‘‘i know that i ended it, but why won't you chase after me? you know me better than i do, so why didn't you stop me?’’

• why didn't you stop me?

‘‘you love me so hard i still can't sleep, you're growing tired of me and all the things i don't talk about’’

• a pearl

‘‘it's just that i fell in love with a war, nobody told me it ended, and it left a pearl in my head and i roll it around every night, just to watch it glow, every night, baby, that's where i go’’

• a pearl

‘‘i need something bigger than the sky, hold it in my arms and know it's mine; just how many stars will i need to hang around me, to finally call it heaven?’’

• remember my name

‘‘and i'm the idiot with the painted face, in the corner, taking up space, but when he walks in, i am loved, i am loved’’

• me and my husband

‘‘I steal a few breaths from the world for a minute and then I'll be nothing forever, and all of my memories and all of the things I have seen will be gone’’

• me and my husband

‘‘do you wanna be my baby? are you waiting to touch me? you look so good, but i keep my hands, 'til you come into the water’’

• come into the water

‘‘i didn't know i had a dream, i didn't know until i saw you, so would you tell me if you want me? 'cause i can't move until you show me’’

• come into the water

‘‘venus, planet of love, was destroyed by global warming, did its people want too much too? did its people want too much?’’

• nobody

‘‘and i don't want your pity, i just want somebody near me, guess i'm a coward, i just want to feel alright’’

• nobody

‘‘and i hear my heart breaking tonight, i hear my heart breaking tonight, do you hear it too? it's like a summer shower, with every drop of rain singing i love you, i love you, i love you’’

• pink in the night

‘‘baby, though i've closed my eyes, i know who you pretend i am, i know who you pretend i am; but do mi ti, why not me?’’

• whashing machine heart

‘‘it would be a hundred times easier if we were young again, but as it is, and it is, we're just two slow dancers, last ones out, we're two slow dancers, last ones out; and the ground has been slowly pulling us back down, you see it on both our skin, we get a few years and then it wants us back, it would be a hundred times easier if we were young again’’

• two slow dancers