Never

No

You're never gonna feel complete

 
No

You're never gonna be released

- Low, Days Like These

Protect me from memory

 

Maybe we're victims of fate
Remember when we'd celebrate?
We'd drink and get high until late
And now we're all alone

Wedding bells ain't gonna chime
With both of us guilty of crime
And both of us sentenced to time
And now we're all alone

- Placebo, Protect Me From What I Want

Still breathing, for what it's worth

When I'm buried in the ground
I won't be able to make your birthday drinks but I will still feel guilty
You see, when the air warms up like this
It brings every single memory of you back and it makes me so sick, I can't breathe
Except I am still breathing, aren't I?
Sometimes I think that's the problem

- Self Esteem, I Do This All The Time

Always

If I get one love

only get one love

then I choose you

then I choose you

- Estrons, Cameras

 

The only woman to me

She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes
And she can ruin your faith with her casual lies
And she only reveals what she wants you to see
She hides like a child but she's always a woman to me

- Billy Joel, She's Always A Woman

I've been waiting such a long time

And I can't tell you that I'm wasted
And I can't tell you that I'm wasted on you
And I think about your body
How it's wasting

how it's wasting
And I'm wasted telling jokes to you
'Cause you can't hear me

you can't hear me
You can't hear a word I'm saying
And you're not here
But your body is getting closer every day

 
And I wade

 

Until I'm knee deep in water, I can't breathe
And I can never tеll you that I've had enough
And I can nevеr make it stop
And I can't tell you that I'm wasted on you

 

So I wade deeper
Plunge my head into the water
Sink into it, rise above it
Climb into the sky, I love it
I love it

 

Do you ever think about
Who you were then and who you are now?

 

And I miss you but I'll never ever,

ever

ever

ever.... 

- Porridge Radio, 7 Seconds

Scream into the void

You said

this would be
The last time you'd ever hurt me
You said

this would be the last time I'd ever cry
Last time

I didn't know
How was I supposed to know
This time

I found it
I know how to scream

I don't owe you anything
I'm not part of you
You can't take away everything
I'm not part of you

- Sleater-Kinney, The Last Song

 

History doesn't teach; it makes dumb

 I guess maybe it was naive, but I thought that together we could let go of all that baggage.

- Lisa, House Of Cards, ch. 32

Warnings

But you let me in and
You will regret it
'Cause I'm only looking
For my skewed reflection in you

- Soccer Mommy, Royal Screw Up

Winter's colder, memories smoulder

I'm so sad
At how little joy I realised within my time with my ex guy
Before these statues arrived

 

Romance is dead and done
And it hits between the eyes

on this side
The grass is dead and barren
And it hurts between my thighs 

on this side

 

See me here
Meet me here
I don't care
If it's not repeated

 

I want to know who you are
For every second we outrun the moon and dread the sun come up
I want to know who you are
So I don't have to check my stuff's still here when you're gone
I want to know who you are
I want to know who you were

 

 

 

 

- Ex:Re, Romance

It's been so long

if I could cry in front of a crowd 

and feel comfortable 

I wanna know how it feels

to look someone in the eyes 

as I'm dancing

- Patricia Lalor, Self Aware

Since you been gone

Since you been gone

since you been gone

I'm out of my head

can't take it

 - Rainbow, Since You Been Gone

And all you'd ever hear me say
Is how I pictured me with you
That's all you'd ever hear me say

But since you been gone
I can breathe for the first time
I'm so moving on

yeah yeah
Thanks to you

now I get

I get what I want
Since you been gone

- Kelly Clarkson, Since U Been Gone

Marked

Stains on the mattress

Stains on the memory

- The Cure, Disintegration (misquote)

On sharing existence

He had created his share of our problems, by pushing me too hard, by wanting too much, by trying to see something in me that didn't exist. But I could have met him partway and retained my sovereignty. And now it was too late.

- Jeff Vandermeer, Annihilation

All the colours that you hide

you don't lie to me
and for all of your poison
I enjoy your company 
all the colours that you hide 
behind
your mouth 
like poetry

.....

when I was small

long long before I knew you
I knew how to stand tall
I knew how to breathe without you

and I spoke to the dead 

before I learned how to fear them

they sat with me on my bed 

watched me as I slept and

I felt safe and sound
A leader with my confidence,
I cut the evil down 

with a sword of common sense and
I took care of things 

I loved with all my heart
What happened to these things? 

It's like I woke up in my future

- Haley Bonar, Woke Up In My Future

I adore you

After the run we've had
After the tears we've cried
And all those lonely nights
I still want you in my life
I see you in my mind
And now the sun don't shine
And I'm just getting by
So why can't you be mine?

- Goldie, I Adore You

Haunted, helpless, hopeless

I never will forget those nights
I thought it was a dream
remember how you made me crazy?
remember how I made you scream?

now I don't understand
what happened to our love
but babe I'm gonna get you back
I'm gonna show you what I'm made of

- Don Henley, Boys Of Summer

The weight

When I walk into a room
I do not light it up
Fuck

- The National, Demons

Is this it?

My friends keep telling me, "hey, life will go on"
Time will make sure I'll get over you
This silly game of love you play, you win only to lose

I'm spending my time 
Watching the days go by
Feeling so small, I stare at the wall
Hoping that you think of me too

- Roxette, Spending My Time 

Still me. Still missing you.

Hard to believe

 
That after all this time

 
That after all this I'm

 
Still me

- Built To Spill, Made-Up Dreams