Has it really come to this?

I gotta let you go
I gotta let you go
no more sleepless nights

- Dominica, Let You Go

Used to be me. Now it's you.

anything that may desert you
so it cannot hurt you
you only have to look behind you
at who's underlined you

- Ladytron, Destroy Everything You Touch

One day it won't be

And she said
the pain of being together
is more than being apart

- Brakes, No Return

So cruel

between the horses of love and lust
we are trampled
underfoot

- U2, So Cruel

 

Waiting in the dark

I suffocate
I breathe in dirt
and nowhere shines
but desolate

And drab the hours
all spent on killing time again
all waiting for the rain

- The Cure, Prayers For Rain

 

I know that time is against us but

I don’t wanna have to go
go go go on without you
without you

- Honeyblood, Killer Bangs

Nothing feels like this

And when we kiss
we speak as one
with a single breath
this world is gone

- New Order, Everyone Everywhere

Forgive me

Hey Jo sorry I hurt you
 but they say love is a virtue don't they?

Tell me how to reach you

- The National, Sea Of Love

On letting go of regrets

Think about the future
Let the past unwind

- Dinosaur Jr., Back To Your Heart

Just realising that a lot of Stephin's songs are for narcissists

I'm as lonely as Narcissus gazing in his mirrored pond.

- Future Bible Heroes, I'm Lonely (And I Love It)

On being weird

I'm much weirder than you will ever be, Margot.
It's fine to be weird.

- Hannibal, Su-Zakana

On an ideal

oh my lover
don't you know
it's alright
you can love her
and you can love me
at the same time

 - PJ Harvey, Oh My Lover

On hope

When I wake
each morning
as the storm beats down
on me
and I know we belong together
only love
can set you free

- N-Trance, Only Love Can Set You Free

On becoming alcoholic

But a bottle of gin
is not like love

- The Magnetic Fields, Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin

On last year

And a long forgotten fairy tale
is in my eyes again
and I'm caught inside a dream world
where the colours are too intense
and nothing is making sense

- The Magnetic Fields, Long Forgotten Fairy Tale

Graffiti

This graffiti is fleeting human contact:
both of us lost, but for a moment
we're lost together.
I wonder who you are?

- xkcd

The seduction of a darkness visible

I stopped going to therapy
because I knew my therapist was right
and I wanted to keep being wrong.
I wanted to keep my bad habits
like charms on a bracelet.
I did not want to be brave.
I think I like my brain best
in a bar fight with my heart.
I think I like myself a little broken.
I’m ok if that makes me less loved.
I like poetry better than therapy anyway.
The poems never judge me
for healing wrong. 

- Clementine von Radics

I am not going to let this drag me under

Hold your breath
and count to ten
fall apart
and start again
start again
start again
start again

- Placebo, English Summer Rain

Somedays it's struggle just to keep your head above water

How did I get
to be drowning in this mess?

- The Chameleons, Don't Fall

On the being of Dasein towards death

So find out

who you are.

- The House Of Love, In A Room

On romance

hey you know, I don't do so well
cos I'm hung up
hung up
hung up
hung up
can't you tell

- Curve, Hung Up

On love

Boys only want love if it's torture.

- Taylor Swift, Blank Space

And I can't help but wonder

And how does she feel
when she's next to you?

Suede, The Asphalt World

It was

It's hard to look
right
at you baby

Carly Rae Jepsen, Call Me Maybe

Hold on

I don't know if I'm alive
dead
dying
or just a little jaded
someone throw me a line

- The Stone Roses, Tears

On resolutions

I aint gonna die in this hospital
You gotta take me back outside

- Conor Oberst, I Don't Want To Die (In The Hospital)