast asleep. ❜ ❛ i know this girl. i call her my wife. she is my wife. she  is my thorn in the bushes. ❜ ❛ no happy endings and no fuss. ❜ ❛ no one here to kick in bed. no one here to rest my head against. i am so alone in the middle of the night. ❜ ❛ they said they’d never lose their love and then they lost their love. ❜ ❛ women sit like angels; men like vultures. ❜ ❛ i write to keep the pain alive. ❜

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* next to normal sentence pack ( act 2 )

❛ hey, isn’t three clubs a little much for a tuesday night? ...wednesday morning? ❜ ❛ they told me it would change me, though they don’t know how it does. ❜ ❛ i am worlds away from who i was. ❜ ❛ i’m trying to enjoy it but i’m missing all the fun. ❜ ❛ this is, like, the fifth night in a row that i’ve had to come find you at some random club. ❜ ❛ i’ve missed you these days. i thought you might call. it’s been weeks. ❜ ❛ have you been on the scene? ‘cause you look like a mess. ❜ ❛ will you come to this dance? it’s some spring formal dance. it’s march first, and it’s cheese, but it’s fun and it’s free. ❜ ❛ i don’t do dances. ❜ ❛ i couldn’t give a flying fuck what’s normal. ❜ ❛ do you still feel your head is filled with concrete? ❜ ❛ it was raining. it was portland. you eloped. ❜ ❛ maybe get us back to better than before. ❜ ❛ gonna get us back to normal, gonna get us back to good. ❜ ❛ your life has kind of sucked, i think. ❜ ❛ you wonder which is worse: the symptom or the cure. ❜ ❛ say wait and i’ll wait. ❜ ❛ you remind me of me and how fucked up i can be. ❜ ❛ i don’t know how this started so i won’t know when it’s done. ❜ ❛ we played it for the baby. sometimes it helped him sleep. ❜ ❛ how could i ever forget? ❜ ❛ you think this will help but it won’t. ❜ ❛ i was a child raising a child. ❜ ❛ this was the moment my life was set. ❜ ❛ why would you want to remember the things that hurt you? ❜ ❛ enduring and coping and hurting and hoping for day after fucking day. why stay? ❜ ❛ the promise i made to stay and i stay true. ❜ ❛ one thing that’s sure is that there is no cure, but that doesn’t mean we don’t fight. ❜ ❛ maybe the falling isn’t so bad after all. ❜ ❛ it’s time for you to start thinking of your own happiness. ❜ ❛ i see me in you. ❜ ❛ where has all this caring been for __ years? ❜ ❛ maybe we can’t be okay. but maybe we’re tough and we’ll try anyway. ❜ ❛ we wanted to give you a normal life, but i realize i have no clue what that is. ❜ ❛ you look like a star. ❜ ❛ i thought we were through. me and you... ❜ ❛ you say that right here. but then give it a year, or ten years, or a life. i could end up your wife/husband/spouse, sitting staring at walls, throwing shit down the stairs, freaking out at the store, running nude down the street, bleeding out in the bath... ❜ ❛ sometimes life is insane. but crazy, i know i can do. ❜ ❛ crazy is perfect and fucked up is perfect and i will be perfect for you. ❜ ❛ so anyway, i’m leaving. i thought you’d like to know. ❜ ❛ you’re faithful come what may, but clearly i can’t stay. ❜ ❛ with you always believing that we can still come through, it makes me feel the fool to know that it’s not true. ❜ ❛ what doctors called dysfunction, we tried to call romance. ❜ ❛ and now you act like you just don’t give a damn. ❜ ❛ i know you told her that i’m not worth a damn. ❜ ❛ so it’s just me and you for now. ❜ ❛ you can’t sit here in the dark, and all alone. ❜ ❛ we’ve waited far too long for all that’s wrong to be made right. ❜ ❛ you find out you don’t have to be happy at all to be happy you’re alive. ❜ ❛ going home has never really been a solution to my problems. ❜ ❛ seriously? you’re, like, number three on my list of issues. ❜

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* next to normal sentence pack ( act 1 )

