various lyric starters

beesmemethings:

• _{❛  this is the part where the end starts.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I can’t take it any longer.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I just can’t tears your tears.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  but will we sleep once I tell you what’s hurting me ?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  how many storms have you been in ?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  don’t you try to resist.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  you are more than ready for this.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I’ll give you what you need.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I’m not gonna chase you like they chase you ‘cause I don’t want to play.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  it seems like I have conquered every fear I ever had.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I don’t regret a thing and I won’t forget a thing.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I never thought I’d see today with you.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I didn’t picture this, I wasn’t hoping high.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  now I’m reaching for the things I’ve left behind.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  is it too proud to say that I like who we became ?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I guess growing up turned out to be okay.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  it’s nothing less than perfect.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  every heartache was worth it.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I’m sitting hear wearing the weight of the world on my shoulders.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  it’s been a long day, and there’s still work to do.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  there’s a ball at the castle, and I’ve been invited, and I need to practice dancing.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  she says he’s a nice guy, and I’d be impressed.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  she came home today with a ring on her hand.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  and all that’s left is rage.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  stay alive for the good times.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  stay alive for the hopes and the fears and the dreams.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  your fear controls everything.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  when you get older your wild heart will live for younger days.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  think of me if ever you’re afraid.  ❜}
• _{❛  one day you’ll leave this world behind, so live a life you will remember.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  somebody misses you when you’re away.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  somebody loves you.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I think you’re gonna miss me when I’m gone.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I leave you here, for once, for all.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  it’s time to say goodbye again.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  shallow graves for shallow hearts.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  if you could envision the meaning of a tragedy, you might be surprised to find it’s you and me.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  when it comes down to it, you never made the most of it.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I won’t be made a fool of.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  don’t call this love.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I wrote two hundred letters I will never send.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  why won’t you answer me ?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I’m gonna get you back.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  why do you do what you do to me ?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I’m gonna love you like I’ve never been broken.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I don’t need a reason for anything I feel.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  just be glad I say what I mean, and mean what I say to you.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  are you real ?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I just wanna be ok.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I just wanna feel something today.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  open me up and you will see, I’m a gallery of broken hearts.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I’m beyond repair, let me be.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I’ll take you home if you don’t leave me at the front door.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I saw you dancing and I couldn’t get you off my mind.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I could tell that you could tell that I was taking my time.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  where’s the miniskirt made of snake skin ?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  when did reality become TV ?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  there’s some kind of blessing here.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  pretty little thing.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  this isn’t what I wanted.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  don’t look at me that way.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  pushing you away gets harder every day.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  you’re such a bad, bad girl.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I need you, I want you.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  give me all you’ve got tonight.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  when your hand finds the hand it was meant to hold, don’t let go.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I’ll never fall in love again.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I’ve been there and I’m glad I’m out.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  there’s no one else’s eyes that can see into me.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  you know my heart by heart.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  what did you come for ?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  where is your leader ?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  where is your conscience ?  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I can’t take this, I can’t take what’s not mine.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  you won’t take us alive.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  you’re just a number.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I don’t blame you for your hesitation.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I surrender to losing you.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I’ve been hiding in this bottle of whiskey.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I hear your voice in my head when there’s no one else around.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  there is no where else for me to run to.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  all these things we’ve done, we cannot undo.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I tried to replace you but it’s so hard to let you go.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I tried to erase you but I just can’t forget you.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I ain’t nothing but tired.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I’m just tired and bored with myself.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I could use just a little help.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  there’s something happening somewhere.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  you can’t start a fire without a spark.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  there’s a joke here somewhere and it’s on me.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  they say you gotta stay hungry, well I’m just about starving tonight.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  I’m dying for some action.  ❜}
  
• _{❛  come on baby, give me just one look.  ❜}

andhungry:

NIGHT SKY WITH EXIT WOUNDS SENTENCE STARTERS.

all text taken from the poetry book night sky with exit wounds by ocean vuong.

• ‘  in the body, where everything has a price, i was a beggar.  ‘
  
• ‘  he was singing, which is why i remember it. his voice — it filled me to the core like a skeleton.  ‘
  
• ‘  even my name knelt down inside me, asking to be spared.  ‘
  
• ‘  it is all i remember.  ‘
  
• ‘  i was alive. i didn’t know there was a better reason.  ‘
  
• ‘  i lost it all with my eyes wide open.  ‘
  
• ‘  do you know who i am?  ‘
  
• ‘  how easily a boy in a dress the red of shut eyes vanishes beneath the sound of his own galloping.  ‘
  
• ‘  i’m dreaming of a curtain of snow falling from her shoulders.  ‘
  
• ‘  snow scraping against the window. snow shredded with gunfire. red sky.  ‘
  
• ‘  show me how ruin makes a home out of hip bones.  ‘
  
• ‘  let every river envy our mouths. let every kiss hit the body like a season.  ‘
  
