song lyrics that double as writing prompts

i come across nice song lyrics all the time and wanted a place to collect them :) if anyone does use these as writing prompts, please tag me, i would love to read your work!!

[writing-with-music]

Spend the rest of my life with what could have been, and I will die in the house that I grew up in

Noah Kahan // Homesick

[writing-with-music]

As luck would have it I'm on the planet, and so it seems are you

Tom Rosenthal // As Luck Would Have It

[writing-with-music]

When you saw the dead little bird you started crying, but you know the killer doesn't understand

Phoebe Bridgers // Moon Song

[writing-with-music]

I know my room is a mess, over and over again I tell myself I'll clean tomorrow. Just move the stuff up off the bed and do what you came here to do

Mitski // Bag of Bones

[writing-with-music]

I am drowning, there is no sign of land. You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand

The Mountain Goats // No Children 

[writing-with-music]

If you must die, sweetheart, die knowing your life was my life's best part

Keaton Henson // You

[writing-with-music]

On some level I think I always understood that a ship could never really love an anchor. So I did the only thing that I could, and severed the rope to set you sailing from my harbor

The Crane Wives // Never Love an Anchor

[writing-with-music]

From the destruction, out of the flame, you need a villain, give me a name

The Lumineers // Salt And The Sea

[writing-with-music]

A trick of the light to love you tonight

Lemon Demon // Soft Fuzzy Man 

[writing-with-music]

I'm so tired that I might quit my job, start a new life, and they'd all be so disappointed, 'cause who am I, if not exploited?

Olivia Rodrigo // Brutal

[writing-with-music]

I don't care if I lose my mind, I'm already cursed

Alexander Rybak // Fairytale 

[writing-with-music]

Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now

B.o.B ft Hayley Williams // Airplanes

[writing-with-music]

For a heart beats the best in a bed beside the one that it loves

Lady Lamb // Crane Your Neck

[writing-with-music]

Is it courageous or escapist to leave the quarantine when you're contagious? It may just be a cold, and besides, I don't want to get old

Will Wood // Love, Me Normally 

[writing-with-music]

In the Vegas lights, where villains spend the weekend

Panic! At The Disco // Vegas Lights 

[writing-with-music]

Fear is his name, but his friends still call him God

MGMT // One Thing Left to Try

[writing-with-music]

I bought me some new socks, I won't lose them, I'm sure. And someday hopefully, I'll slip away and they'll lose me, and I'll be seeing the world

AJR // Adventure Is Out There