❛ you are a brick tied to me that’s dragging me down.
❛ doesn’t it feel like our time is running out?
❛ release the doves, surrender love.
❛ we are like jack-o-lanterns in july.
❛ burn everything you love, then burn the ashes.
❛ my childhood spat back out the monster that you see.
❛ in the end, everything collides.
❛ you got room for one more troubled soul?
❛ i’ll check in tomorrow if i don’t wake up dead.
❛ invite me in so we can go back and play pretend.
❛ i don’t believe a word you say but i can’t stop listening.
❛ my old aches become new again.
❛ my old friends become exes again.
❛ i know i expect too much and not enough all at once.
❛ you know, i only wanted fun and you got me all fucked up on love.
❛ anything you say can and will be held against you so ... only say my name.
❛ i’d trade all my tomorrows for just one yesterday.
❛ letting people down is my thing, baby.
❛ i don’t have the right name or the right looks but i have twice the heart.
❛ i can’t stop it when there’s chemicals keeping us together.
❛ if you ask me two’s a whole lot lonelier than one.
❛ love is just a pyramid scheme.
❛ we should have left our love in the gutter where we found it.
❛ i know you said not to call unless i’m dying -
❛ i just hope when you see me i’m not see-through.
❛ you were my picket fence.
❛ i miss missing you now and then.
❛ i will sing to you every day if it will take away the pain.
❛ sometimes before it get better, the darkness bigger.
❛ i wanna see your animal side, let it all out.
❛ we love a lot so we only lose a little.
❛ you can wear a crown but you’re no princess.
❛ we’re gonna die, it’s just a matter of time.
❛ hard times come, good times go.
❛ i’m either gone in an instant or here ‘til the bitter end.
❛ i’ll be your favourite drug, i’ll get you high.
❛ tonight, the foxes hunt the hounds.
❛ it’s all over now before it has begun and we’ve already won.
❛ come on. make it easy. say i never mattered.
❛ remember me as i was not as i am.
❛ we’re all fighting growing old.
❛ you need to lower your standards ‘cause it’s never getting any better than this.
❛ i cried tears you’ll never see. so fuck you, you can go cry me an ocean.
❛ you are what you love and not who loves you.
❛ how’d it get to be only me? like i’m the last damn kid still kicking that still believes.
❛ i need more dreams and less life.
❛ i need that dark in a little more light.
‘FALL OUT BOY’S ‘ FOLIE A DEUX ’ SENTENCE STARTERS
FEEL FREE TO CHANGE PRONOUNS, ETC.
DISLOYAL ORDER OF WATER BUFFALOES
‘ i’m coming apart at the seams ’
‘ i’m pitching myself for leads in other people’s dreams. ’
‘ there’s a hole where something was. ’
‘ don’t worry. ’
‘ you’ll never remember. your head is far too blurry. ’
‘ restrain that man. ’
‘ he needs his head put through a cat scan. ’
‘ i’m undeniable. ’
‘ i’m certifiable. ’
‘ i’m a loose bolt of a complete machine. ’
‘ what a match ! i’m half-doomed and you’re semi-sweet. ’
‘ so boycott love , detox just to retox . ’
‘ and i’d promise you anything for another shot at life. ’
‘ perfect boys with their perfect lives. nobody wants to hear you sing about tragedy. ’
‘ nobody wants to hear you sing about tragedy. ’
‘ little girl, you got me staring odd. ’
I DON’T CARE
‘ say my name and his in the same breath. i dare you to say they taste the same. ’
‘ those friends, they don’t love you. they just love the hotel suites. ’
‘ i don’t care what you think as long as it’s about me. ’
‘ the best of us can find happiness in misery. ’
‘ i’m not a chance, but a heat wave in your pants. ’
‘ free love on the streets, but in the alley it ain’t that cheap. ’
SHE’S MY WINONA
‘ life’s just a pace-car on death, only less diligent, and when the two collide it’s no coincidence. ’
‘ the only thing suicidal here is the doors. ’
‘ we had a good run, even i have to admit. ’
