☆ CELEBRITY SKIN.
prompts taken from hole’s 1998 record, celebrity skin. adjust as necessary. long ass post, so, sorry <3
track one: celebrity skin.
I’m all I wanna be.
Now you’ve really made it.
My name is “might have been,” my is “never was,” my name’s forgotten.
I’m glad I came here with your pound of flesh.
Can you stand up or will you just fall down?
You better watch out what you wish for.
Have you ever felt so used up as this?
track two: awful.
It’s your life, it’s your party.
Let’s start a fire, let’s start a riot.
They know how to break all the girls like you.
They rob the souls of girls like you.
He tastes like candy, he’s so beautiful.
track three: hit so hard.
My sweet tooth has burned a hole.
The one I love, I should destroy.
I look at him and drown.
He can’t swim, but he can float.
I saw God, just one big shiny flash.
Your secret’s safe tonight.
Set me straight tonight.
track four: malibu.
I knew love would tear you apart.
How’d you get so desperate?
Don’t lay down and die.
How are you so burnt when you’re barely on fire?
I’m gonna set you free tonight.
I knew the darkest secret of your heart.
Down by the sea is where you drown your scars.
track five: reasons to be beautiful.
I threw myself on fires for you.
Give me a reason to be beautiful.
I live my life in ruins for you.
My love burns through everything.
I fit right in your perfect skin.
Everything I am will be bought and sold.
Everything I am will turn hard and cold.
They say in the end you’ll get bitter just like them.
It's better to rise than fade away
Did you freeze? Did you weep?
track six: dying.
I’ve had it all forever, I’ve had enough.
I need to be under your skin.
Our love is quicksand, so easy to drown in.
You leave with everything I am.
You’ve come to bury me.
Now I know that love is dead.
track seven: use once & destroy.
It’s the emptiness that follows you down.
It's the awful truth you fight for your life.
I went down to rescue you.
It's the heart you used to have when it died.
I will follow you, anytime, anywhere.
When they come for you, just say you don’t care.
track eight: northern star.
I cry and no one can hear.
I’d cherish all my misery alone.
I wait, staring at the Northern Star.
I’m afraid it won’t lead me anywhere.
I cried because you were doomed.
No misery is worth you.
track nine: boys on the radio.
I know that you’re rotten to the core.
Do what you want, because I’ll do anything and I’ll take the blame.
What’s mine is yours.
I’ll learn to beg.
All the boys on the radio, they crash and burn.
I’ll be on the other side.
You can close your eyes and really sleep tonight.
I want what’s yours.
I’d give anything, and I’ll take the pain.
I wait alone for what will never come.
I know what you’re running to.
I know that you don’t love me anymore.
track ten: heaven tonight.
Here comes the sun in the form of a girl.
She’s the finest, sweetest thing in the world.
I’ll take you to heaven tonight.
I love you for what you are.
I can’t believe that I could be happy.
Here comes the kiss that I never had.
Nothing feels like this.
Here comes a storm in the form of a girl.
track eleven: playing your song.
You’re way ahead of me.
You’re drunk on apathy.
I had to tell them you were gone.
I had to tell them they were wrong.
They’re playing your song.
Don’t take it out on me.
They’ve bought and sold it all — they’ve taken it, and built a mall.
Don’t you dare blame me.
You trusted everything and they sold you out.
track twelve: petals.
Innocence was our fire.
I miss the sweet boys in the summer of their youth.
I’ll tear the petals off of you and make you tell the truth.
This world is a war.
track thirteen: best sunday dress.
I put on my best Sunday dress and I walk straight into this mess of mine.
Watch me with his sorry.
I’ve come here to confess to the wind and the rain and the glorious fame.
All the poison and pain, I take what is mine.
I’m coming undone.
