all i want is a partner who is way out of my league but thinks that i’m way out of their league and we’ll live together in perfect confused harmony with a dog
“ what did you think i’d say to that? ” “ they strike to kill and you know i will. ” “ what do you sing on your drive home? ” “ do you see my face? ” “ fuck you forever. ” “ every time you call me crazy, i get more crazy. ” “ when you say i seem angry, i get more angry. ” “ there’s nothing like a mad woman. ” “ what a shame she went mad. ” “ no one likes a mad woman. ” “ you made her like that. ” “ you’ll poke that bear till her claws come out. ” “ now i breathe flames each time i talk. ” “ they say ‘move on’ but you know i won’t. ” “ it’s obvious that wanting me dead has really brought you two together. ” “ you took everything from me. ”
epiphany
“ keep your life. ” “ i think he’s bleeding out. ” “ some things you just can’t speak about. ” “ with you i serve. ” “ with you i fall down. ” “ i think she’s crashing. ” “ you dream of some epiphany. ” “ just one single glimpse of relief. ” “ make some sense of what you’ve seen. ”
betty
“ i won’t make assumptions. ” “ it’s like i couldn’t breathe. ” “ the worst thing that i ever did was what i did to you. ” “ would you tell me to go fuck myself? ” “ i know i miss you. ” “ i know where it all went wrong. ” “ i dreamt of you all summer long. ” “ it’s finally sinking in. ” “ the only thing i wanna do is make it up to you. ” “ will you have me, will you love me? ” “ will you kiss me on the porch in front of all your stupid friends? ” “ will it patch your broken wings? ” “ standing in you cardigan, kissing in my car again. ”
peace
“ our coming of age has come and gone. ” “ never had the courage of my convictions. ” “ i could never give you peace. ” “ i’m a fire and i’ll keep your brittle heart warm. ” “ love’s for show. ” “ i would die for you in secret. ” “ your integrity makes me seem small. ” “ give you the silence that that only comes when two people understand each other. ” “ family that i chose, now that i see your brother as my brother. ” “ is it enough? ”
hoax
“ this has broken me down. ” “ give me a reason. ” “ your faithless love’s the only hoax i believe in. ” “ don’t want no other shade of blue. ” “ no other sadness in the world would do. ” “ i am ash from your fire. ” “ you know, i left a part of me back in new york. ” “ you knew the hero died. ” “ you knew the hero died, so what’s the movie for? ” “ you knew it still hurts underneath my scars. ” “ they pulled me apart. ” “ you knew you won, so what’s the point of keeping score? ” “ what you did was just as dark. ”
the lakes
“ isn’t it romantic how all my elegies eulogize me? ” “ i’m not cut out for all these cynical clones. ” “ take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die. ” “ i don’t belong and, my beloved, neither do you. ” “ i’m setting off, but not without my muse. ” “ i’ve come too ar to watch some name-dropping sleaze tell me what my wordsworth. ” “ i want auroras and sad prose. ” “ i want to watch wisteria grow right over my bare feet. ” “ i want you right here. ” “ no, not without you. ”
“ i’ll show you every version of yourself tonight. ” “ when i break, it’s in a million pieces. ” “ they said the end is near. ” “ i can change everything about me to fit in. ” “ i’m still a believer. ”
seven
“ i hit my peak. ” “ i was too scared to jump in. ” “ are there still beautiful things? ” “ cross your heart. ” “ i still got love for you. ” “ love you to the moon and to saturn. ” “ i think your house is haunted. ” “ your dad is always mad: i think you should come live with me. ” “ i think you should come live with me. ” “ then you won’t have to cry. ” “ then you won’t have to cry or hide in the closet. ” “ our love will be passed on. ” “ our love lasts so long. ”
august
“ i never needed anything more. ” “ i can see us lost in the memory. ” “ i can see us twisted in bedsheets. ” “ you were never mine. ” “ wanting was enough. ” “ you weren’t mine to lose. ”
this is me trying