‘ hell or glory: i don’t want anything inbetween. ’
‘ daddy said: you gotta show the world the thunder. ’
‘ we didn’t come to compete. ’
‘ this is a demonstration. ’
‘ they always bring up how you’ve changed. i’m never the same person when i go to sleep as when i wake up. ’
AMERICA’S SUITEHEARTS
‘ you could have knocked me out with a feather. ’
‘ i know you’ve heard this all before. ’
‘ we’re just hell’s neighbors. ’
‘ why won’t the world revolve around me? ’
‘ in my dreams trees grow all over the streets. ’
‘ i don’t know much about classic cars. ’
‘ i don’t know much about classic cars, but i’ve got a lot of friends stuck on classic coke. ’
‘ let’s hear it for america’s suitehearts! ’
‘ i must confess: i’m in love with my own sins. ’
‘ you can bow and pretend that you don’t know you’re a legend. ’
HEADFIRST SLIDE INTO COOPERSTOWN ON A BAD BET
‘ mr. sandman, showing his beam. ’
‘ when he walks into a room the walls lean in to listen. ’
‘ head like a steel trap — wish i didn’t. ’
‘ i don’t want to be a footnote in someone else’s happiness. ’
‘ does your husband know the way that the sunshine gleams from your wedding band? ’
‘ i will never end up like him . ’
‘ behind my back, i already am. ’
‘ keep a calendar, this way you will always know the last time you came through. ’
‘ oh, darling, i know what you’re going through. ’
‘ it’s a sign. ’
‘ what if you peaked early? ’
‘ does he know the way i worship our love? ’
THE (SHIPPED) GOLD STANDARD
‘ sometimes i want to quit this all and become an accountant. but i’m no good at math, and besides, the dollar is down. ’
‘ i’m no good at math. ’
‘ plant palm trees on lake michigan before it gets cold. ’
‘ i gotta feel the wind chill again before i get old. ’
‘ i wanna scream “i love you” from the top of my lungs, but i’m afraid that someone else might here me. ’
‘ you can only blame your problems on the world for so long. ’
‘ you can only blame your problems on the world for so long before it all becomes the same old song. ’
‘ as soon as we hit the hospital, i know we’re gonna leave this town. ’
‘ we’re gonna get new passports and get out now. ’
‘ all the yes men said “no comment.” ‘
‘ my dad caught me a horseshoe crab, and i asked him if throwing it back into the sea would bring our luck back. ’
‘ tell that boy i’ll leave you alone. ’
‘ like a stove, i’ll turn my love down. ’
(COFFEE’S FOR CLOSERS)
‘ i can’t explain a thing. ’
‘ i want everything to stay the same. ’
‘ time doesn’t care about anyone or anything. ’
‘ baby, when they made me, they broke the mold. ’
‘ girls/boys used to follow me around, but then i got cold. ’
‘ i will never believe in anything again. ’
‘ though change will come, i will never believe in anything again. ’
‘ we will never believe again. ’
‘ i’m a mascot for what you’ve become. ’
‘ i love the mayhem more than the love. ’
WHAT A CATCH, DONNIE
‘ i’ve got troubled thoughts. ’
‘ i’ve got troubled thoughts and the self-esteem to match — what a catch. ’
‘ what a catch. ’
‘ you’ll never catch us, so just let me be. ’
‘ i still want you back. ’
‘ all i can think of is the way i’m the one who charmed the one who gave up on you. ’
‘ they say the captain goes down with the ship. so when the world ends, will god go down with it? ’
‘ where’s your boy tonight? ’
‘ i hope he is a gentleman. ’
‘ maybe he won’t find out what i know. ’
‘ you were the last good thing about this part of town. ’
‘ we’re going down in an earlier round. ’
‘ sugar, we’re going down swinging. ’
‘ i’ll be your number one with a bullet — a loaded god complex, cock it and pull it. ’
‘ we’re falling apart to halftime, and these are the lives you love to lead. ’
‘ this is the way they’d love if they knew how misery loved me. ’
‘ one night, and one more time. ’
‘ thanks for the memories, even though they weren’t so great. ’
‘ he tastes like you, only sweeter. ’
