our lawyer made us change the name of this song so we wouldn’t get sued

    • the ribbon on my wrist says “do not open before christmas”

dance, dance

    • i’m two quarters and a heart down
    • drink up: it’s last call, last resort, but only the first mistake
    • why don’t you show me the little bit of spine? / you’ve been saving for his mattress, love
    • i only want sympathy in the form of you crawling into bed with me

sugar we’re goin down

    • am i more than you bargained for yet? / oh, don’t mind me, i’m watching you two from the closet / wishing to be the friction in your jeans / isn’t it messed up how i’m just dying to be him? / i’m just a notch in your bedpost, but you’re just a line in a song / drop a heart, break a name / we’re always sleeping in and sleeping for the wrong team
    • i’ll be your number one with a bullet / a loaded god complex, cock it and pull it

nobody puts baby in the corner

    • i’ll keep my jealousy close ‘cause it’s all mine / and if you say this makes you happy / then i’m not the only one lying.
    • i’ll be your best kept secret / and your biggest mistake / the hand behind this pen relives a failure every day
    • so wear me like a locket around your throat / i’ll weigh you down, i’ll watch you choke / you look so good in blue

i’ve got a dark alley and a bad idea that says you should shut your mouth (summer song)

    • i’m hopelessly hopeful, you’re just hopeless enough / but we never had it at all

7 minutes in heaven (atavan halen)

    • i’ll be stuck fixated on one star when the world is crashing down / i keep telling myself, i keep telling myself i’m not the desperate type
    • the only thing worse than not knowing is you thinking that i don’t know

sophomore slump or comeback of the year

    • are we growing up or just going down?
    • i swear i’d burn this city down to show you the light
    • the best part of “believe” is the “lie” / i hope you sing along and you steal a line

champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends

    • strike us like matches, ‘cause everyone deserves the flames

i slept with someone in fall out boy and all i got was this stupid song written about me

    • i’m the first kid to write of hearts, lies, and friends / and i am sorry my conscience called in sick again
    • douse yourself in cheap perfume / it’s so fitting, so fitting of the way you are / you can’t cover it up

a little less sixteen candles, a little more “touch me”

    • i don’t blame you for being you / but you can’t blame me for hating it
    • i set my clocks early, ‘cause i know i’m always late

get busy living or get busy dying (do your part to save the scene and stop going to shows)

    • if you are the shores, i am the waves begging for big moons / i’m mailing letters to addresses in a ghost town
    • i used to obsess over living, now i only obsess over you / tell me you’d like boys like me better / in the dark lying on top of you / this has been said so many times that i’m not sure if it matters

xo

    • it starts eyes closed to fingers crossed / to “’i swear,’ i say” / to hands between legs to whatever it takes / to drinks at the club to the bar to the keys to your car / to the hotel stairs to the emergency exit door, no
    • love never wanted me, but i took it anyway / put your ear to the speaker and choose love of sympathy / but never both

snitches and talkers get stitches and walkers

    • and i will save him from himself / here’s a picture with a note / “no, don’t turn out like me” / it’s only for your own good

the music or the misery

    • i got your love letters, corrected the grammar and sent them back / it’s true romance is dead / i shot it in the chest then in the head / and if you wanna go down in history, then i’m your prince
    • i’m every cliché, but i simply do it best
jan 9 2018 ∞
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