fun. -- Aim and Ignite Writing Prompts
Be Calm
“I’ve reclaimed the use of my imagination.”
“I always knew you’d be the one to understand me.”
“I guess that’s what took so long to get things right.”
“Why haven’t you been there for me this time? Can’t you see I’m losing my mind?”
“This time, I think it’s for real, I can see...”
“I close my eyes, I tell myself to breathe and.... be calm.”
“I know you feel like you are breaking down.”
“I’m scared that everyone is out to get me.”
“I always see you looking out your window.”
“After all, you lost your band, you lost your mom.”
“I’m saddled with bad luck that came.”
“I know that it gets so hard sometimes.”
“Take it from me; I’ve been there a thousand times.”
“I don’t remember much that night.”
“You hate your pulse ‘cause it still thinks you’re alive.”
Benson Hedges:
“When do you come out to play?”
“Cause if the Lord is gonna find me, he better start looking today.”
“I spent the weekend setting traps in the road.”
“I should have been cutting out my eyelids.”
“Now at least the birds are singing to me.”
“But what they’re trying to say, I don’t know.”
“I think they come from the cold.”
“You stayed the same.”
“So I drove until we both broke down.”
“I’ve come to find that I can’t be defined.”
“So I can rise with the river.”
“We all float before we sink.”
“I will set sail for the streets.”
“I want to be forgotten.”
“I don’t care to be forgiven.”
“I receive a call from my family and what they started to say brought me home.”
“They think I’m beautiful.”
All the Pretty Girls
“I call your name.”
“Cross my fingers, uncross the others.”
“I don’t think straight with nothing to prove.”
“Let it be, and come to me with the look in your eyes.”
“You break and take all the words from my mouth.”
“So I call you out just to feel a little bit better about myself.”
“I’ve never heard the tune.”
“I just the band ‘cause they remind me of you.”
“Every single night ends up the same.”
“I don’t say much at all, but I bring up your name.”
“I think it’s striking me out.”
“This one doesn’t wanna admit she’s falling in love.”
“C’mon, what’s a boy to do when all the pretty girls can’t measure up to you.”
“I don’t understand your reasons.”
“Please just stay over the weekend.”
“You can’t take all those things; they define you and me.”
“You’re all that I need.”
“Please don’t make me face my generation alone.”
I Wanna Be the One
“Were you named for the river that surrounds?”
All the muscles in my mouth never smiled or said anything profound until the day she handed you to me.”
“I wanna be the one to put it in a song.”
“She brings me a cake; we celebrate: I have arrived.”
“For all you’ve ever lost, and all you’ve overcome, I wanna be the one to put it in a song.”
“Clever comes in truth when truth begets the past.”
“It sends its call out to the moon.”
“The moon can see the beauty that surrounds your heart as it pounds.”
“It starts the beat, inspiring me until I make the sound.”
At Least I’m Not As Sad (As I Used to Be)
“Have you ever wondered about our old nu-metal friends and what became of them? Turns out I saw them a couple of days ago.”
“They were laughin' and drinkin' and smokin’ and singin’.”
“At least I’m not as sad as I used to be.”
“It’s been a while, are you gonna sing?”
“You should’ve seen me a couple of years ago.”
“Can you count all the loves that didn’t last?”
“It’s such a gas when you bring up the past.”
“I don’t want no savior, baby. I just wanna let it out.”
“Youth’s taken over by rock and roll.”
“So I left.”
“That is it; that’s my life. Nothing is sacred.”
“I don't keep friends, I keep acquainted.”
“I’m not a prophet, but I’m here to profit.”
“I’m gone!”
“I don’t fall in love; I just fake it.”
Light a roman Candle With Me
“You can wear your sandals.”
“I’ll pour you just one cup of tea.”
“You can go and rest.”
“You haven’t seen my best.”
“Just spend an evening with me.”
“Or we could stay up and talk until three.”
“I will think it’s magic, and I’ll hope you agree.”
“At least we would know that the sparks didn’t glow.”
“But we out it to ourselves to try.”
“Give me a chance!”
“It’s not often that I understand.”
“I’m looking for common ground.”
“Your heart isn’t breaking.”
Walking the Dog
“The night is dead.”
“You wanted better love when it was sleeping in your bedroom.”
“It’s not all skin and bones.”
“Hold on, stay on my side, don’t go.”
“Come on, love.”
“I will not let you go.”
“Now I’m walking alone.”
“Well hearts do break...”
“These days I’m left to howl in tune.”
“I might have been faking it.”
“I think I really cried just once.”
“I guess I’ll never know.”
“All the days were not wasted.”
Barlights
“Never in all my life have I seen eyes as empty as these streets of my city.”
“Go, leave it all behind.”
“I don't need to be reminded a change is gonna come.”
“I can feel it on the tip of your tongue.”
“I feel alive.”
“We could use some sleep.”
“I’ll bet I’m coming home alone tonight.”
“I don’t need to be reminded this was how it was.”
“I’ve had too much.”
“Now all the barlights are blinking in time.”
“One of us sings, one of us drinks, and one of us has nothing at all.”
“He calls us all sheep.”
“I’m the Little Bo Peep of the bunch.”
“I take their tales, and I’m ready to go.”
“He swears he’s gotta take a call.”
“Man, I get scared he’s gonna leave us too soon.”
“We never got it right.”
“So we settled for the center of time.”
“All the rich white kids are looking for a fight.”
“Got the blond one staring me down.”
“I really wanna take a swing.”
“But he died.”
“Me, I’m gonna live forever.”
“It’s taunting the pavement.”
“And for the first time, in a long time, I feel alive.”
The Gambler
“Slow down; we’ve got time left to be lazy.”
“All the kids have bloomed from babies into flowers in our eyes.”
We’ve got fifty good years to spend out in the garden.”
“I don’t care to beg your pardon.”
“We should live until we die.”
“Then you turned, put out your hand, and you asked me to dance.”
“I knew nothing of romance, but it was love at second sight.”
“I swear when i grow up, I won’t just buy you a rose.”
“I will not leave ‘till it’s our time.”
“They are blue when skies are grey.”
“And just like him, she never stops, never takes the day for granted, works for everything that's handed to her, never once complains.”
“You think that I nearly lost you.”
“So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your side.”
“You're the love of my life, you know that I will never leave your side.”
“You come home from work and you kiss me on the eye.”
“And now the kids are coming home.”
“You can make the fire.”
Take Your Time (Coming Home)
“Take your time coming home.”
“Hear the wheels as they roll.”
“Let your lungs fill up with smoke.”
“Forgive everyone.”
“It’s a beautiful thing when you love somebody.”
“I love somebody.”
“I don’t think I’d been misled.”
“I’m still standing.”
“Very few said, ‘we believe in you.’“
“I’m just a boy inside a voice.”
“Then what the fuck have I been doing for the past six years?”
“How did I end up here?”
“How did I find love and conquer all of my fears?”
“See, I made it out.”
“The truth is that I feel better because I've forgiven everyone.”
“I’m not scared; I’ve got friends.”
“Now I feel like I am home.”
“I keep having this dream.”
“We’re through with causing a scene.”
“I don’t know what it means.”
“For every love that’s lost, I heard a new one comes.”
“Sing along with me.”
“If you love somebody, better let them know.”
