- Your Favorite Weapon:
- And even if her plane crashes tonight she'll find some way to disappoint me, by not burning in the wreckage, or drowning at the bottom of the sea. (Jude Law and a Semester Abroad)
- Last night I swallowed liquor and a lighter, and this morning I threw up fire. (Sudden Death in Carolina)
- I got a twenty dollar bill that says no one's ever seen you without make-up. (Mix Tape)
- Forget everything you think you know about me. (Last Chance to Lose Your Keys)
- I shot the pilot, now I'm begging you to fly this for me. I am here for you to use, broken and bruised, do you understand? (The No Seatbelt Song)
- Back in school they never taught us what we needed to know, like how to deal with despair, or someone breaking your heart. [...] So don't apologize, I hope you choke and die. [...] They say you need to pray if you want to go to heaven, they don't tell you what to say when your whole life has gone to hell. [...] Have another drink and drive yourself home, I hope there's ice on all the roads. And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt, and again when your head goes through the window. (Seventy Times 7)
- Tonight will go on forever while we walk around this town like we own the streets, and stay awake through summer like we own the heat. Singing "everybody wake up, it's time to get down." [...] I'm gonna stay eighteen forever, so we can live like this forever. And we'll never miss a party because we'll keep them going constantly. And we'll never have to listen to anyone about anything, because it's all been done, and it's all been said. We're the coolest kids and we take what we can get. [...] You're just jealous because we're young and in love. (Soco Amaretto Lime)
- Deja Entendu:
- I'm sinking like a stone in the sea. I'm burning like a bridge for your body. (Tautou)
- It used to be the reason I breathed, and now it's choking me up. [...] He is the lamb, she is the slaughter. (Sic Transit Gloria...Glory Fades)
- The coastline is quiet, as we're quietly losing control. We are silent, but sure. We've invented the cure that will wash out my memories of her. (I Will Play My Game Beneath The Spin Light)
- I am heaven sent, don't you dare forget. [...] Every line is about who I don't want to write about anymore. (Okay I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't)
- I lie for only you, and I lie well, hallelu. (The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows)
- Call me a safe bet, I'm betting I'm not. [...] You are the smell before rain, you are the blood in my veins. (The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot)
- I will lie awake, and lie for fun and fake the way I hold you. Let you fall for every empty word I say. (Me vs. Maradona vs. Elvis)
- Is this the way a toy feels when it's batteries run dry? I am the watch you always wear, but you forget to wind. [...] If I could, I would shrink myself. Shrink through your skin to your blood cells, remove whatever makes you hurt...but I am too weak to be your cure. (Guernica)
- Take heart, sweetheart, or I will take it from you. (Good To Know If I Ever Need Attention All I Have To Do Is Die)
- What they call love is a risk to always get hit out of nowhere by some wave and end up on your own. [...] Your tongue is a rudder, it steers the whole ship, sends your words past your lips or keeps them safe behind your teeth. [...] I need you like water in my lungs. (Play Crack the Sky)
- Fight Off Your Demons (Leaked):
- I wrote your name and burned it, to see the color of the flame. And it burned out the whole spectrum, as if you were everything. Mine just burned gold, a normal flame. I am not anything. (Untitled 1)
- I sometimes reach to rub an aching leg, but they've been dust for over a decade, and you're the limb I've lost but somehow I still feel. [...] To think of all the paintings we would be without if Van Gogh had gone and died face down from loss of blood the night he went and hacked his ear off. (Untitled 4)
- We don’t want trouble, we’ll take what we came for and we’ll leave quiet. Or maybe we will tear you up, take what you love, and burn it down. (Untitled 5, Nobody Moves)
- What we invented, I am now ending. [...] You chose to keep your teenage tragedy, in lieu of a romantic palace. (Untitled 7, Fork and Knife)
- The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Of Me:
- This ship of fools I'm on will sink. [...] I used to know the name of every person I kissed, now I made this bed and I can't fall asleep in it. (Millstone)
- My bright is too slight to hold back all my dark. (Jesus)
- I love you so much that it hurts my head. (Degausser)
- But can I get myself out from underneath this guilt that will crush me? And in the choir I saw our sad Messiah, he was bored and tired of my laments. Said, "I died for you one time, but never again." (Limousine)
- They say in heaven there's no husbands and wives. On the day that I show up, they'll be completely out of their forgiveness supplies. (You Won't Know)
- Please don't be technology, so I can't turn off your love like some cold machine. (Not the Sun)
- We've fixed you with cement galoshes, no one can save you now. Unless you have friends among fish, there'd still be no air to breath. You could drink up the entire ocean, we'll still find someone to be everything you know that you'll never be. (Luca)
- You're beating with a book everyone that book told you to love. (The Archer's Bows Have Broken)
- Daisy:
- Everything that I own starts to pile up like bones, make the walls of a prison. (Bed)
- We never are what we intend, or invent. (At The Bottom)
- I swear it's like dying to catch a ghost, it feels like I'm trying to hold smoke. (Gasoline)
- So if I'm a liar, and you're a thief, at least we both know where the other one sleeps. (You Stole)
- I don't want to let you go, but it hurts my hands to hold the rope. [...] I see God in birds and Satan in long words. (Sink)
- I'm a mouth that doesn't smile, I'm a word that no one ever wants to say. (Daisy)
- We live in the jar and think the lid's the sky. [...] Stars are just a million little fireflies, the sun is just a hole. What is the light outside? (In A Jar)
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