“ i’ve been having a hard time adjusting. ” “ i didn’t know if you’d care if i came back. ” “ i have a lot of regrets about that. ” “ could’ve followed my fears all the way down. ” “ i’m here in your doorway. ” “ this is me trying. ” “ they told me all of my cages were mental. ” “ so i got wasted like all my potential. ” “ my words shoot to kill when i’m mad. ” “ i was so ahead of the curve. ” “ i ws so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere. ” “ i ended up here. ” “ pouring out my heart to a stranger. ” “ at least i’m trying. ” “ it’s hard to be at a party when i feel like an open wound. ” “ it’s hard to be anywhere these days when all i want is you. ” “ you’re a flashback in a film reel. ” “ maybe i don’t quite know what to say. ”
illicit affairs
“ make sure nobody sees you leave. ” “ keep your eyes down. ” “ tell yourself you can always stop. ” “ that’s the thing about illicit affairs. ” “ it dies a million little times. ” “ leave no trace behind. ” “ you leave no trace behind like you don’t even exist. ” “ take the words for what they are: a dwindling mercurial high. ” “ it only worked the first few hundred times. ” “ and you wanna scream don’t call me kid, don’t call me baby. ” “ look at this godforsaken mess that you made me. ” “ you showed me colours you know i can’t see with anyone else. ” “ look at this idiotic fool that you made me. ” “ you taught me a secret language i can’t speak with anyone else. ” “ you know damned well for you i would ruin myself. ” “ you know damned well for you i would ruin myself a million little times. ”
invisible string
“ isn’t it just so pretty to think all along there was some invisible string. ” “ all along there was some invisible string tying you to me. ” “ cutting me open, then healing me fine. ” “ a string that pulled me out of all the wrong arms. ” “ something wrapped all of my past mistakes in barbed wire. ” “ one single thread of gold tied me to you. ” “ cold was the steel of my axe to grind for the boys who broke my heart. ” “ hell was the journey but it brought me to heaven. ”
“ you know the greatest films of all time were never made. ” “ if you wanted me, you really should’ve showed. ” “ you’re never gonna grow. ” “ we were something, don’t you think so? ” “ if my wishes came true, it would’ve been you. ” “ in my defense, i have none. ” “ it would’ve been fun if you would’ve been the one. ” “ the greatest loves of all time are over now. ” “ if one thing had been different, would everything be different? ” “ it would’ve been sweet if it could’ve been me. ”
cardigan
“ when you are young, they assume you know nothing. ” “ i knew you. ” “ baby, kiss it better. ” “ i felt like i was an old cardigan under someone’s bed. ”
“ i felt like i was an old cardigan under someone’s bed, you put me on & said i was your favourite. ”
“ a friend to all is a friend to none. ” “ you drew stars around my scars. ” “ tried to change the ending. ” “ i knew you, leaving like a father. ” “ i knew you’d linger. ” “ i knew you’d haunt all of my what-ifs. ” “ i knew everything when i was young. ” “ i knew i’d curse you for the longest time. ” “ i knew you’d come back to me. ”
the last great american dynasty
“ the wedding was charming. ” “ there’s only so far new money goes. ” “ if she never showed up what could’ve been. ” “ i had a marvelous time ruining everything. ”
exile
“ if took you five whole minutes to pack us up. ” “ i didn’t like the ending. ” “ you’re not my homeland anymore. ” “ what am i defending now? ” “ now i’m in exile. ” “ those eyes add insult to injury. ” “ i’m not your problem anymore. ” “ i never learned to read your mind. ” “ you never learned to read my mind. ” “ you never gave a warning sign. ” “ i gave so many signs. ” “ you didn’t even see the signs. ”
my tears richochet
“ if i’m on fire, you’ll be made of ashes too. ” “ even on my worst days did i deserve all the hell you gave me? ” “ i swear i loved you till my dying day. ” “ i didn’t have it in myself to go with grace. ” “ you’re the hero flying around saving face. ” “ if i’m dead to you why are you at the wake? ” “ look at how my tears ricochet. ” “ when i’d fight you used to tell me i was brave. ” “ i can go anywhere i want, just not home. ” “ aim for my heart. ” “ you would still miss me in your bones. ” “ i still talk to you. ” “ you turned into your worst fears. ”