• I’m rough on the surface, but you cut through like a knife
• If it was an open-shut case I never would have known from the look on your face 
• Lost in your current like a priceless wine 
• The more that you say, the less I know 
• Wherever you stray, I follow 
• I’m begging for you to take my hand 
• I’m begging for you
• I can feel you sneakin’ in 
• There was one prize I’d cheat to win 
• They count me out time and time again 
• Anywhere else is hollow
• That’s my man 
• I come back stronger than a ‘90s trend 
• Wait for the signal, and I’ll meet you after dark 
• I’ll meet you after dark 
• Show me the places where the others gave you scars 
• This is an open-shut case 
• I should'a known from the look on your face 
• Hey, that’s my man 
• Yeah, that’s my man

• You booked the night train for a reason
• Your heart was glass, I dropped it 
• You told your family for a reason 
• You dropped my hand while dancing, left me out there standing 
• Love slipped beyond your reaches and I couldn’t give a reason 
• This dorm was once a madhouse
• Well, it’s made for me 
• Soon they’ll have the nerve to deck the halls that we once walked through 
• I never was ready so I watch you go 
• She would’ve made such a lovely bride, what a shame she’s fucked in the head
• Sometimes you just don’t know the answer til someone’s on their knees and asks you 
• You won’t remember all my champagne problems

• I don’t like a gold rush
• I don’t like that anyone would die to feel your touch 
• Everybody wants you 
• Everybody wonders what it would be like to love you 
• What must it be like to grow up that beautiful? 
• I can’t dare to dream about you anymore 
• My mind turns your life into folklore
• I won’t call you out on your contrarian shit 

• If I wanted to know who you were hanging with while I was gone, I would have asked you
• There’s an ache in you, put there by the ache in me 
• But if it’s all the same to you it’s the same to me 
• You could call me “babe” for the weekend 
• We could call it even 
• Remember how you watched me leave
• You can run, but only so far 
• And the road not taken looks real good now 
• Hear me out, we could just ride around 
• The road not taken looks real good now and it always leads to you in my hometown 
• I won’t ask you to wait if you don’t ask me to stay 
• I wonder about the only soul who can tell which smiles I’m fakin' 
• The heart I know I’m breakin’ is my own
• Even though I’m leavin’ and I’ll be yours for the weekend 
• ​'Tis the damn season

• I notice everything you do or don’t do
• You’re so much older and wiser 
• If it’s all in my head tell me now 
• Tell me I’ve got it wrong somehow 
• I know my love should be celebrated but you tolerate it 
• I take your indiscretions all in good fun 
• I made you my temple, my mural, my sky - now I’m begging for footnotes in the story of your life 
• I’m begging for footnotes in the story of your life 
• You assume I’m fine, but what would you do if I break free and leave us in ruins?
• Believe me, I could do it 

• He did it
• Her husband’s actin’ different, and it smells like infidelity 
• That ain’t my merlot on his mouth. That ain’t my jewelry on our joint account 
• I think I’m gonna call him out 
• No, there ain’t no doubt 
• I think he did it, but I just can’t prove it 
• No body, no crime
• I ain’t lettin’ up until the day I die 
• Good thing my daddy made me get a boating license when I was fifteen 
• I’ve cleaned enough houses to know how to cover up a scene 
• She was with me, dude 
• They think she did it, but they just can’t prove it 
• Good thing his mistress took out a big life insurance policy 
• I wasn’t lettin’ up until the day he died 

• I see this for what it is
• All the years I’ve given is just shit we’re dividin’ up 
• I can’t face reinvention 
• There’ll be happiness after you 
• There was happiness because of you 
• Haunted by the look in my eyes that would’ve loved you for a lifetime 
• Tell me, when did your winning smile begin to look like a smirk? 
• I hope she’ll be your beautiful fool, who takes my spot next to you
• No, I didn’t mean that 
• Sorry, I can’t see facts through all of my fury
• You haven’t met the new me yet 
• There’ll be happiness after me
• There was happiness because of me 
• I can’t make it go away by making you a villain 
• I pulled your body into mine every goddamn night, now I get fake niceties 
• No one teaches you what to do when a good man hurts you and you know you hurt him, too
• All you want from me now is the green light of forgiveness 
• After giving you the best I had, tell me what to give after that?
• All you want from me now is the green light of forgiveness. You haven’t met the new me yet and I think she’ll give you that

• Do you ever stop and think about me?
• A tiny screen’s the only place I see you now
• I got nothing but well-wishes for ya
• This place is the same as it ever was but you don’t like it that way 
• It’s never too late to come back to my side 
• You'rе a queen sellin’ dreams, sellin’ makeup and magazines 
• From you I’d buy anything 
• But are you still the same soul I met under the bleachers? 
• I guess I’ll never know 
• If you’re ever tired of being known for who you know, you’ll always know me.

