36 questions (a podcast musical) → lyrics starters
slightly edited in some cases to work for rp purposes.
feel free to change phrasing or pronouns to fit your muse(s)!
❝ You share a lot in common with my husband. ❞
❝ I feel like I know you, like we’ve met before. ❞
❝ I know you’re there. I know you’re listening. ❞
❝ You deserve to get to know the person you’re trying your damnedest to let go. ❞
❝ You have a thousand reasons not to trust whoever I am. ❞
❝ For whatever it’s worth, I also have no clue as to who I actually am. ❞
❝ I won’t leave ‘til you open up the door. ❞
❝ There are mosquitoes everywhere. I think they’re eating me alive. ❞
❝ I came out here for one thing and that little bitty one thing was to forget about you. ❞
❝ I guess I’ve learned something: that there’s never really one thing, 'cause pretty quickly one thing evolves into two, or three, or more . ❞
❝ There it is, black mold. Killing us slowly each night. ❞
❝ Sometimes to solve a problem you follow it back to the start. ❞
❝ Apparently, cement can get old?! ❞
❝ In trying to fix one thing, I made everything worse. ❞
❝ I think maybe you’re obsessing over things you can control, hoping to control your feelings for… ❞
❝ Just… just… just stop moving towards me. Just stay on your side of the room. ❞
❝ After tonight, you’ll never hear from me again. If that’s what you want. ❞
❝ We’ll do this one thing. It could be the last thing. ❞
❝ There is something to the ritual of setting some old shit on fire… ❞
❝ All I want right now is the same thing I wanted two weeks ago. The truth. Why did you lie to me? ❞
❝ The person who I was on the day you and I met was deeply ashamed of who she had become. So deeply ashamed of what she’d done. ❞
❝ I don’t expect for you to understand perfectly. ❞
❝ Given the choice of anyone in the world the only person I’d want over for dinner is you. ❞
❝ Who are you? And why were you living a lie? ❞
❝ To live in a lie for so long, to string your husband along. How in the hell could you think that was okay? ❞
❝ In a world full of people who all haven’t hurt me the way that you hurt me, the only person I’d want over for dinner is you. ❞
❝ For the record, this is self-destructive. ❞
❝ This is self-destructive, I’m aware of that. ❞
❝ I’ve been picturing her body draped over the sofa wearing nothing but her hat. ❞
❝ Of course I have sympathy for the pathological liar who did this to me. ❞
❝ I admit I wish I could touch her. ❞
❝ I can’t imagine all the horrible stuff you’ve heard about me. Well, it’s all true. ❞
❝ I did not expect this. I really thought that it would be a harder sell. ❞
❝ I guess I’m still afraid that I might lie. ❞
❝ Of I was given the choice of telling him the truth or sticking knives into my eyes, I’d pick the knives. ❞
❝ If he didn’t love me anymore then why the hell did he open the front door? ❞
❝ There’s a good chance that this wine is terrible. ❞
❝ My whole life was a lie. ❞
❝ Would you like to be famous? In what way? ❞
❝ Here’s 36 reasons why you and I cannot be healthy for each other. ❞
❝ When I was with you I could be myself. ❞
❝ When I was with you I didn’t feel lost, confused or frightened or scared to be who I am. ❞
❝ We both are not totally straight. ❞
❝ When I was with you I was real. ❞
❝ You said that tomorrow could be the perfect day if we let it be. ❞
❝ When was the last time you sang to yourself? To someone else? ❞
❝ If you were able to live to the age of 90 and retain either the mind or body of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life, which would you want? ❞
❝ Do you have a secret hunch about how you will die? ❞
❝ I’m only afraid of dying alone. ❞
❝ Name 3 things you and your partner appear to have in common. ❞
❝ We both become monsters when we lose. ❞
❝ We both check Twitter for our news. ❞
❝ We both recycle purely out of guilt. ❞
❝ I tried so hard to separate who you are from who you were. ❞
