[vocalsabbatical]

“I’ve seen your frown, and it’s like looking down the barrel of a gun.”

[vocalsabbatical]

As she lays down on her bedroom floor, the chemicals that make her laugh don’t seem to be working anymore

The 1975 - She Lays Down

[vocalsabbatical]

The Outline of History

- H.G. Wells

[vocalsabbatical]

he wasn’t loud in any sense of the word,

but he commanded every room he walked into

everyone always stopped to listen to the shy boy with

curly brown hair

-jr

[vocalsabbatical]

I can’t exist within my own head,

So I insist on haunting your bed

If you could only hear what I said,

You’d see, I’m not scared

The 1975 - Haunt//Bed

[vocalsabbatical]

We’re all just the same, what a shame.

The 1975 - Paris

[vocalsabbatical]

Give your heart and soul to charity. The rest of you, the best of you, honey, belongs to me.

Hozier- NFWMB

[vocalsabbatical]

He says “us” like it means amen. He speaks like a pastor and trips over his words, his tongue struggling to meet his brain. He knows when my words are about him and he lets it all go to his head, and I don’t care because I love to watch him love himself.

Halsey

[vocalsabbatical]

it’s glowing, embers barely showing.

proof of life in the shadows

dancing on my plans.

Twenty One Pilots - Leave the City

[vocalsabbatical]

I know this whole damn city thinks it needs you, but not as much as I do.

Fall Out Boy - Last of the Real Ones

[vocalsabbatical]

She wears it like a dress; a post-traumatic mess.

The 1975 - Surrounded by Heads and Bodies

[vocalsabbatical]

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

[vocalsabbatical]

Between the spires and the rolling roofs of the white city, that orange English light casts only one singular shadow. For you are not beside, but within me.

The 1975 - Loving Someone

[vocalsabbatical]

I’m almost me again, she’s almost you.

[vocalsabbatical]

i think that we loved each other so much that we forgot to love ourselves,

and that is why it could never work

[vocalsabbatical]

the blood in our veins is nothing but chemicals,

just like the stars in the sky,

we share eternity with one another;

our chemicals never ceasing to exist

j.r.

[vocalsabbatical]

he has stars in his eyes

and galaxies in his mind

so many thoughts

violently brilliant, explosive, blinding

he’s the center and the edges

he’s everywhere and everything

all around, encompassing all there is

he’s my universe

j.r.