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

Lonely

Who else is going to love someone like me that's marked for death?
Who else is going to be with me when I breathe it all?
Who else would take your place and hold and keep me safe?
Who else would ever stay?

- Emma Ruth Rundle, Marked For Death

Hold on

there's only so much letting go
you can ask someone to do
so I keep you by my side
I will not give you to the tide

- Big Thief, Masterpiece

Still here, with my memories

Hold on
to the night
their will be no shame

- Erasure, Always

On memories

I don't want another rock
to hang about my neck
you see bejewelled
I see bedecked
in dead stars

- Alison Moyet, Other

Night falls

Do you miss me, miss me, darling?
God knows I'm missing you
I can see two worlds colliding
That's what the sickness brought me to

- Mark Lanegan,  Nocturne

Losing control

Your mind
Is not your own

- Robert Palmer, Addicted To Love

I wait

a year goes by
she doesn't

- The Magnetic Fields, If You Don't Cry

Alone

I can't
She said
I'd save you
But I can't love

- Chelsea Wolfe, 16 Psyche

Home is in your arms

Just give me this one night
Just one night
to feel
Like I might be
on the right path
The path that takes me home
Wise enough to know myself...

- Everything, Everything No Reptiles

Fuck the pain away

People like you fuck people like me
In order to avoid agony
People like you fuck people like me
In order to avoid suffering

- Hole, Samantha

Heaven, how long?

Can't you see what you've done
to my heart
and soul
It's such a wasteland now

- Interpol, Slow Hands

On hope

So don't go dark on me
It's all alright
If I'm gonna get back to you someday
I'll need your light

- The National, Walk It Back

We're only here for a while, and it's all, all a joke

From far, from eve and morning
And yon twelve winded sky,
The stuff of life to knit me
Blew hither; here am I.

Now - for a breath I tarry
Nor yet disperse apart -
Take my hand quick and tell me,
What have you in your heart.

Speak now, and I will answer;
How shall I help you, say;
Ere to the wind's twelve quarters
I take my endless way.

- A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad