DayOldTeaLor

I look in people's windows
in case you're at their table
What if your eyes looked and met mine
one more time

"Having a heart is heavy, far too heavy for some of us"

It was one drink after another
Caught in politics and gender roles
And you're not sure and I don't know

"Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another."

"I am the vampire of my own heart,
one of the great outcasts
condemned to eternal laughter
who can no longer smile.
Am I dead?
I must be dead."

"We are more alike than we are unalike."
"That truth is why we can all have empathy, why we can all be stirred when the caged bird sings"

"You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise"

"Every decent friendship comes with a drop of hatred. But that hatred is like honey in the tea. It makes it addictive"

Love left me like this and I don't want to exist
So take me to Florida

You wanting me tonight
feels impossible
But it's coming down, no sound,
it's all around
Like snow on the beach

"He might as well plant an oak in a flower-pot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares"

"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies"

"The quickest way to make an attractive man ugly was to give him too much to drink"

The burgundy on my t-shirt when you splashed your wine into me
And how the blood rushed into my cheeks, so scarlet

"After all, people with a herd instinct hold mediocrity in high esteem. They praise it as having great value. They believe they are strong because they are the majority"

but he leaves you out like a penny in the rain
oh, 'cause it's not his price to pay
it's not his price to pay

"People are rotten everywhere you go. They're no good. You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let's see how good he is when he can do whatever he wants."

you see, the pendulum swings
oh, the chaos it brings
leads the caged beast to do the most curious things

"The weak can overcome the strong if the weak persist. Persisting isn't always safe, but it's often necessary"

Can't not think of all the cost
And the things that will be lost
Oh, can we just get a pause
To be certain we'll be tall again

"Abusers do not need to be, and rarely are, cackling maniacs. They just need to want something and not care how they get it"

"Yes. But my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely"

Now I want to sell my house and set fire to all my clothes
And hire a priest to come and exorcise my demons
Even if I die screaming
And I hope you hear it

"People did not care, except for maybe one minute. It was not their fault, most just could not really care past their own experiences"

"She worries that she, too, will go to bed with a Fargo boy and wake up five years later, pregnant with a third kid, watching television in threadbare Uggs."

I wake in the night, I pace like a ghost
The room is on fire, invisible smoke

"When she lay there on the ground
She dreamed of time machines and revenge
And a love that was really something
Not just the idea of something."

Takin' your time in the tangerine
Neon light, this is luxury

"We would all like to believe that we came from nowhere but ourselves, every gesture is our own. But then we find we belong to the history and fate of a long line of beings that also may have wished to be free"

"God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear"