—— lush

• but if i gave up on being pretty, i wouldn't know how to be alive / i should move to a brand new city and teach myself how to die
• i cannot bear you a son / but i will try / for if i am not yours, what am i?
• cried out a creak and opened / to show me what's beyond it / a hopeless violence / i named it love
• but hunter, you were human / don't forget it and go safely / and i, i'll live without you / though the struggle will be daily

—— retired from sad, new career in business

• so i don't blame you if you want to / bury me in your memory, i'm not the girl i ought to be, but / maybe when you tell your friends, you / can tell them what you saw in me, and not the way i am
• i once lived in the sea / bring me to your ear, you can hear / the tide where i used to be / though now i'm but a shell
• i broke what you gave me / but you kept giving more / and i'm sorry for taking / but i'll keep wanting more, more, more
• you're in the house / and i am here in the car / i just need a quiet place / where i can scream / how i love you
• god's very simple and love shouldn't burn
• well, that's my ride / hope you had a good night / you know, you made me happy / here, shake my hand / you make such a good man / never once did you know me

—— bury me at makeout creek

• you make it there and you make it / anywhere, anywhere / but i've been anywhere and it's not what i want / i wanna be still with you
• i want a love that falls as fast / as a body from the balcony, and / i want to kiss like my heart is chasing it down
• wild women don't get the blues / but i find that lately, i've been crying like a tall child
• i don't need the world to see / that i've been the best i can be, but / i don't think i could stand to be / where you don't see me
• i am stronger than you give me / credit for / if your hands need to break / more than trinkets in your room / you can lean on my arm / as you break my heart
• i will wash your hair at night / and dry it off with care / i will see your body bare / and still i will live here
• i always wanted to die clean and pretty / but i'd be too busy on working days / so i am relieved that the turbulence wasn't forecasted / i couldn't have changed anyways / i am relieved that i left my room tidy / goodbye

—— puberty 2

• and if you're going, take the moon / then, maybe i will see you / in the night, i'll see you / and when you go, take this heart / i'll make no more use of it when there's no more you
• if you would let me give you pinky promise kisses / then i wouldn't have to scream your name / atop of every roof in the city of my heart
• you're the sun, you've seen the night / but you hear its song from the morning birds / well, i'm not the moon, i'm not even a star / but awake at night i'll be singing to the birds
• i always want you when i'm finally fine / how you'd be over me looking in my eyes when i cum / someone to watch me die
• i am a forest fire / and i am the fire, and i am the forest / and i am a witness watching it / i stand in a valley watching it / and you are not there at all
• and i'll go to work, and i'll go to sleep / and i'll love the littler things / i'll love some littler things

—— be the cowboy

• i look for a picture of you / to keep in my pocket / but i can't seem to find one where you / look how i remember
• i steal a few breaths from the world for a minute / and then i'll be nothing forever
• maybe i'm the same as all those men / writing songs of all they're dreaming / but would you tell me if you want me? / 'cause i can't move until you show
• venus, planet of love / was destroyed by global warming / did its people want too much too?
• i know i've kissed you before, but / i didn't do it right / can i try again, try again, try again / try again, and again, and again / and again, and again, and again?
• and the ground has been slowly pulling us back down / you see it on both our skins / we get a few years and then it wants us back

—— laurel hell

• let's step carefully into the dark / once we're in, i'll remember my way around
• i always thought the choice was mine / and i was right, but i just chose wrong / i start the day lying and end with the truth / that i'm dying for the knife
• sometimes i think i am free / until i find i'm back in line again
• if i keep myself at home / i won't make the same mistake / that i made for fifteen years / i could be a new girl / i will be a new girl
• i guess this is the end / i'll have to learn to be somebody else / it's been you and me since before i was me / without you, i don't yet know quite how to live
• if i could keep anything of you / i would keep just this quiet after you