the mountain goats : transcendental youth album … sentence starters
“I don’t have to be afraid.”
“I don’t want to be afraid.”
“Can’t quite catch ‘em all.”
“I’m still here, but all is lost.”
“Climb limits past the limits.”
“And stay alive. Just stay alive.”
“Learn some secrets, never tell.”
“Days like dominos, all in a line.”
“Keep one step ahead of enemies.”
“I am happy where the vermin play.”
“Everybody trying to make his mark.”
“I get pretty sentimental, now and then.”
“Stayed up late and wrecked this place.”
“Someone needs to clean up this mess.”
“Nerves strung so high, I am a mandolin.”
“You can’t judge us. You’re not the judge.”
“Remember soaring higher than a cloud?”
“I think I’ll stay here, ‘til I feel whole, again.”
“Leave a little mark on something, maybe.”
“Sad and angry, can’t learn how to behave.”
“Feel so hungry, I’ll probably pass out soon.”
“Use too much and make a great big mess.”
“Locked up in myself, never gonna get free.”
“My spirit sings loud and clear, even in here.”
“Feel the storm every night, hope it passes by.”
“Don’t hurt anybody on your way up to the light.”
“Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.”
“I don’t even bother trying to read them anymore.”
“I saw the light of my spirit descend the other day.”
“Probably never see her, again, in this life, I guess.”
“Do every stupid thing to try to drive the dark away.”
“And there’s nobody there to catch us when we fall.”
“Stay in the game. Just try to play through the pain.”
“I hide down in my corner, because I like my corner.”
“Live like an outlaw, clutching gold coins in his claw.”
“Hard to know who might or might not be your friend.”
“This is a dream, though… It’s never gonna come true.”
“Spent the wet night tracking visions through the pines.”
“I’ll be reborn someday, someday, if I wait long enough.”
“But I see the light that much clearer every time I return.”
“Let people call you crazy for the choices that you make.”
“Foretell worse things than such frightful nights as these.”
“Make up magic spells; we wear them like protective shells.”
“Some things you do just to see how bad they’ll make you feel.”
“And some no-one from the future remembers that you’re gone.”
“Sing. Sing high while the fire climbs. Sing one for the old times.”
“Find where the heat’s unbearable and stay there if you have to.”
“And you can’t tell me what my spirit tells me isn’t true, can you?“
“Hold my hopes underwater. Stand there and watch them drown.”
“Dream of maybe waking up someday and wanting you less than I do.”
“But I am just a broken machine, and I do things that I don’t really mean.”
“Some people crash two or three times, and then learn from their mistakes.”
“Can’t learn how to behave. Still won’t know how in the darkness of the grave.”
“In old movies, people scream, choking on their fists when they see shadows like these.”
“Nothing in the shadows but the shadow hands, reaching out to sad, young, frightened men.”
“The loneliest people in the whole, wide world are the ones you’re never going to see, again.”
“Every dream’s a good dream; even awful dreams are good dreams if you’re doing it right.”
“People might laugh at your tattoos. When they do, get new ones in completely garish hues.”
“It seems like everyone’s cut me free and left me to the tender cares of my faceless enemy.”
“Play with matches if you think you need to play with matches. Seek out the hidden places where the fire burns hot and bright.”