But I’m rising from the grave

                                                  Rising to be saved

                                           ask. about. rules. verses.

• ❛ Honey, please, try to love me. ❜
• ❛ I called your name ‘til the fever broke. ❜
• ❛ Don’t you ever tame your demons, but always keep them on a leash. ❜ 
• ❛ It looks ugly, but it’s clean. ❜
• ❛ Babe, there’s something tragic about you. ❜
• ❛ Innocence died screaming, honey, ask me I should know. ❜
• ❛ But I want it, it’s a crime that she’s not around most of the time. ❜
• ❛ Her fight and fury is fiery, oh but she loves like sleep to the freezing. ❜
• ❛ I prayed my mind be good to me. ❜
• ❛ With her sweetened breath, and her tongue so mean, she’s the angel of small death and the codeine scene. ❜
• ❛ It’s bloody and raw, but I swear it is sweet. ❜
• ❛ So tired trying to see from behind the red in my eyes, no better version of me I could pretend to be tonight. ❜
• ❛ Would things be easier if there was a right way? Honey, there is no right way. ❜
• ❛ I fall in love just a little, oh a little bit every day with someone new. ❜
• ❛ My lover’s got humor, she’s the giggle at a funeral. ❜
• ❛ There’s an art to life’s distractions. ❜
• ❛ I raised a stone to end his pain. ❜
• ❛ When I was a child, I heard voices… Some would sing and some would scream. ❜
• ❛ Cause with my mid-youth crisis all said and done, I need to be youthfully felt ‘cause, God, I never felt young. ❜
• ❛ We tried the world, good God, it wasn’t for us.  ❜
• ❛ I turned and ran to save a life I didn’t have. ❜
• ❛ But my peace has always depended on all the ashes in my wake. ❜
• ❛ I wake at the first cringe of morning, and my heart’s already sinned. ❜
• ❛ Always a well dressed fraud, who wouldn’t spare the rod. Never for me. ❜
• ❛ I was born sick, but I love it. Command me to be well. ❜
• ❛ Freshly disowned in some frozen devotion, no more alone or myself could I be. ❜
• ❛ I clutched my life, and wished it kept. My dearest love, I’m not done yet. ❜
• ❛ No shortage of sordid, no protest from me. ❜
• ❛ I have never known peace like the damp grass that yields to me. ❜
• ❛ Two corpses we were, two corpses I saw. ❜
• ❛ All that I’ve been taught, and every word I’ve got, is foreign to me. ❜
• ❛ I have never known hunger like these insects that feast on me. ❜
• ❛ You’ve done me wrong for a long, long time. But after all you’ve done I never changed my mind. ❜
• ❛ Honey, you know that’s my love bursting loud from inside. ❜
• ❛ I’ll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife. ❜
• ❛ The purest expression of grief. ❜
• ❛ Lord, it’d be great to find a place we could escape sometime. ❜
• ❛ Idealism sits in prison, chivalry fell on its sword. ❜
• ❛ I found something in the woods somewhere. ❜
• ❛ Babe, there’s something broken about this, but I might be hoping about this. ❜

“Is There a God?” “I’m a homicidal maniac, they look just like everyone else.” “Is this made from real lemons?” “I only like all-natural foods and beverages, organically grown, with no preservatives.” “Are they made from real Girl Scouts?” “We gladly feast on those who would subdue us.” “Not just pretty words.” “Are they dead?” “Does it matter?” “I’m going to electrocute him.” “Last night you were unhinged.” “You were like some desperate, howling demon. ” “You frightened me.” “Do it again!” “How long has it been since we’ve waltzed?” “Nobody gets out of the Bermuda Triangle, not even for a vacation.“  “Everyone knows that.” “The human spirit, it is a hard thing to kill.” “Have you spoken to her/his parents?”  "I would die for her/him. I would kill for her/him. Either way, what bliss.“ “Don’t torture yourself, ______. That’s my job.” “Remember that fateful night?” “To live without you, only that would be torture.” “A day alone, only that would be death.” “You were so beautiful. Pale and mysterious. No one even looked at the corpse.” “It’s so sweet. He/she looks just like a little entrée.” “This is all so humiliating. Why did I marry you?” “Haven’t you ever slaughtered anyone?”

Make them cry

• “I never loved you.”
• “You’re the reason they’re dead!”
• “It’s all your fault!”
• “Who could ever love you…?”
• “You’re so stupid. So weak.”
• “Just go away. I don’t want you here.”

Blackmail them

• “Who would’ve thought a sweet thing like you would have such a secret?”
• “I’ll tell everyone. Scream so loud the country will hear.”
• “I have a friend with a radio station, you know. Broadcast it all over the city.”
• “If you want this back, you’ll do whatever I say!”
• “Be a good little slave, you don’t want your secret out, do you?”
• “I know everything. I can ruin you.”
• “Beg me, and I might consider keeping my mouth shut.”

Interrogate them

• “Sing, birdie.”
• “I know exactly how to make you talk.”
• “You know some fascinating things, don’t you?”
• “I’ll use your greatest weaknesses against you, and you know I know them all.”
• “I have means of extracting information from you.”
• “I might play with you a little longer after you’ve talked. You’re too cute.”
• “You’re tough. But I’ll break you.”

Yell at them

• “You idiot! You dumbass! You- you fucking moron!”
• “You’re absolutely useless, aren’t you?!”
• “What the fuck have you done this time!”
• “You don’t care about anyone but yourself!”
• “You’re not human! You’re a monster!”
• “You’re a disgusting little rat!”
• “You’ve fucked up for the last time!”

Physically hurt them

• “What, can’t take a punch?”
• “I’ll kill you!”
• “It’s only a scratch, asshole!”
• “Don’t move, or I’ll shoot you!”
• “I’ll slit your damn throat!”
• “Kiss my shoes or I’ll stomp your head in half.”
• “I didn’t mean to draw blood, but oh well.”
• “That’s going to bruise.”

Torture them… gently

• “You want some of this cake? C’moooon, beg for it!”
• “Guess what? SURPRISE ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE!”
• “Tickle-tickle-tickle! Kitchy kitchy koo!”
• “Whaaaat? Is this yours? You can’t have it back, it’s mine now!”
• “I’ll stop singing when hell freezes over!”
• “Get in the locker, shorty!”
• “Annoying? Me? Annoying?”