BASTILLE’S ❝ WILD WORLD ❞ SENTENCE STARTERS
“it goes in one ear, out the other.”
“what’s gonna be left of the world if you’re not in it?”
“now stop worrying and get dressed.”
“every minute and every hour, i miss you.”
“i can’t quite believe my ears.”
“you’re making me feel nervous.”
“do you even know what year it is?”
“won’t you stop firing up the crazies?”
“kindness is what you showed to me.”
“you left me wanting more.”
“you want nothing in return - i feel guilty.”
“my back’s up against the wall.”
“never good, just the bad and the ugly.”
“i can’t stop thinking about it.”
“tell me, did you see the news tonight?”
“there’s no looking up for heaven.”
“we made the best of what we had, you know?”
“and was it feeling real?”
“i’ll take my chances on the curb here with you.”
“did you really think i’d fall to my knees?”
“i will never understand the power you were holding over me.”
“hurt the ones you love the most easily.”
“if you’re gonna hit me, hit me harder, ‘cause you better knock me out the first time.”
“who’s this man, who’s this act i hide behind?”
“this is a game, no wrongs, no right.”
“it pays to be the nice guy sometimes.”
“we’re not that different, you and i.”
“set me free from my jealousy.”
“watch over as i sleep, through my darkest of dreams.”
“hold me closer than anyone before.”
“i should be thinking about nothing else when i’m with you.”
“run away as fast as you can go.”
“you told me not to be like anybody else.”
“you checked out years ago.”
“what i’d do not to worry like you.”
FOUR WALLS (THE BALLAD OF PERRY SMITH)
“i don’t know, oh, i don’t know.”
“what you have done is terrible, and now you carry it with you.”
“now we’re faced with two wrongs.”
“there’s no view from here.”
“there’s no room for you here.”
“send my regards to hell.”
“i can feel your pulse from here.”
“don’t pin it all on me!”
“i wanna waste all of my time with you.”
“my love, we can never go back.”
“let’s destroy each mistake that we made.”
“help me turn a blind eye.”
“show me distraction even for just one night.”
“it’s easier to bury my head in the sand sometimes.”
“i pray for the ground to swallow me whole.”
“i’ve got nostalgia running through me, and i don’t like it.”
“i’m pedaling backwards.”
“when we pick over the past, we glorify it.”
“i’ve drunk too much to give you what you want.”
“do you wanna be free of this?”
“i’m gonna dust you off my shoulders.”
“real life’s more fucked up than fiction.”
“i just wanna feel something, like before.”
“they lie together, oil on water.”
“her mind, it was reaching out.”
“it’s a catalogue of modern mistakes.”
“warm affection runs through every word.”
“someone else’s words in your mouth.”
“oh, never leave me out.”
“it must be so lonely, knowing what you know.”
“i can see a change in you.”
“i don’t like who i’m seeing lately.”
“maybe i’m living in the past.”
“who am i to judge? i’m the worst of all!”
“you cut through all the noise.”
“i think of you all the time.”
“you’re the anchor that i tied to my brain.”
“how many more times will we all bear witness?”
“how many more ways are there to say this?”
“it’s always you that is leading us astray.”
“can’t you feel the temperature rising?”
