Noah Kahan
- Dial drunk
"Son, why do you do this to yourself?" And I said, I ain't proud of all the punches that I've thrown in the name of someone I no longer know, for the shame of being young, drunk and alone. Traffic lights and a transmitter radio. I don't like that when they threw me in the car, I gave your name as my emergency phone call, honey it rang and rang even the cops thought you were wrong for hanging up. I dial drunk, I'll die a drunk, I'd die for you.
Noah Kahan
- The View Between Villages
Passed Alger Brook Road, I'm over the bridge, a minute from home but I feel so far from it. The death of my dog, the stretch of my skin, it's all washing over me, I'm angry again. The things that I lost here, the people I knew they got me surrounded for a mile or two. Left at the graveyard, I'm driving past ghosts their arms are extended, my eyes start to close. The car's in reverse, I'm gripping the wheel. I'm back between villages, and everything's still.
unknown
- Favourite love story
My favourite love story has to be about a man who loved the world so much, but wasn't even promised that this world would love him back. Took the wage of the sins of this world on his back, and died on the cross for their sins so that they could be forgiven and have a relationship with his father. These people beat him and tortured him. On his last final breath, he prayed to God and asked to forgive these people because they didn't know what they were doing.
Adrianne Lenker
- god part 2
It seemed like I was asking god for something I didn't deserve. Something shameful like begging for praise instead of acceptance. I don't believe in god when I go to my friends house, her dad died when she was young, and she said that if god were real what reason was there to kill her dad? He's innocent, like a moth. And I agreed because god is supposed to be a father, too. And he isn't cruel. I certainly didn't believe in god when my grandmother was sick. She doesn't move the way she used to.
Adrianne Lenker
- God
I'm never sure if I believe in god or not. I do, sometimes. Like when I'm in church, sitting second row in the pews and watching the pastor that I've known since I was a baby speak and move his hands around wildly as reverends often do. Or when I wore a cross necklace to my driver's test; and while I was sitting in the waiting room I kissed it and prayed that I would pass. It felt a little fake. Because I hadn't prayed anytime recently beforehand.
The End Of the Fing World.
- Silence
That was the day I learned that silence is really loud. Deafening. I think maybe my dad spent his whole life trying to avoid silence. When you have silence, it's hard to keep stuff out. It's all there, and you can't get rid of it. I used to be able to get rid of things, banish them. But I knew, after that day, it wouldn't be so easy anymore... I was never Alyssa's protector. She was mine.
BoJack Horseman
- Free churro - Part 2
Let me tell you, it's a weird thing to feel at 54, that for the first time in your life your mother sees you. It's an odd realization that it's the thing you've been missing, the only thing you wanted all along, to be seen. And it doesn't feel like a relief, to finally be seen. It feels mean, like oh, it turns out that you knew what I wanted, and you waited until the very last moment to give it to me. I was prepared for more cruelty.
BoJack Horseman
- Free Churro - part 1
I was in the hospital with her those last moments, and they were truly horrifying, full of nonsensical screams and cries. But there was this moment, this one instant of strange calm, where she looked in my direction and said, "I see you." That's the last thing she said to me. "I see you." Not a statement of judgment or disappointment, just acceptance and the simple recognition of another person in a room. "Hello, there. You are a person and I see you."
Philip Quast - Les Miserables
- Stars
Stars, in your multitudes. Scarce to be counted, filling the darkness with order and light. You are the sentinels, silent and sure. Keeping watch in the night. Keeping watch in the night. You know your place in the sky. You hold your course and your aim. And each in your season returns and returns, and is always the same. And if you fall as Lucifer fell, you fall in flames!
The Beatles
- Strawberry Fields forever
Living is easy with eyes closed. Misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone, but it all works out. It doesn't matter much to me. Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields. Nothing is real. And nothing to get hung about. Strawberry Fields forever.
Lucy Hodgson.
- I sit here for you.
So now I sit here for you every year, John. Like the fool I am, reminiscing every memory I have with you in it. And I regret, sometimes I chuckle, and very often, I cry. But if I'm going to waste my tears, I'm confident in wasting them on you. I'm sorry for not being there when you were so clearly struggling. I'm sorry for wasting precious days because we argued, or fell out, or 'grew up'. I'm sorry for never telling you how much I really do love you. I cannot put into words how sorry I am.
Lucy Zhang
- The Horse Of My Lifetime
Like in a movie, the trailer will drive off into the sunset and I'll be left hoping that Castle knows how much he has changed my life for the better, how much I'll miss him, and how much I never wanted this to happen. Days of melancholy will come, but I'll soon realise that it was for the best. I'll continue to grow as a rider, and Castle no doubt, go on to make another kid as happy as he made me. To the horse of my lifetime, I'd like to give my endless thank you's.
Phoebe Bridgers
- Graceland Too - Verse 2
So she picks a direction, it's 90 to Memphis. Turns up the music so thoughts don't intrude. Predictably winds up thinking of Elvis. And wonders if he believed songs could come true. I'm asking for it if they do. Doesn't know what she wants, or what she's gonna do. A rebel without a clue.
Unknown.
- I meant it when I said "Forever."
One day I'll get married to someone that is not you. I'll have it all planned out; the place, the music, the vows. I'll stand at the altar I always pictured us in front of and listen to a song that is not ours. I'll spew empty guarantees, "until death do us part," and cross my fingers behind my back. I'll pretend I never promised you forever at 14 and tell them they are what has been missing. I'll look into their blue eyes and try so hard not to morph them into brown.
Caitlin Kelly
- Optimism
I hate it. I hate still being in love with you. I know it's not your fault, and I really do wish I was still in your arms. But hey, maybe one day it will work. Maybe time is what we need - optimism.
Caitlin Kelly
- Space
Space is when the relationship isn't working. Space is when you're tired of fighting. Space is when you both need time. Space is when you can't heal together. Space isn't what I need. Space is what you say you need. I guess we aren't on the same page.
Isabelle
- I can recite the quadratic formula.
I can recite the quadratic formula. That flashcard was stuck on my wall for up to three months leading up to my GCSEs, engraved into my memory ready to recall and apply to a question that may or may not come up on my maths paper 2. Funnily enough, it did come up on my paper, and I was prepared to answer it, however, there are a whole host of things I have never been taught. Something that will never be on an exam and that no amount of revision notes blu-tacked to my wall will prepare me for.
Sir Paul McCartney
- A love song to John. (Part 1)
Here today, a love song to John, written very shortly after he died. I was remembering things about our relationship, about the million things we've done together, from just being in each other's front parlours or bedrooms, to walking on the street together, or hitchhiking long journeys together, which had nothing to do with The Beatles. There's one line in the lyric I don't really mean "Well knowing you, you'd probably laugh and say that we were worlds apart."
Taylor Swift
- Mirrorballs.
We have mirrorballs in the middle of a dance floor because they reflect light, they are broken a million times and that's what makes them so shiny. We have people like that in society, they hang there and every time they break it entertains us. And when you shine a light on them it's this glittering, fantastic thing. But then a lot of the time when the spotlight isn't on them they're just still there up on a pedestal, but nobody's watching them.
Elvis Presley
- Birds That Don’t Have Legs.
Did you know there's a kind of bird that doesn't have any legs? So it can't land on nothing. It lives its whole life on the wing. When it gets tired it just spreads its wings and sleeps on the wind. If it ever does land, even but one time, so it dies.
