Somewhere in Germany, but I can't place it. Man, I hate this part of Texas. Close my eyes, fantasize, three clicks and I'm home. When I get back I'll lay around. Romanticize a quiet life, there's no place like my room. But you had to go, I know, I know, I know. Like a wave that crashed and melted on the shore. Not even the burnouts are out here anymore. And you had to go, I know, I know, I know. Out in the park, we watch the sunset, talking on a rusty swing set. After a while you got quiet and I got mean. I'm always pushing you back away from me but you come back with gravity. And when I call, you come home, a bird in your teeth. So i gotta go, I know, I know, I know. When the sirens sound, you'll hide under the floor but I'm not gonna go down with my hometown in a tornado. I'm gonna chase it. I know, I know, I know. I gotta go. I know, I know, I know. Driving out into the sun, let the ultraviolet cover me up. Went looking for a creation myth, ended up with cracked lips. Windows down, scream along to some America First rap, country song. A slaughterhouse, an outlet mall, slot machines, fear of God. Windows down, heater on. Big bolts of lightning hanging low over the coast, everyone's convinced it's a government drone or alien spaceship. Either way, we're not alone. I'll find a new place to be from. A haunted house with a picket fence to float around and ghost my friends. No, I'm not afraid to disappear. The billboard said, "the end is near." I turned around, there was nothing there. Yeah, I guess the end is here. The end is here. The end is here. The end is here. The end is here.
Started making a Nie brothers playlist and added "Haunted" by Radical Face and now I'm thinking of NHS as the singer and I may have made myself cry
oh. my. god.
first off, NIE BROS PLAYLIST. EYES. second, I am SO emo now. oh...thats heartbreaking. Your sooo right. Haunted....haunted by their own family, their own history, legacy. Blood.
this part specifically like.
"I see your face in the glass with branches growing from your mouth, you wear the moon like a halo, you wear the night like it's your coat" <-big 'NHS after NMJ's death-' energy.
"And you're always laughing but you always look afraid, I think we're haunted. Hands against my eyes, I hear you crying in your sleep." -> Nie bros after their father's death.
“I’ve been wishing that you’d prove me wrong, that you’d come clean and rue the damage done. But you’ve got no reason to.” (Down The River)
“Put your ear to my heart or set your teeth against my throat, give me something pretty to wear beneath my blood stained clothes.” (The Garden)
“The only peace I’ve ever known is the peace I made with you. I won’t move but I can’t stay here, so what the hell am I supposed to do?” (Easier)
“May the whole sky fall, may it all come down, wasted all for the truth, for the fool in her wedding gown.” (Shallow River)
c!Dream:
“Now, tell me, when you start again where will you house your skeleton? Or will they stay behind, your settlement in kind?” (Down The River)
“Abandon all your stupid dreams about the girl I could’ve been my dear. Cause in the night I know you burn with feeling I cannot return my dear, oh my dear.” (Tongues & Teeth)
“I will love you like the ashes in my cigarette box.” (Tongues & Teeth)
c!Wilbur:
“And in the morning when your standing in the shower with the water pouring, you dwell on all you ever did wrong.” (Turn Out The Lights)
“There’s a fire in my brain and I’m burning up, oh my oh my, keep running to the sink but the well is dry.” (Curses)
“I rip myself apart at the seams. I find one weak spot and start unraveling.” (Hard Sell)
“It’s a secret I keep tucked inside my chest, with this heart of mine that’s guilty, not remorseful.” (Never Love An Anchor)
“Those of us who vow never to love again, to love again, are making lairs out of honest men.” (How To Rest)
“ Don’t break the bottle, don’t waste your blessing your blessings on me.” (Safe ship harbored)
“This cradle still burns like a hole in my chest.” (The Crooked The Cradle)
“So you’ve got bad in your blood, brother your one of us.” (Caleb Trask)
“I watched the weed usurp the garden and it poisoned the rest of the crops. It would takes days of fighting stubborn roots to tear the damn thing out! So I will leave it where it’s standing and instead I will find me a match. I’ll turn it all to kindling, I’ll burn it all to ash!” (Take Me To War)
“Goddamn, I made a mess of my mind. I’m getting used to the noise and light, and light. I need an anchor, god I wanna be satisfied. ‘Cause I’m tired of feeling like a shadow in my life.” (Volta)
“I am selfish, I am broken, I am cruel, I am all the things they might have said to you.” (Never Love An Anchor)
“I’m trying to make something of myself. My better days I go by the hard sell but I feel like I’m working with barbed wire and moth wings ‘cause I can’t really get a hold of many things.” (Hard sell)
c!Tommy:
“I talk in my sleep when my demons won’t let me be. They twist the things I say, when you are far away.” (I talk in my sleep)
“I’m one deep breath away from a breakdown, my nerves are wrecked and I’m coming unwound. The world is hostile and I’m fragile and I need someone to kiss the cuts and tell me to keep trying.” (Hard Sell)
“The moon will sing a song for me I loved you like the sun, bore the shadows that you made with no light of my own.” (The Moon Will Sing)
“Darling when you’ve tired you will see there is no safe space no sanctuary. It’s all just child's play, a game of hide and seek. Don’t make it harder than it has to be.” (How To Rest)
“Hearts don’t wither, hearts don’t break but mine is tired, mine still aches.” (Can’t Have It All)
“You won’t where you left no I’m long gone (long gone). You can’t bind in the place you kept me for so long (so long)” (Can’t Have It All)
