𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐓𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧 : 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐌𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐄𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬
I've been listening to the album nonstop so I wanted to put together some starters based on Vessel's lyrical talent - it's going to be a long one.
Feel free to mix and match and add context around the quotes!
Please remember to specify muse for multis and change pronouns as needed.
"I come as a blade, a sacred guardian, so keep me sharp and test my worth in blood."
"I'd turn my walls to gold to bring you home again."
"We act out of our holy duty to be constantly awake."
"You've got me in a chokehold."
"Even if it hurts me, even if I can't sleep, show me the way."
"I've got a river running right into you - I've got a blood trail, red in the blue."
"Something you say or something you do is a taste of the Divine."
"You've got my body, flesh and bone; the sky above, the Earth below."
"Raise me up again, take me past the edge - I want to see the other side."
"Oh, and my love, did I mistake you for a sign from God?"
"Are you really here to cut me off? Or maybe just to turn me on."
"'Cause these days I would be lying if I told you that I didn't wish that I could be your man."
"You won't ever have to talk about it, you'll never wanna talk about it."
"You were more than just somebody I was destined to meet."
"Never mind the death threats, parting at the door; we'd rather be six feet under than be lonely."
"You only drink the water when you think it's holy."
"You gave me nothing whatsoever but a reason to leave."
"You say you want me, but you know I'm not what you need - But I am."
"Well, my love is an animal call; cutting through the darkness, bouncing off the walls."
"These days I'm a circuit board: integrated hardware you cannot afford."
"Well, my past is a holy book - Between the pain and the way you look, I'm stuck in a time where the mountains shook."
"Oh and I am done dancing to alarm bells; no wonder my ears are still ringing."
"I am done fighting off change."
"You have become the voice in my head."
"My life is torn, my bones, they bleed - My metaphors fall short in the end."
"Are you in pain like I am?"
"Will we remain stuck in the throat of Gods? Will the pain stop if we go deeper?"
"I want to go where nobody else will ever go."
"Follow me between the jaws of fate."
"I want to have you to myself for once."
"I know what you want from me."
"You want someone to be your reflection, your bitter deception … Setting you free; so you'll take what you want and leave."
"Who made you like this?"
"Who encrypted your dark gospel in body language?"
"Tell me you guessed my future and it mapped onto your fantasy. Turn me into your mannequin and I'll turn you into my puppet queen."
"Won't you come and dance in the dark with me?"
"Show me what you are, I am desperate to know."
"Be the first to the feast, let's choke on the past."
"And I know what you want from me … You want the same as me."
"You make me wish I could disappear."
"I caught you reading by the sunrise; you wandered from the path through the silence of the hillside."
"I saw it in your eyes; cutting deeper than the scars could run."
"I want to help you but I don't know how."
"I cannot fix your wounds this time."
"I don't believe you when you tell me you are fine."
"Please don't hurt yourself again."
"Why are you never real?"
"I know that you will disappear just as I awake."
"Somewhere in the past, something was between you and I, my dear."
"No matter what I do this scar will never fade."
"I make the most of the turning tide."
"Don't wait, 'cause this could be the last time you turn up in the reveries of my mind."
"The shifting states you follow me through are unrevealed."
"Just let me go or take me with you."
"Do you pull at the chains? Or do you push into constant aching?"
"Do you wish that you loved me?"
"Is there something you give that you will never receive in return?"
"Why are you trying to live like everything is a lesson to learn?"
"Can you ever forgive yourself?"
"I would turn into a stranger in an instant if I could."
"My reflection just won't smile back at me like I know it should."
"Maybe it's not that you conceal your feelings, it's just that they just don't exist"
"Do you ever believe that we can turn into different people?"
"Is it better to just not feel?"
"I've tried so hard to fix it all, but nothing seems to help, but I cannot hope to give you what I cannot give myself."
"Smile back at me, please."
"I almost became just a stoic statue, fit for nobody."
"The vicious cycle was over the moment you smiled at me."
"Just like the rain you cast the dust into nothing, and wash out the salt from my hands."
"Will you cleanse me with pleasure?"
"I'm coiled up like the venomous serpent."
"I'm tangled in your trance and I'm certain that you've got your hooks in me."
"I know that I am what I am; the mouth of the wolf, the eyes of the lamb."
"Maybe it's all just a game."
"When I open my eyes to the future I can hear you say my name."
"I see you drifting past the fog, but no one told you where to go."
"We dive through crystal waters, perfect oceans, but no one told me not to breathe."
"My, my, those eyes like fire - I'm a winged insect, you're a funeral pyre."
"I'm a waking Hell and the Gods grow tired."
"Grow back your sharpest teeth, you know my desire."
"I need you to see me for what I have become."
"we've no idea what we've got until we lose it. And no amount of love will keep it around if we don't choose it."
"I don't know what's got its teeth in me but I'm about to bite back in anger."
"No amount of self-sought fury will bring back the glory of innocence."
"I've got a ghost in the hallway grinning and a heavy head that won't stop turning."
"Give me one last ride on a sunset sky lane."
"I can feel the walls around me closing in."
"I hope to God you don't know this feeling."
"Yet in reverse, you are all my symmetry; a parallel I would lay my life on."
"If your wings won't find you Heaven, I will bring it down like an ancient bygone."
"I need to leave this part of me behind."
"Do you still believe that nothing else matters?"
"For me: It's still the autumn leaves, these ancient canopies that we used to lay beneath."
"We tangle endlessly like lovers entwined."
"The Night Belongs to You."