✧ GO FARTHER IN LIGHTNESS STARTERS // PART 2
taken from the gang of youths’ album of the same name. feel free to adapt as you wish.
❝ you're scaring us and all of us, some of us love you. it's not much but there's proof. ❞
❝ remember your virtue: redemption lies plainly in truth. ❞
❝ the self is not so weightless, nor whole and unbroken. ❞
❝ remember the pact of our youth. ❞
❝ where you go, I'm going, so jump and I'm jumping, since there is no me without you. ❞
❝ hurt and grieve but don't suffer alone. engage with the pain as a motive. ❞
❝ today of all days, see how the most dangerous thing is to love, how you will heal and you'll rise above. ❞
❝ you are absent of cause or excuse. ❞
❝ you crave the applause yet hate the attention— then miss it, your act is a ruse. ❞
❝ it's a pointless resistance for you. ❞
❝ [ name ], just put down the bottle. don't listen to what you've consumed. ❞
❝ and there may not be meaning, so find one and seize it. ❞
❝ feel your breath course frankly below and see life as a worthy opponent. ❞
❝ you want the acclaim, the mother of mothers, more poignant than fame or the taste of another. ❞
❝ you will not be more than a rat in the gutter. ❞
❝ you asked for my counsel, I gave you my thoughts. ❞
❝ can you hear me, [ name ] ? I'm talking to you ! ❞
❝ throw yourself into the unknown with pace and a fury defiant. clothe yourself in beauty untold and see life as a means to a triumph. ❞
❝ you'll rise above, crowned by an overture bold and beyond. ❞
❝ ah, it's more courageous to overcome. ❞
❝ I thought I had a real understanding then of loss but I didn't know a thing 'til you were gone. ❞
❝ I used to wanna be important, now I just wanna be alive and without fear. ❞
❝ it's okay to feel unbelievably lost. ❞
❝ you got to persevere. ❞
❝ I live hard 'cause I am scared that I won't mean anything. ❞
❝ you want someone to want you for who you are. ❞
❝ it's no secret that with matters of the heart, I'm irrational and rarely ever start. ❞
❝ the world's dark and often inhumane. ❞
❝ we all decided the best way to fight it was drink wine, dance here and pray and make love that lasts with a vengeance. ❞
❝ you can stay afraid, or slit the throat of fear and be brave. ❞
❝ you wanted to fight for a cause— then go out and fall in love ! ❞
❝ don't stop believing in truth and grace in the grievance. ❞
❝ you give me a good reason to be heartsick again. to be here, to be strong. ❞
❝ I've been losing my way in the weirdest of moments and the stupidest of ways. ❞
❝ there will be no years of silence in the shadow of regret. I won't let it so betray me, though my soul got used to it. ❞
❝ I will look at love as more than just an instrument of pain. ❞
❝ I will not spend the years depleted of my willingness to try. it won't hurt this way forever, it ain't worth the overtime. ❞
❝ lay me down and kiss me deeply, show me everything I missed. ❞
❝ I let bad love betray me once. ❞
❝ I wanna be loved, I wanna be whole again. ❞
❝ and I just ask you to be patient if you'll have me still. ❞
❝ it's just a feeling of distance akin to a feeling of loss of love. ❞
❝ I am grieving the loss of myself with frightening malaise. ❞
❝ just stand in the darkness and laugh with your heel on its throat. ❞
❝ not everything means something, honey: so say the unsayable, say the most human of things. ❞
❝ if everything is temporary I will bear the unbearable, terrible triteness of being. ❞
❝ I'm not so assured nor unusually strong or outstandingly brave. ❞
❝ won't you fear me tonight ? ❞
❝ there's nothing that holy in loving like drunk kids love. ❞
❝ let's drink the best wine now, while we're strong and we are proud. ❞
❝ it's weird and unnerving, forsaking my old life now, 'cause this is a burden I can't seem to do without. ❞
❝ I wanna be nearer, I wanna be close behind. ❞
❝ our time is short. ❞
❝ I could almost take a whole life to disclose how I feel about the now. ❞
❝ but we've will to carry on, transcend with our scars and contusions. ❞
❝ I know how lame it sounds, but I'm glad I became more human. ❞
❝ do not let this one end before you emerge as the winner. ❞
❝ let me love with a vengeance. ❞
❝ you wanna feel absolved tonight. ❞
❝ it's okay not to be so alright. but don't be alone. ❞
❝ say what you want with blood and bone and stick a finger in their faces when they say you're overblown ! ❞