• If I can’t relate to you anymore then who am I related to?
• And if this is the long haul how’d we get here so soon? 
• Did I close my fist around something delicate?
• Did I shatter you? 
• Sorry for not making you my centerfold 
• What’s a lifetime of achievement if I pushed you to the edge but you were too polite to leave me?
• Do you miss the rogue who coaxed you into paradise and left you there?
• Will you forgive my soul when you’re too wise to trust me and too old to care? 
• We were like the mall before the internet 
• Were you waiting at our old spot: in the tree line by the gold clock?
• Did I leave you hanging every single day? 
• When I got into the accident the sight that flashed before me was your face 

• Your touch brought forth an incandescent glow, tarnished but so grand
• I just sit here and wait, grieving for the living 
• My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand 
• My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand taking mine, but it’s been promised to another 
• Stop you putting roots in my dreamland 
• I wish to know the fatal flaw that makes you long to be magnificently cursed 
• Your opal eyes are all I wish to see 
• I’d live and die for moments that we stole 
• What would he do if he found us out? 
• Dare to sit and watch what we’ll become 
• It’s a goddamn blaze in the dark and you started it 
• It’s the goddamn fight of my life and you started it

• Dancin’ is a dangerous game
• I’m never gonna love again 
• I’ve got some tricks up my sleeve 
• Takes one to know one 
• Never wanted love, just a fancy car 
• You’re a cowboy like me 
• I’m telling all the rich folks anything they wanna hear 
• You’re a bandit like me 
• Never thought I’d meet you here 
• We could be the way forward and I know I’ll pay for it 
• The skeletons in both our closets plotted hard to fuck this up
• The old men that I’ve swindled really did believe I was the one 
• Now you hang from my lips like the Gardens of Babylon 
• Forever is the sweetest con

• I tried to pick my battles ‘til the battle picked me
• I was in the alley, surrounded on all sides 
• Long story short, it was a bad time 
• If the shoe fits, walk in it 'til your high heels break
• I clung to the nearest lips and long story short, it was the wrong guy 
• Now I’m all about you 
• Actually, I always felt I must look better in the rear view - missing me.
• If someone comes at us, this time, I’m ready 
• No more keepin’ score, now I just keep you warm 
• Past me, I wanna tell you not to get lost in these petty things 
• Your nemeses will defeat themselves before you get the chance to swing 
• He feels like home 
• Long story short, I survived

• Never be so kind you forget to be clever
• Never be so clever you forget to be kind
• If I didn’t know better I’d think you were talking to me now
• If I didn’t know better I’d think you were still around 
• You’re alive in my head 
• What died didn’t stay dead 
• You’re alive, so alive 
• Never be so polite you forget your power
• Nevеr wield such power you forget to be polite 
• I should’ve asked you questions 
• Should’ve kept every grocery store receipt cause every scrap of you would be taken from me 
• I know better but you’re still around 
• I still feel you all around

• It’s been a long time and seeing the shape of your name still spells out pain
• Yes, I’m doing better
• I don’t need your closure 
• Yes, I got your letter 
• Don’t treat me like some situation that needs to be handled 
• I’m fine with my spite and my tears, and my beers and my candles 
• I know I’m just a wrinkle in your new life 
• Staying friends would iron it out so nice 

• Gray November, I’ve been down since July
• I replay my footsteps on each stepping stone trying to find the one where I went wrong 
• I couldn’t be sure
• I had a feeling so peculiar that this pain would be for evermore 
• Guess I’m feeling unmoored 
• Can’t remember what I used to fight for 
• Can’t not think of all the cost and the things that will be lost 
• To be certain, we’ll be tall again 
• Is there a line that I could just go cross? 
• And when I was shipwrecked I thought of you 
• It was real enough to get me through 
• I dreamed of you 
• I swear you were there 
• I had a feeling so peculiar, this pain wouldn’t be for evermore

• Friends break up
• I’m right where you left me
• Help
• I’m still at the restaurant
• I swear you could hear a hair pin drop
• What a sad sight…
• I felt the moment stop
• They expected me to find perspective
• Everybody moved on, but I stayed there
• You left me no choice
• You left me no choice but to stay here forever
• Did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen?
• Time went on for everyone else
• Did you hear about the girl who lives in delusion?
• Breakups happen every day
• I was still the one you wanted
• If our love died young, I can’t bare witness
• If you ever think you got it wrong, I’m right where you left me

• He’s insisting that friends look at each other like that
• The words of a sister come back in whispers
• She’s a crook that was caught
• She was not in fact what she seemed
• You know when it’s time to go
• Twenty years at that job, then the boss of the son gets the spot….
• Keeping it how it was will only break hearts worse
• Sometimes giving up is the strong thing
• Sometimes walking out is the one thing that will find you the right thing
• Sometimes to run is the brave thing
• I gave my all
• He gave me nothing at all
• He’s got my past frozen behind glass but I’ve got me
• You will know in your soul that it’s time to go

