“Can you get us out of the mess we’re in?”
“Do you have to live an ocean away?”
“There are moments that the words don’t reach.”
“There is suffering to terrible to name.”
“But I don’t know where to go, and I came here all alone.”
“But we don’t get a say in what they trade away.”
“Learn to live with the unimaginable.”
“We dream of a brand new start, but we dream in the dark for the most part.”
“I swear your pride will be the death of us all.”
“I was too young and blind to see.”
“That poor man, they’re gonna eat him alive!”
“Who lives? Who dies? Who tells your story?”
“I stop wasting time on tears.”
“Answer for you accusations I lay at your feet or prepare to bleed, good man.”
“Stop crying goddammit, get up!”
“Why do you have to say goodbye?”
“It’s him or me, the world will never be the same.”
“You don’t even know what you’re asking me to confess.”
“But when you’re gone, who remembers your name?”
“Oh, I can’t wait to see you again. It’s only a matter of time.”
“They think me Macbeth. Ambition’s my folly.”
“I am not the reason no one trusts you.”
“Lord, show me how to say ‘no’ to this.”
“I don’t know how to say ‘no’ to this.”
“Come back to bed. That would be enough.”
“I’ll be back before you know I’m gone.”
“You’ve kept me from the room where it happens for the last time.”
“I couldn’t seem to die.”
“If I could spare his life, if I could trade his life for mine he’d be standing here right now.”
“But you don’t get a win unless you play in the game.”
“What if this bullet is my legacy?”
“I know there’s no replacing what we’ve lost.”
“My fellow soldiers’ll tell you I’m a terrible shot.”
“ He’s lost a lot of blood on the way over.”
“If you got something to say name a time and place.”
“In the eye of hurricane there is quiet.”
“I will choose her happiness over mine, every time.”
“Just let me stay here by your side. That would be enough.”
“To take someone’s life, that is something you can’t shake.”
“I look back on where failed and in every place I checked the only common thread has been your disrespect.”
“Everything is legal in New Jersey…”
“I never liked the quiet before.”
“I’m erasing myself from the narrative.”
“You forfeit all rights to my heart.”
“They don’t get to know what I said.
“I’m standing at her side.”
“You could never be satisfied.”
“God I hope you’re satisfied.”
“Save your strength and stay alive.”
“They will tear each other into pieces. Jesus Christ, this will be fun!”
“The world has no right to my heart.”
“Uhh, do whatever you want, I’m super dead.”
“Is he breathing? Is he going to survive this?”
“Come back home when you’re done.”
“So was your whole story a setup?”
“Though ‘virtue’ is not a word I’d apply to this situation.”
“The world has no place in our bed.”
“And I pray. That never used to happen before.”
“I thought you were mine.”
“I can almost see the the headlines your career is done.”
“Relax, have a drink with me one last time.”
“The people won’t know what we know.”
“You get love for it. You get hate for it.”
“They don’t get to know what I said.”
“Run away with us for the summer, let’s go upstate.”
“No one else was in the room where it happened.”
“And then we’ll teach them how to say goodbye.”
“And we both know what we know.”
“You sent the dogs after my scent, that’s fine.”
“I hear wailing in the streets.”
“Somebody tells me ‘you better hide’.”
“I’m burning the memories, burning the letters that might have redeemed you.”
“History obliterates in every picture it paints. It paints me in all my mistakes.”
“But I’m the one who paid for it.”
“I survived, but I paid for it.”
“Now I’m the villain in your history.”
“Will they tell my story?”