Rolling Up the Welcome Mat (normal and For Good) by Kelsea Ballerini Sentence Starters
Change the pronouns and tense as needed for your verses.
"It's 7 a.m. and I'm on a mountain with a view"
"I'm the only one, alone, at a table meant for two"
"I should be missing you"
"The pictures look pretty, at least they do on your Instagram"
"We say good morning, then goodnight, I wonder if you even know where I am"
"I'm wearing the ring still, but I think I'm lying"
"I realize you loved me much more at twenty-three"
"I think that this is when it's over for me"
"I can't believe I'm a few months out from twenty-nine"
"I can't handle another year of you and I just being fine"
"I've shared all my secrets, and I've paid for all my crimes"
"Our stars ain't falling back into line"
"I think that this is when I cut the ties"
"I think that is when I set myself free"
"One day you'll ask, "When was it over for you?""
"I'm takin' the ring off, I'm finally crying"
"But you never took that last flight to see me"
"Looks like our ending ain't ending happily"
"I don't think I lied when I said I wanted that life"
"Maybe I was too young to understand what I wanted to begin with"
"Rode off in a car that said, "Just Married""
"I wasn't made for fixing a plate or keeping our problems buried"
"I wasn't strong enough to keep on with all of the weight that I carried"
"It was love then it was just, married"
"Tired of asking when I'll see you next"
"I'm too mad to fight, so I stare and cry at the picture of you and me wearing white"
"Dammit, I wish I wasn't this ready to undo I do"
"We moved to a place with a view off of 8th Avenue after we said I do"
"The interstate was so loud, there was a lot it had to drown out"
"We played the part five nights, but we were never there on the weekend"
"We got along real nice, but when I left town, did you hate me?"
"I changed the second we were moving out"
"I guess wrong can look all right when you're playing home in a penthouse", baby"
"I thought that would make it all better, and maybe forever wouldn't feel like the walls closing in"
"How does that even make sense? Now that I think about it, it never did"
"You changed the second we were moving out"
"It hurts putting shit in a box and now we don't talk"
"It stings rolling up the welcome mat knowing you got half"
"I kissed someone new last night"
"Now I don't care where you're sleeping, baby"
"Now I don't know where you're sleeping, baby"
"We got along real nice, until I wanted out, now I know you hate me"
"We changed the second we were moving out"
"I just bought the house that we saw, you said it was wrong but I wanted it all along"
"There's a thin line between love and hate"
"It was love, but it wasn't fate"
"So which side are you gonna take now?"
"The rumors going 'round, but the truth is kinda nuanced"
"Ain't it like this town to only criticize a woman"
"Hindsight says I was right"
"Must've hit a nerve, damn, people got offended"
"I wonder what we'll both say when we see each other 'round town"
"We said we'd handle this the right way"
"I guess we've done each other wrong now"
"I told you mine, so when location died, what was your secret?"
"You collected bones, but I buried the bodies"
"I'm blowing up my life, but I'm standing by the crater"
"You can love her, you can hate her"
"Forever's just the interlude"
"Good thing I'm good alone 'cause that's how I'll sign the papers"
"Were you on the other line or driving in your car?"
"Was there nothing ever wrong 'cause you were always right?"
"Tell me, were you blindsided, or were you just blind?"
"Now you're saying that you're lost, and that's lost on me"
"I know the truth is hard to hear, but it wasn't hard to find"
"We had to get drunk to ever really talk"
"I told you what I needed, didn't have to read my mind"
"Tell me, when did I start looking like the enemy?"
"I know the truth is hard to hear, you've got yours, and I've got mine"
"Now you're singing it loud on the radio, you couldn't say it to my face. You would've searched the whole world over? Yeah, sure, okay"
"Now you're singing it loud on the radio like you're the only heart that breaks. You would've searched the whole world over? Yeah, sure, okay"
"I hope you're spending Christmas with your family"
"I hope you're feeling happier than you've ever been"
"I hope I never leave me again"
"Staying only made me get real good at pretend"
"I hope I remember all the pieces of who I was that I lost on the way"
"I hope I learn to love myself like I loved you then"
"I hope when I see you that you smile"
"I hope that you find somebody new"
"They say to get out with the old, you get in with the new"
"I haven't been on a date since I was twenty-two"
"I'm scared of looking stupid"
"Said I'm ready, now I gotta prove it"
"I've got a little black dress, I wanna use it and maybe lose it on a floor that ain't mine"
"I talk a big game that I'm scared of losing"
"Everything I knew about love is ruined"
"I know who I am but what the fuck do I do?"
"Like is it wrong to take a shot?"