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‘ if home is where the heart is, then we’re all just fucked. ’
‘ i can’t remember. ’
‘ i want it so bad, i’d shoot sunshine into my veins. ’
‘ it’s kind of funny, the way we’re wearing anchors on our shirts when being anchored aboard just feels like a curse. ’
‘ my mind is a safe, and if i keep it, then we all get rich, ’
‘ my body is an orphanage: we take everyone in. ’
‘ we’re doing lines of dust and sweat off of last night’s stage. ’
‘ the milligrams in my head, burning tobacco in the wind, chasing the direction you went. ’
‘ you’re a bottled star — the planets align, you’re just like mars. you shine in the sky. ’
‘ you shine in the sky. ’
‘ are all the good times getting gone? ’
‘ i’ve got a lot of friends who are stars, but some are just black holes. ’
TIFFANY BLEWS
‘ i’m not a crybaby. ’
‘ i’m not a crybaby. i’m the crybaby. ’
‘ hate me, baby. ’
‘ maybe i’m a piece of art. ’
‘ my friends all lie and say they only want the best wishes for me. ’
‘ baby, you’re classic — like a little black dress. ’
‘ you’re a faded moon stuck on a little hot mess. ’
‘ you’re stuck on a little hot mess. ’
‘ you’ll be faded soon. ’
‘ i can make your heart slow. ’
‘ i can feel the weather in my bones — wish hard enough, i can turn it to what i like. ’
‘ your pupils are big — they’re rolling like dice. ’
‘ i’m not the boy/girl i was. ’
‘ the boy/girl i am is just venting. ’
‘ you held me down in this starless city. ’
W.A.M.S.
‘ i’m a young one stuck in the thoughts of an old one’s head. ’
‘ when all the others were just stirring awake, i’m trying to trick myself to fall asleep again. ’
‘ my head’s in heaven, my soles are in hell — let’s meet in the purgatory of my hips and get well. ’
‘ hurry, hurry. ’
‘ you put my head in such a flurry. ’
‘ you put my head in such a flurry — what makes you so special? ’
‘ what makes you so special. ’
‘ i’m going to leave you. ’
‘ i’m going to leave you. i’m going to teach you how we’re all alone. ’
‘ it’s your club, so let me in. ’
‘ if we don’t take the medication, we won’t sleep for days. ’
‘ if we pray to the lord, does he sing on a stage? ’
‘ we waste it all in the back of a long dark car. ’
‘ i’m a sunshine machine — i want to get stuck and be golden in your memory. ’
20 DOLLAR NOSE BLEED
‘ have you ever wanted to disappear? ’
‘ who will i be when i wake up next to a stranger? ’
‘ please take me back. ’
‘ i’m a stray dog, sick. ’
‘ please let me in. ’
‘ singing vows before we exchange smoke rings. ’
‘ give me a pen. ’
‘ call me mister benzedrine, but don’t let the doctor in — i want to blow off steam. ’
‘ i wanna blow off steam. ’
‘ it feels like fourteen carats, but no clarity when i look at the man who would be king. ’
‘ only one book really matters. the rest of the proof is on the television. ’
‘ it’s not me, it’s you. actually, it’s the taxidermy of you and me. ’
‘ untie the balloons from around my neck and ground me. ’
‘ always thought i’d float away and never come back. ’
‘ you know me. ’
‘ i like being all alone. ’
‘ i like being all alone and keeping you all alone. ’
‘ you say you’re not listening, and i said i’m wishing. ’
WEST COAST SMOKER
‘ don’t feel bad for the suicidal cats — got to kill themselves nine times before they get it right. ’
‘ the p.a. system keeps my heart beating tonight. ’
‘ i’m a nervous wreck. ’
‘ i’m a nervous wreck, the drugs just make me reset. ’
‘ knock once for the father, twice for the son, three times for the holy ghost. ’
‘ come on in, the water’s warm. ’
‘ come on like a sugar cube, but with a kick to the head. ’
‘ it’s like putting wings on lead. ’
‘ your eyes are blocking my starlight. ’
‘ i’m the last of my kind, and that’s all that should matter to you. ’
‘ i got my degree in the gutter, and my heart broken in the dorms of the ivy league. ’