“My dream’s keep digging up the bones of my memories, discarded remnants of a former time. Now every skeleton is slappin’ it’s knees, laughin’ at the holes he left behind.” (Ancient History)
“So I’m back to pulling arms and begging and begging, for the love god don’t leave here again!” (Here I Am)
“I should be counting blessings, something is better than nothing. Isn’t it, isn’t it, isn’t it. It’s close enough to perfect what does it hurt a little? A little bit, a little bit.” (Nobody)
“ Pull apart your useless game but your song sings in my veins and I’m singing too, I can’t drown you out no matter what I do.” (Drown You Out)
c!Ranboo:
“My darling the devil knows my name!” (The Garden)
“Call it down on my head, if these sins are mine.” (Shallow River)
“I’m putting my foot down, weak knees and all, finally standing on my own after the great fall.” (Once And For All)
“I’ve given up my sight to see, I give up my air to breath.” (New Colors)
“Can anyone hear me? Can anyone hear me? The crooked are smiling they know me the best.” (The Crooked The Cradle)
“If you might then you may, there’s no reason to live out in chains.” (Caleb Trask)
“Softly a cold wind paints my face, into your arms, sell my sorry soul.” (Naked, The Night Falls)
“I Won’t be sleeping, there’s too many monsters in the backyard and I feel them creeping closer, closer, closer.” (Hollow Moon)
C!Tubbo:
“I won’t be afraid of the things I’ve wanted” (Not The Ghost)
“Instead I made a bed with apathy, my heart knew the weight, tens years worth of dust and neglect and let it be.” (The Moon Will Sing)
“They’re burning down the orchids to the soil, to the soil, to the grave. Spreading out the ashes of a love that only gave and gave.” (Icarus)
“I learned to hold it for a while and let it go” (Easier)
“Old Towns here spit fire and gasoline but all I want is solitude.” (New Colors)
“I will drown for you, sink from black to blue and let the water win.” (The Diving Bell)
“You do it better, show me how, you do it better, show me how.” (Empty Page)
c!Quackity:
“I’ve gotten good at leaning on metaphors. I’ve gotten good at stretching the truth out of shape. All these words are sweet and meaningless, you can’t trust a single thing I say.” (Metaphor)
“From your pulpit what will you preach? How to live a good long life that’s full of suffering.” (Stranglers Fig)
“Oh I know the promise you wear, well it ain’t for me.” (Shallow River)
“Once and for all, what does that mean? It’s a promise I’m making that I don’t actually believe.” (Once And For All)
“And the devil don’t know all the love I just couldn’t let go. I won’t pretend my season won’t end but I pray, when it’s done, when it’s through I’ll have something left for you.” (The Crooked The Cradle)
“If there’s a hole in the silver lining I’ll be the one, the one to find it. I take it upon myself to make sure I do.” (Hole In The Silver Lining)
“Queen of nothing wearing such a heavy crown.” (Queen Of Nothing)
“All the words I have swallowed, all the sharp things I’ve kept in my gut. I always bleeding out.” (Take Me To War)
“There are no stones at my disposal, there’s no god to award me a crown but I am always swinging at somebody I can’t take down.” (Take Me To War)
“I am a safe ship harbored, a safe ship harbored, losing all my good years to the shallow water. I ain’t proud, I ain’t proud. I wasn’t born a safe ship, something worn me down.” (Safe Ship harbored)
c!Sam:
“Bundle up darling, you made this bed now sleep in it slowly, if you can. I am not the one to live with regret.” (The Glacier House)
“I’ll never be able to close that door.” (Once And For All)
“There’s blood in the water, there’s blood in the water. The quiet are restless, the silent are still.” (The Crooked The Cradle)
“I got too far from who I am, I thought it would be easier to change.” (Daydreamer)
‘Cause we’re all easy fast asleep, sick of the buzz and beep. Sowing the seeds we reap.” (Sowing Seeds)
“But if I made my bed, did I make my demons in it?” (Hollow Moon)
“I’m afraid, is this a bunker or a shallow grave? Either way I’m left holding the shovel and rope. Digging in the dirt, finding bones, finding ghosts.” (Hollow Moon)
c!Jack:
“It’s obvious now that I’ve been forgotten. The hollow houses and vacant lots and shattered windows and splintered doors, how long have I been here all alone?” (Here I am)
“But I still don’t know shit about letting go.” (Back To The Ground)
“I promised myself I’d learn to be the one who leaves. With no more roots to tear me down it’s just a different kind of lonely.” (Here I am)
c!Clingduo:
“Like Little soldiers in the trenches, it was a march we made towards ruin and despair, but we held hands all the while.” (Little Soldiers)
“I never knew I needed you.” (Unraveling)
“Didn’t think you’d be the one to leave me clutching at my chest.” (Once And For All)
c!Crimeboys:
“Oh My brother, my brother, my brother who have you become in the wake of all that has happened here?” (Icarus)
“We walked in the dark, in the dark I never gave a single thought to where it might lead.” (The Moon Will Sing)
“On some level I always understood that these hands were clumsy not clever and I tried to do the best that I could, but try as I might I could not bring myself to hold you.” (Never Love An Anchor)
“Those of us who vow never to love again to love again are making lairs out of honest men. It not something that you put to bed, hang you head and just forget. no love don’t know how to rest, no love don’t know how to rest. It’s okay, it’s okay.” (How To Rest)
c!Tntduo:
“Tell me you’re still burning up and greedy, I want you to make me feel alive!” (Volta)
“It’s a graceless dance of epithets we learn to make someone hurt.” (Take Me To War)