❛ what are you doing up? it’s 3:30. ❜ ❛ it’s the seventh night this week i’ve sat ‘til morning, imagining the ways you might have died. ❜ ❛ you’ve got to let go, mom/dad. i’m almost eighteen. ❜ ❛ everything’s great! why wouldn’t it be great? it’s great. ❜ ❛ some days i think i’m dying, but i’m really only trying to get through. ❜ ❛ what doesn’t kill me doesn’t kill me. ❜ ❛ it only hurts when i say ‘it’s just another day,’ ❜ ❛ we’re a perfect loving family.  if they say we’re not then fuck ‘em. ❜ ❛ i think the house is spinning. ❜ ❛ everything’s fine. i’m just... making sandwiches. on the floor. ❜ ❛ so you graduate early, you’re gone as of may, and there’s nothing your paranoid parents can say. ❜ ❛ we’ve gone to school together for, like, six years. i sit behind you in like four classes. ❜ ❛ you give up way too easily. ❜ ❛ he knows my deepest secrets. i know his name. ❜ ❛ oh, you’re one of those pretentious stoner types. ❜ ❛ what did mozart know anyway? he should have just smoked a bowl and jammed on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. ❜ ❛ i was so young. and so dumb. and now i am old. ❜ ❛ now there’s no sex; she’s depressed; and me, I’m just tired. ❜ ❛ they say love is blind, but believe me: love is insane. ❜ ❛ i don’t feel like myself. i mean, i don’t feel anything. ❜ ❛ your mom is, like, in the next room. ❜ ❛ i’m one fuck-up from disaster. ❜ ❛ this is one fucked up seduction. ❜ ❛ how do you know this isn’t a sign saying we belong together? ❜ ❛ how do you know it’s not a sign saying ‘get new rubbers?’ ❜ ❛ i miss my life. ❜ ❛ everything’s great here. fantastic! i disinfected the entire house, rewired the computer, and did some decoupage. ❜ ❛ we’ve been going out for nine weeks and three days. don’t i get to meet your family? ❜ ❛ i know that you’re hurting. i’m hurting, too. ❜ ❛ it’s like living on a cliffside, not knowing when you’ll dive. ❜ ❛ you don’t know what it’s like to live that way. ❜ ❛ are you wanting all that she can’t give? ❜ ❛ i wish i could fly. i’d fly far away from here. ❜ ❛ i love you as much as i can. ❜ ❛ they have depression chatrooms? ❜ ❛ when i was young, my mother called me high-spirited. she would know. she was so high-spirited, she was banned from the PTA. ❜ ❛ most people who think they’re happy just haven’t thought about it enough. most people who think they’re happy are actually just stupid. ❜ ❛ this is never going to get better, is it? ❜ ❛ you know, _____, it’s not all about your comfort. ❜ ❛ if you won’t grieve me, you won’t leave me behind. ❜ ❛ the baby wasn’t planned. neither was the marriage. ❜ ❛ i couldn’t hold him/her in the hospital. ❜ ❛ that’s the first time you’ve mentioned _____ in weeks of therapy. ❜ ❛ well that seems very... fucked. ❜ ❛ i know i have to help her/him/them but hell if i know how. ❜ ❛ what makes you think i’d lose my mind for you? ❜ ❛ take this chance ‘cause it may be our last. ❜

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* charlie & the chocolate factory ( OBCR )

❛ who ever could there be who doesn't love the tooth-tickling, tongue-tastical taste of a sweet bar of soft milk chocolate? except dogs, of course. ❜ ❛ i need to find a new me. ❜ ❛ i have to go back out into the world. ❜ ❛ i haven’t been out there in a very, very long time. ❜ ❛ it’s true. i’m obsessed! ❜ ❛ he died. commercially, he died. ❜ ❛ they say he hates all humanity. ❜ ❛ who cares how the stuff’s made as long as kids buy it? ❜ ❛ you know what sort of story i want. ❜❛ my dad, he took us to the sea. ❜ ❛ she was happy as a mom can be. ❜ ❛ i used to dream of a mate who would bring me lots of sweets. ❜ ❛ yes, my outside’s soft and flabby but my inside’s made of steel. ❜ ❛ i’m excited but keep eating. ❜ ❛ and when ____ says ‘obey,’ you’d better find a way. ❜ ❛ and when she finally falls asleep, we pray and say ‘amen.’ ❜ ❛ until tomorrow when it all begins again. ❜ ❛ around here, daddy gets the final word. ❜ ❛ what could possibly go wrong? ❜ ❛ we teach our kids that when they lose, they’re winners. ❜ ❛ klonopin, ativan, paxil, and valium... i need a pill just to sit down and tally them. ❜ ❛ though he’s quite the malcontent, someday he might be president. ❜ ❛ you gotta break rules to get the job done. ❜ ❛ my daddy says that i’m the best, my daddy says that i’ll go far. ❜ ❛ they said before my teeth could grow, i talked a mile a minute. ❜ ❛ all we can offer you are dreams in every size. ❜ ❛ i can still feel his laughter and the hand that i would hold. ❜ ❛ if you don’t make a wish, i’ll make one for you. ❜ ❛ a journey of a thousand miles begins with just one step. ❜ ❛ it must be believed to be seen. ❜ ❛ my childhood home was bland like yours. ❜ ❛ let’s hope that you’re a bit like me. ❜ ❛ do things appear quite strange now? ❜ ❛ so much time, so little to do? please strike that, reverse it. i meant the other way. ❜ ❛ we could talk all day... except we won’t! ❜ ❛ i’m fascinated by nuts! i used to be one myself. ❜ ❛ want to change the world? there’s nothing to it. ❜ ❛ everyone loves fudge. ❜ ❛ ____ was never good with the things he/she/they got. ❜ ❛ they only move and exercise their clicking finger and their thumb. ❜ ❛ what could possibly be better than a lifetime supply of sweets? ❜ ❛ we ask how but never why. ❜ ❛ ‘odd’ is a gift from god. ❜