‘‘movies, movies, i want a love like the movies’’

• movies

‘‘in my head we're dancing in the dark, in my head we kiss under the stars, but we know that's not what we're doing, 'cause, baby, this ain't like the movies’’

• movies

‘‘but i wanna feel all that love and emotion, be that attached to the person i'm holding, someday i'll be fallin' without caution, but for now i'm only people watching’’

• people watching

‘‘we've traveled the seas, we've ridd...

‘‘and thanks to you, i, i can't love right, i get nice guys and villainize them; read their texts like they're havin' sex right now, scared i'll find out that it's true, and if i do, then i blame you for every worst that i assume’’

• emails i can't send

‘‘we were never in the park, talking on a seesaw, teetering with our feelings in the dark, ignoring tornado warnings. he didn't hold me in his arms, we didn't stumble over the pages of our relationship arc, ignoring tornado warnings’’

• tornado warnings

‘‘i'm not catastrophizing, everything's derailing, was only tryna hold you close while your heart was failing; it's not internet illusion, just two kids going t...

‘‘as i got older i learned i'm a drinker, sometimes a drink feels like family’’

• bug like an angel

‘‘did you go and make promises you can't keep? well, when you break them, they break you right back’’

• bug like an angel

‘‘when i'm bent over, wishin' it was over, makin' all variety of vows i'll never keep, i try to remember: the wrath of the devil was also given him by god’’

• bug like an angel

‘‘i have a hope and though she's blind with no name, she shits where she's sup...

‘‘happy came to visit me, he bought cookies on the way, i poured him tea, and he told me, "it'll all be okay". well, i told him i'd do anything to have him stay with me, so he laid me down, and i felt happy, come inside of me, he laid me down, and i felt happy’’

• happy

‘‘when you go, take this heart, i'll make no more use of it when there's no more you’’

• happy

‘‘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’’

‘‘i cry at the start of every movie, i guess 'cause i wish i was making things too, but i'm working for the knife [...] i start the day lying and end with the truth, that i'm dying for the knife’’

• working for the knife

‘‘i always knew the world moves on, i just didn't know it would go without me [...] i always thought the choice was mine, and i was right but i just chose wrong’’

• working for the knife

‘‘sometimes i think i am free, until i find i'm back in line again’’

• everyone

‘‘there's nothing i can do, not much ...

‘‘tomorrow i'll be quicker, i'll stare into the strobe light flicker, and afloat i'll stay, but i'm quite alright hiding today. tomorrow i'll be faster, i'll catch what i've been chasing after, and have time to play, but i'm quite alright hiding today’’

• hiding tonight

‘‘i'm not the kind of fool who's gonna sit and sing to you, about stars, girl; but last night i looked up into the dark half of the blue, and they'd gone backwards. something in your magnetism must have pissed them off, forcing them to get an early night, i have been searching from the bottom to the top for such a sight, as the one i caught when i saw your fingers dimming the lights, like you're used to being told that you're trouble, and i spent all night stuck on the puzzle’’