- "ben, he loved her like he loved no one. the way she laughed and held the smoking gun, the way she always said 'what's done is done'. and he is not the only one."
- "as my love for you is steadily dying, as sharp and serious as a pistol in the eye."
- lady lamb, "dear arkansas daughter"
- "i've never had a shoulder to cry on, someone to call mine. everybody's falling in love and i'm falling behind."
- "you're the sun, you've never seen the light- but you hear it's 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."
- mitski, "your best american girl"
- "i better ace that interview- I should tell them that i'm not afraid to die- i better ace that interview."
- mitski, "my body's made of crushed little stars"
- "holding hands under a table, meeting up in your bedroom, making love to other people, telling each other it's all good."
- mitski, "a loving feeling"
- "the walls are bendin' shape, they got a cheshire cat grin, all blurring into one, this place is on a mission."
- radiohead, "jigsaw falling into place"
- "i used to walk down the windy windy sidewalks, slapping my leg with the riding crop, thinking it made me come off so tough. i didn't smile because a smile always seem rehearsed, i wasn't afraid of the bullies- and that just made the bullies worse."
- "tony told me he'd describe me as 'pissed off, funny and warm', sebastian said 'i'm a good man in a storm'."
- "i don't know how to live without my hand on his throat, i fight him always and still."
- fiona apple, "fast as you can"
- "i always knew the world moves on, i just didn't know it would go without me."
- mitski, "working for the knife"
- "and i know that you mean so well, but i am not a vessel for your good intent!"
- the crane wives, "tongues & teeth"
- "he said 'it's all in your head', and i said 'so's everything', but he didn't get it. I thought he was a man, but he was just a little boy."
- "だんだん強がって ドロドロに伏す. (i pretend more and more to be strong, but end face-down in the mud.)"
- "i guess i just must be a daredevil, i don't feel anything until i smash it all."
- "i will poison all your happy thoughts! i will love you like the ashes in my cigarette box!"
- the crane wives, "tongues & teeth"
- "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!"
- "雨が降る街で濡れた頭で佇む. 晴れを待つ人に愚痴をこぼす人 傘の中で指を差してる. (i linger in the raining streets, soaked from head to toe. some wait for the sun, some grumble about the rain, all pointing at me inside their umbrella.)"
- hachiya nanashi, "jitterbug"
- "i grew up in the shoes they told me i could fill, shoes that weren't made for running up that hill. but i need to run up that hill, i need to run up that hill, i will, i will, i will, i will..."
- fiona apple, "fetch the bolt cutters"
- "everything i do is tragic, every guy i like is gay!"
- olivia rodrigo, "ballad of a homeschooled girl"
- "they only want you when you're 17. when you're 21, you're no fun- they take a polaroid and let you go, say 'they'll let you know', so come on."
- "i will take control of my reaction, so i am not a product of you!"
- "hey hey hey, boys lets go to the frat party! the themes white people, get your roofies ready!!"
- mommy long legs, "sorority girls"
- "your body is not your own, you have no autonomy! your body is not your own, YOU ARE PUBLIC PROPERTY!"
- dream nails, "vagina police"
- "so go ahead and tell your sob story, all i have to say about it is blow me."
- be your own pet, "you're a waste"
- "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."
- "keep on giving, and i keep on giving pieces! how many pieces left for myself?"
- jemina pearl, "after hours"
- "redeem, can you finally show that you've come clean? no longer above me, OH HONEY!"
- destroy boys, "methatonin"
- "these walls are too thin, and people aren't on my side!!"
- destroy boys, "soundproof"
- "i was the chosen sailor, but i missed my mark. oh, vixen i'm missing, take me back and tear me apart!"
- "MY BLOOD RUNS COLD, MY THOUGHTS ARE PLASMIC, I'M NOT LETTING GO. AND LETTING GO COULD BE ORGASMIC!! BUT I GUESS I WOULDN'T KNOW."
- dazey & the scouts, "wet"
- "i'm not a flower that wilts only for you to teach me to grow, i'm not a drunken wet kiss in the basement at one of your shows."
- dazey & the scouts, "sad boys"
- "to be trans is to be your own pall bearer, to carry the weight of a dead person around with you. my gender can't speak, but even if it could, it'd stay hidden in the corner of every room trying to keep quiet anyway."
- dazey & the scouts, "sweet cis teen"
- "it's wrong to want more than a folk song?! I'M WRONG TO WANT MORE THAN A FOLK SONG?!"
- "every ten year-old enemy soldier thinks falling bombs are shooting stars sometimes, but she doesn't make wishes on them."
- "what does it even mean to be a girl? IT'S TIME FOR US TO RULE THE FUCKING WORLD!!!"
- surly grrly, "hey little girl
nov 7 2023 ∞
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