How do we manage

I’m doing fine
Trying to derail my one track mind

- Lucy Dacus, Night Shift

Sister, oh sister

I wrote your name in dust on a truck
As it rolled out of town
Just in case my love for you
Might be found
I cried my tears in a mountain stream
They'll sting you one day
I called your name in a giant cave
It echoes to this day

The Verve, So Sister

Inside

black
like a nuclear bomb
you feel the pain
come

- Cherry Glazerr, Nuclear Bomb

And I wept for the future, and for the past

Mirror, mirror where's the crystal palace
But I only can see myself
Skating around the truth who I am
But I know, dad, the ice is getting thin

 

When you gonna make up your mind?
 
When you gonna love you as much as I do?

- Tori Amos, Winter

On pain

He did not want to forget his pain; he hugged it to him, learning what countless others had learned before him, that even the deepest pain concerning a beloved one is preferable to any surcease.

Robert Heinlein, The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag

Overwhelming

My heart is like the ocean
it gets in the way

- Tori Amos, Take To The Sky

On life as an addict

Understand this, it's not death that terrifies - it's life. Life is the horror, the unbearable living. We are suffering from life trauma... the miserable, shambling, boring, self-pitying lives we have fashioned for ourselves, alone, with shaking hands and tearful despair.

- AA Gill, Pour Me

Was there anything..?

I don't know where she's living
All I've got is a card
A picture of her at the pyramids
A knife held to her heart

Was there anything I could do?

- The Go-Betweens, Was There Anything I Could Do?

In a state

your shame is never ending

just one psychological drama after another. 

you are guilty and how you ever entered into this life

God only knows 

- Erasure, Drama!

Is there an end?

Even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea

- Swinburne

Healthy living

What's the difference between Shaun Ryder and Jason Pierce? Probably around 3 hours extra sleep a night and a banana, an avocado and some tangerines.

- John Doran, Jolly Lad

Swallow

Time will pass

time will leave you all alone

- The Savings & Loan, Swallows

On what matters

You know I have about as much interest in money as I do Hummel figurines

- Holmes, Elementary, Season 2 episode 2.

Second anniversary of loss

a year goes by
she doesn't

The Magnetic Fields, If You Don't Cry

All I want is to drown in you

Will you spend your life with me
and stifle me
I know why the caged bird sings
I know why

- Tricky, Suffocated Love

So much brighter than the rest

Excuse me, sir, do you have a light?
I know that I can be dark
But that’s what makes us brighter than the rest
Who’d think a weight like this could make you feel blessed?
Or a lack of serotonin
That shakes your brain
Till nothing’s left to rearrange

- Haley Bonar, Called You Queen

Sister, I miss you

I love my sister so
She don't smother me...
Would you bury me?

- Smashing Pumpkins, Bury Me

The double edge

Extreme acts of cruelty
require a high level of empathy

Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier,
Hannibal S3 E10

I hope that she's happy

I asked my Louise

would she leave

and so cripple me

- Calexico & Iron & Wine, History Of Lovers

Pink frost in winter

What can I do if she dies?
What can I do if she's lost?
Just the thought fills my heart with pink frost

- The Chills, Pink Frost

Thinking/dreaming/hoping

She'll never forgive you but she won't let you go - oh no

Don't look back into the sun
You've cast your plans but you're on the run
And all the lies you said, who did you save?
But when they played that song at the Death Disco
It started fast - but it ends so slow
And all the time it just reminded me of you....

- The Libertines, Don't Look Back In To The Sun