• “  come  back.  come  back  to  me.  ”
• “  it  was  real  for  me.  ”
• “  i’ll  fight  the  bad  dreams  off  if  they  come  to  get  you.  ”
• “  flowers  grow  back  even  after  the  harshest  of  winters.  you  will  too.  ”
• “  i  won’t  leave  you  here  !  ”
• “  we’re  in  this  together.  ”
• “  i  don’t  need  your  help.  not  anymore.  ”
• “  you  left  me  to  die  !  ”
• “  what  if  i  never  fall  in  love  again  ?  ”
• “  we  can’t  keep  doing  this.  ”
• “  when  were  you  going  to  tell  me  about  this  ?  ”
• “  you  need  to  stay  with  me  !  don’t  close  your  eyes  okay  ?  ”
• “  my  duty  must  come  before  everything  else.  you  knew  this.  ”
• “  stay  away  from  me  !  i  don’t  want  to  see  you  again  !  ”
• “  there’s  nothing  you  can  do  that  will  fix  this.  ”
• “  sometimes  it  feels  like  the  world  is  crumbling  beneath  my  feet.  ”
• “  now  is  not  the  time  for  goodbyes.  now  is  the  time  to  fight.  ”
• “ trust  no  one.  not  even  me.  you  understand  ?  ”
• “  i’m  fine.  i  can  walk  on  my  own.  ”
• “  please,  just  look  at  me.  ”
• “  you  and  i  are  no  heroes.  ”
• “  you  think  you  can  just  waltz  back  in  here  and  pretend  everything  is  okay  ?  ”
• “  those  are  the  words  of  a  coward  !  ”
• “  you  can’t  save  everyone.  ”
• “  you’re  better  off  without  me.  ”
• “  i  trusted  you  !  ”
• “  you  deserve  more  than  i  can  give  you.  ”
• “  please,  don’t  hurt  me  again.  ”
• “  you  would  never  understand  the  pain  you  put  me  through.  ”
• “  did  you  ever  love  me  ?  or  were  those  just  words  you  said  ?  ”
• “  haven’t  you  done  enough  today  ?  ”

I really wanted to impress you today. And now I feel like I’m ruining your wedding.

I think you’re giving yourself a lot of credit. My wedding was already ruined. But for what it’s worth, I am continuously impressed by you.

• “Can’t avoid it any longer. It’s time you made a choice.”
• “This isn’t going to end the way you want it to.”
• “This ends in this room right now.”
• “You’d give all this up for a little money?”
• “It’ll take me a while to straighten things out, but when I do, I’ll be home… if you’ll have me.”
• “You want me to believe you won’t betray your men? Your friends? All men betray when it suits them. And right now I’d say it’d fucking suit you.”
• “First day as captain, is it?”
• “I will not let those consequences touch you. I will stand in between you and them, and I will protect you.”
• “You’re right about me. About what I am.”
• “You cannot imagine what I’ve sacrificed to gain this captaincy.”
• “We aren’t criminals to them. We aren’t even men. We’re animals.”
• “Seems quite a bit has transpired since last we were in business together.”
• “How exactly did you plan on covering this up?”
• “These will not fit you, but they are clean.”
• “If I’m not what I was when I was born, and I ain’t what I’ve become instead… what the fuck am I?”
• “For as long as she desires, this place will be a safe place for her.”
• “There is no ‘we.’ We stopped being a thing of any relevance about an hour ago.”
• “Where else would you wake up in the morning and matter? You walk out on this, and where the fuck are you going?”
• “Some fucking day, huh?”
• “Look, I wasn’t trying to make any trouble, alright?”
• “You will turn on absolutely anyone, won’t you?”
• “I know how you feel. Not that long ago, I was lost. Without friends. Without identity.”
• “There is always a life, there is always a future, as long as one is willing to build it for themselves.”
• “I don’t suppose you’d mind sharing that bottle?”
• “I don’t mean to be blunt, but what the fuck are you doing?”
• “I have done what I’ve done and I will live with it. But do not for a moment believe that that defines me. I will not be that person.”
• “While I knew you once, called you friends once, I cannot fathom how those people I knew turned into you.”
• “Ask me, then. Anything you want to know. I will be truthful.”
• “You became the captain of a pirate crew in four months?”
• “If you’re going to blame anyone for it, please, blame me.”
• “I cannot stand before you and claim to be without sin.”
• “I shouldn’t have left the way I did, without telling you.”
• “You have no fucking idea what’s going on here, do you?”
• “There is nothing imagined about the threat we face, I assure you.”
• “I wish there were another way, but I have given it great thought and I cannot find it.”
• “Perhaps this is an opportunity for us all to find a little forgiveness.”
• “You destroyed our lives!”
• “ Why did you betray those closest to you all those years ago? Was it really so small and vile as a bribe?”
• “Even in this moment, alone with a condemned man, you are unable to speak the truth.”
• “How much money can I have on hand if I needed it?”
• “You saved me from something awful. And I owe you my life for it.”
• “You and I are gonna be partners ‘til they put us in the fucking ground. As long as you feel the same.”
• “Everyone is a monster to someone. Since you are so convinced that I am yours, I will be it.”
• “I gave you an order. What is your fucking problem?”
• “Would you like me to clear the room?”
• “I don’t want this.”
• “The crew will look after you. Don’t worry about that.”
• “The more those men need you, the more you need them.”