❝ It’s our word against his. ❞
❝ I hid screw-ups from my father, made up school awards to please my mom. ❞
❝ I was told to keep their secrets and in turn they’d keep mine. ❞
❝ Three times I nearly wrecked my life. ❞
❝ Somebody was paid to make it go away. ❞
❝ An inconvenient truth can be easily erased. ❞
❝ I developed some fun habits. Put my white blood cells to work. ❞
❝ To level out, I’d popped some downers. ❞
❝ I suddenly became aware I couldn’t keep my head above water. ❞
❝ I saw my parents hearing the news: “Your only daughter drowned today”. I thought about what they might say. ❞
❝ She’s always been so goddamned independent. The years go by and now we barely see her. ❞
❝ We loved her so much she felt like our child. ❞
❝ This isn’t my dog, actually. It’s my friend’s dog, Sheila. I’m taking care of her while he’s away. She’s on a lot of medication. ❞
❝ It felt like my life, but a better version. ❞
❝ With you in my life, I was a better person. ❞
❝ For the first time I was in love. ❞
❝ I loved who I was with you. ❞
❝ My parents finally tracked me down after years of jumping from town to town. ❞
❝ They say before you die, your whole life flashes before your very eyes. Well, it didn’t the first time. ❞
❝ I tried to cling to the life I’d made together with you. ❞
❝ I wanted to keep my life, but the better version. ❞
❝ I memorized your voice and how you say goodbye. But you never said goodbye. ❞
❝ I have to leave you behind. I know that sounds harsh but that’s the reality. ❞
❝ I wanted to let you in, swallow your pain, because that’s what I always do. ❞
❝ Unlike you I keep my word. ❞
❝ You like to live your life blurring the lines, bending the rules to make yourself look better. ❞
❝ I’d give anything to wake up with you next to me. ❞
❝ Why do I always give in? That is on me to change. ❞
❝ I can’t do this to myself again. I deserve someone who accepts reality. ❞
❝ I can’t imagine rebuilding my life with you – constantly on the edge of what I know is true. And you would string me along like you always do, knowing I will never let go. ❞
❝ No one wants to let go. ❞
❝ Only you can be the one to say “I’m done” and walk away. ❞
❝ I’m leaving now. I’m putting one foot in front of the other now. ❞
❝ I deserve to let you go and build a better version on my own. ❞
❝ I feel better already or at least a bit lighter, just by deciding I left you behind. ❞
❝ There’s room in my head now that getting you back isn’t taking up every inch of my mind. ❞
❝ It’s strange to imagine my everyday without you. ❞
❝ If you’re listening, I love you. I think I always will. ❞
❝ I thought it was over, thought I was moving forward. ❞
❝ I was a coward and I ran away again, that wasn’t right. ❞
❝ I can’t afford to be a coward anymore. ❞
❝ Another part of adulting is admitting when you’re wrong. ❞
❝ For ___ years/months/weeks I tried to tell myself stay strong as the guilty of what I’d done destroyed my mental health. ❞
❝ You were right to give me distance. ❞
❝ I don’t expect a response from you. In fact, it’s probably best you don’t. ❞
❝ I’m not looking for forgiveness. ❞
❝ I’m only giving you what you are owed. ❞
❝ All that’s left now is to hit “send” and the weight of the choice will be gone. ❞
❝ Is it weird that I am writing my ex-wife out of the blue? ❞
❝ This love affair ends with a 3-page PDF in 2017. How absurd . ❞
❝ Here’s to never looking back. ❞
❝ Okay, it’s over… Oh my God, it’s really over . ❞
❝ The truth is hard to explain. ❞
❝ The truth can shift and change. ❞
❝ The truth is all about you and your honest point of view. ❞
❝ What’s true for you doesn’t have to be true forever. ❞
❝ Sometimes the truth isn’t always for the better. ❞
❝ The truth is, the truth doesn’t exist in black and white. And sometimes two sides can both be right. ❞
❝ The truth is that you will never really know the truth. ❞
