Perspective's Sentence Starters; SOUR by Olivia Rodrigo (Part I)
BRUTAL
I want it to be, like, messy.
I'm so insecure.
I think that I'll die before I drink.
I'm so caught up in the news.
I'm so tired that I might quit my job, start a new life.
They'd all be so disappointed.
Who am I if not exploited?
I'm so sick of seventeen.
Where's my fucking teenage dream?
If someone tells me one more time "Enjoy your youth," I'm gonna cry.
I don't stick up for myself.
I'm anxious, and nothing can help.
I wish I'd done this before.
I wish people liked me more.
All I did was try my best.
This the kinda thanks I get?
They say these are the golden years.
I wish I could disappear.
God, it's brutal out here.
I feel like no one wants me.
I hate the way I'm perceived.
I'm a nervous wreck.
I love people I don't like.
I hate every song I write.
I'm not cool.
I'm not smart.
I can't even parallel park.
Just havin' a really good time.
Got a broken ego?
God, I don't even know where to start.
TRAITOR
I played dumb, but I always knew.
I always knew that you talked to her, maybe did even worse.
I kept quiet so I could keep you.
Ain't it funny how you ran to her the second that we called it quits?
Ain't it funny how you said you were friends?
It sure as hell don't look like it
You betrayed me.
I know that you'll never feel sorry.
You talked to her when we were together.
Loved you at your worst, but that didn't matter.
It took you two weeks to go off and date her.
Guess you didn't cheat, but you're still a traitor.
I know if you were true, there's no damn way that you could fall in love with somebody that quickly.
Ain't it funny?
Remember I brought her up and you told me I was paranoid?
I wish that you had thought this through before I went and fell in love with you.
Don't you dare forget about the way you betrayed me.
You gave me your word, but that didn't matter
Yeah, you're still a traitor.
DRIVERS LICENSE
I got my driver's license last week.
Just like we always talked about.
Today, I drove through the suburbs crying 'cause you weren't around
You're probably with that blonde girl who always made me doubt.
She's so much older than me.
She's everything I'm insecure about.
How could I ever love someone else?
I know we weren't perfect, but I've never felt this way for no one.
I just can't imagine how you could be so okay now that I'm gone.
Guess you didn't mean what you wrote in that song about me.
'Cause you said forever, now I drive alone past your street.
All my friends are tired of hearing how much I miss you.
I kinda feel sorry for them.
They'll never know you the way that I do.
I still see your face.
Can't drive past the places we used to go to.
I still fuckin' love you, babe.
I still hear your voice in the traffic.
God, I'm so blue.
1 STEP FORWARD, 3 STEPS BACK
All I did was speak normally
Somehow, I still struck a nerve.
You got me fucked up in the head.
Never doubted myself so much.
Am I pretty?
Am I fun?
I hate that I give you power over that kinda stuff
It's always one step forward and three steps back
I'm the love of your life until I make you mad.
Do you love me, want me, hate me?
I don't understand.
Maybe in some masochistic way, I kind of find it all exciting.
Which lover will I get today?
Will you walk me to the door or send me home crying?
It's back and forth.
Did I say something wrong?
Maybe this is all your fault instead.
I'd leave you, but the rollercoaster's all I've ever had.
DEJA VU
I bet she's braggin' to all her friends, sayin' you're so unique.
So when you gonna tell her that we did that, too?
She thinks it's special, but it's all reused.
That was our place, I found it first.
I made the jokes you tell to her when she's with you.
Do you get déjà vu when she’s with you?
Do you get déjà vu?
Do you call her, almost say my name?
Let's be honest, we kinda do sound the same.
I hate to think that I was just your type.
Now I bet you even tell her how you love her in between the chorus and the verse.
That was the show we talked about.
Played you the songs she's singing now when she's with you.
Don't act like we didn't do that shit, too.
You're tradin' jackets like we used to do
Everything is all reused.
Play her piano, but she doesn't know that I was the one who taught you.
A different girl now, but there's nothing new.
I know you get déjà vu
GOOD 4 U
Well, good for you, I guess you moved on really easily.
You found a new girl and it only took a couple weeks.
Remember when you said that you wanted to give me the world?
I guess that you've been workin' on yourself.
I guess that therapist I found for you, she really helped.
Now you can be a better man for your brand-new girl.
You look happy and healthy.
Not me, if you ever cared to ask
You're doin' great out there without me, baby.
God, I wish that I could do that.
I've lost my mind.
I've spent the night cryin' on the floor of my bathroom.
You're so unaffected, I really don't get it.
I guess you're gettin' everything you want.
You bought a new car and your career's really takin' off.
It's like we never even happened.
Baby, what the fuck is up with that?
It's like you never even met me.
Remember when you swore to god I was the only person who ever got you?
Well, screw that, and screw you
You will never have to hurt the way you know that I do.
Maybe I'm too emotional.
Your apathy's like a wound in salt.
Maybe you never cared at all.