• ‘  if you must know anything, know that the hardest task is to live only once.  ‘
  
• ‘  if we make it to shore, i will name our son after this water. i will learn to love a monster.  ‘
  
• ‘  he laughs despite knowing he has ruined every beautiful thing just to prove beauty cannot change him.  ‘
  
• ‘  hey! you didn’t have to go this far. why did you go so far?  ‘
  
• ‘  sometimes i feel like an ampersand.  ‘
  
• ‘  everyone can forget us — as long as you remember.  ‘
  
• ‘  i hold the gun & wonder if an entry wound in the night would make a hole as wide as morning.  ‘
  
• ‘  there’s a lighthouse. some nights you are the lighthouse, some nights the sea.  ‘
  
• ‘  what this means is that i don’t know desire other than the need to be shattered & rebuilt.  ‘
  
• ‘  even tomorrow you will have today.  ‘
  
• ‘  you’ll never forget yourself the way god forgets his hands.  ‘
  
• ‘  the body is a blade that sharpens by cutting.  ‘
  
• ‘  my mother said i could be anything i wanted — but i chose to live.  ‘
  
• ‘  i am ready to be every animal you leave behind.  ‘
  
• ‘  and this is how we loved: a fifth of vodka and an afternoon in the attic, your fingers though my hair — my hair a wildfire.  ‘
  
• ‘  when our lips touched the day closed into a coffin.  ‘
  
• ‘  the year is a distance we’ve traveled in circles.  ‘
  
• ‘  we made it, baby. we’re riding in the back of the black limousine.  ‘
  
• ‘  i love my country. i pretend nothing is wrong.  ‘
  
• ‘  i’m holding your still-hot thoughts in, darling, my sweet, sweet ___.  ‘
  
• ‘  you want to tell him it’s okay that the night is also a grave we climb out of.  ‘
  
• ‘  you say thank you thank you thank you because you haven’t learned the purpose of forgive me.  ‘
  
• ‘  you’re so quiet you’re almost tomorrow.  ‘
  
• ‘  to love another man — is to leave no one behind to forgive me. i want to leave no one behind.  ‘
  
• ‘  even though he’s gone, i still want to be clean.  ‘
  
• ‘  if only the rain were gasoline, your tongue a lit match, & you can change without disappearing.  ‘
  
• ‘  he dies each night you close your eyes & hear his slow exhale.  ‘
  
• ‘  wait, i have something to say.  ‘
  
• ‘  as if my finger, tracing your collarbone behind closed doors, was enough to erase myself.  ‘
  
• ‘  to forget we built this house knowing it won’t last.  ‘
  
• ‘  it’s funny. i always knew i’d be warmest beside by man.  ‘
  
• ‘  don’t laugh. just tell me the story again.  ‘
  
• ‘  speak — until your voice is nothing but the crackle of charred bones.  ‘
  
• ‘  look how happy we are to be no one & still american.  ‘
  
• ‘  i’ll tell you how we’re wrong enough to be forgiven/  ‘
  
• ‘  say you’d kill for it.  ‘
  
• ‘  don’t we touch each other just to prove we are still here?  ‘
  
• ‘  silly me. i thought love was real and the body imaginary.  ‘
  
• ‘  i said yes because you asked me to stay.  ‘
  
• ‘  there is so much i want to tell you. how my greatest accolade was to walk across the brooklyn bridge & not think of flight.  ‘
  
• ‘  you will always remember what you were doing when it hurts the most.  ‘
  
• ‘  dearest father, forgive me for i have seen.  ‘
  
• ‘  once, i fell in love during a slow-motion car crash.  ‘
  
• ‘  i wrote a better hour onto the page & watched the fire take it back.  ‘
  
• ‘  this means you are not alone.  ‘
  
• ‘  don’t stay here. don’t cry anymore.  ‘
  
• ‘  i promise to stop soon.  ‘
  
• ‘  how come depression makes me feel more alive?  ‘
  
• ‘  i shouldn’t have, but he had the hands of someone i used to know. someone i was used to.  ‘
  
• ‘  i dreamed i walked barefoot all the way to your house in the snow. everything was the blue of smudged ink and you were still alive.  ‘
  
• ‘  here. that’s all i wanted to be.  ‘
  
• ‘  don’t worry. your father is only your father until one of you forgets.  ‘
  
• ‘  the end of the road is so far ahead it is already behind us.  ‘
  
• ‘  don’t be afraid, the gunfire is only the sound of people trying to live a little longer & failing.  ‘
  
• ‘  remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world.  ‘
  
• ‘  the difference between prayer & mercy is how you move the tongue.  ‘
  
• ‘  so what if my feathers are burning. i never asked for flight.  ‘