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*   𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐑  𝐁𝐘  𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐈𝐀  𝐑𝐎𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐎  .      lyric starters from sour, change pronouns as needed.

𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐥 .

❛   i  want  it  to  be ,  like ,  messy .  ❜ ❛   i’m  so  insecure .  ❜ ❛   i’m  so  caught  up  in  the  news  of  who  likes  me  and  who  hates  you .  ❜ ❛   they’d  all  be  so  disappointed .  ❜ ❛   where’s  my  fucking  teenage  dream ?  ❜ ❛   i  don't  stick  up  for  myself .  ❜ ❛   i'm  anxious  and  nothing  can  help .  ❜ ❛   i  wish  people  liked  me  more .  ❜ ❛   all  i  did  was  try  my  best .  ❜ ❛   this  the  kind  of  thanks  i  get ?  ❜ ❛   i  wish  i  could  disappear .  ❜ ❛   god ,  it’s  brutal  out  here .  ❜ ❛   i  feel  like  no  one  wants  me .  ❜ ❛   i  only  have  two  real  friends .  ❜

𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫 .

❛   i  played  dumb  but  i  always  knew .  ❜ ❛   i  kept  quiet  so  i  could  keep  you .  ❜ ❛   ain’t  it  funny  how  you  said  you  were  friends ?  ❜ ❛   you  betrayed  me .  ❜ ❛   i  know  that  you’ll  never  feel  sorry .  ❜ ❛   loved  you  at  your  worst  but  that  didn’t  matter .  ❜ ❛   but  you’re  still  a  traitor .  ❜ ❛   there’s  no  damn  way  that  you  could  fall  in  love  with  somebody  that  quickly .  ❜ ❛   and  you  told  me  i  was  paranoid .  ❜ ❛   i  wish  that  you  had  thought  this  through  before  i  went  and  fell  in  love  with  you .  ❜

𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 .

❛   i  got  my  driver's  license  last  week .  ❜ ❛   she’s  everything  i’m  insecure  about .  ❜ ❛   how  could  i  ever  love  someone  else ?  ❜ ❛   i  know  we  weren’t  perfect  but  i’ve  never  felt  this  way  for  no  one .  ❜ ❛   i  just  can’t  imagine  how  you  could  be  so  okay  now  that  i’m  gone .  ❜ ❛   all  my  friends  are  tired  of  hearing  how  much  i  miss  you .  ❜ ❛   i  kinda  feel  sorry  for  them .  ❜ ❛   they’ll  never  know  you  the  way  that  i  do .  ❜ ❛   i  guess  you  didn’t  mean  what  you  wrote  in  that  song  about  me .  ❜ ❛   i  still  see  your  face  in  the  white  cars .  ❜ ❛   can’t  drive  past  the  places  we  used  to  go  to .  ❜ ❛   i  still  fuckin’  love  you .  ❜ ❛   i  still  hear  your  voice  in  the  traffic .  ❜ ❛   you  said  forever .  ❜ ❛   now  i  drive  alone  past  your  street .  ❜

𝟏 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝, 𝟑 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 .

❛   i  called  you  on  the  phone  today .  ❜ ❛   all  i  did  was  speak  normally .  ❜ ❛   somehow  i  still  struck  a  nerve .  ❜ ❛   you  got  me  fucked  up  in  the  head .  ❜ ❛   never  doubted  myself  so  much .  ❜ ❛   like  am  i  pretty ?  ❜ ❛   i  hate  that  i  give  you  power  over  that  kinda  stuff .  ❜ ❛   it’s  always  one  step  forward  and  three  steps  back .  ❜ ❛   i’m  the  love  of  your  life  until  i  make  you  mad .  ❜ ❛   do  you  love  me ,  want  me ,  hate  me ?  ❜ ❛   no,  i  don’t  understand .  ❜ ❛   maybe  in  some  masochistic  way  i  kind  of  find  it  all  exciting .  ❜ ❛   which  lover  will  i  get  today ?  ❜ ❛   will  you  walk  me  to  the  door  or  send  me  home  crying ?  ❜ ❛   did  i  say  something  wrong ?  ❜ ❛   did  i  do  something  wrong ?  ❜ ❛   maybe  this  is  all  your  fault  instead .  ❜ ❛   i’d  leave  you,  but  the  rollercoaster’s  all  i’ve  ever  had .  ❜

𝐝𝐞𝐣𝐚 𝐯𝐮 .

❛   i  bet  she’s  braggin’  to  all  her  friends .  ❜ ❛   so  when  you  gonna  tell  her  that  we  did  that ,  too ?  ❜ ❛   she  thinks  it’s  special,  but  it’s  all  reused .  ❜ ❛   do  you  call  her ,  almost  say  my  name ?  ❜ ❛   that  was  our  place .  ❜ ❛   i  found  it  first .  ❜ ❛   do  you  get  déjà  vu ?  ❜ ❛   let’s  be  honest ,  we  kinda  do  sound  the  same .  ❜ ❛   i  hate  to  think  that  i  was  just  your  type .  ❜ ❛   that  was  the  show  we  talked  about .  ❜ ❛   don’t  act  like  we  didn’t  do  that  shit ,  too .  ❜ ❛   a  different  girl  now,  but  there’s  nothing  new .  ❜

𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝟒 𝐮 .

❛   well ,  good  for  you .  ❜ ❛   i  guess  you  moved  on  really  easily .  ❜ ❛   remember  when  you  said  that  you  wanted  to  give  me  the  world ?  ❜ ❛   you  look  happy  and  healthy .  ❜ ❛   not  me ,  if  you  ever  cared  to  ask .  ❜ ❛   you’re  doin’  great  out  there  without  me .  ❜ ❛   god ,  i  wish  that  i  could  do  that .  ❜ ❛   i’ve  lost  my  mind .  ❜ ❛   i’ve  spent  the  night  cryin’  on  the  floor  of  my  bathroom .  ❜ ❛   you’re  so  unaffected .  ❜ ❛   i  really  don’t  get  it .  ❜ ❛   i  guess  you’re  gettin’  everything  you  want .  ❜ ❛   it’s  like  we  never  even  happened .  ❜ ❛   what  the  fuck  is  up  with  that ?  ❜ ❛   it’s  like  you  never  even  met  me .  ❜ ❛   remember  when  you  swore  to  god  i  was  the  only  person  who  ever  got  you ?  ❜ ❛   you  will  never  have  to  hurt  the  way  you  know  that  i  do .  ❜ ❛   maybe  i’m  too  emotional .  ❜ ❛   your  apathy’s  like  a  wound  in  salt .  ❜ ❛   maybe  you  never  cared  at  all .  ❜

𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 .

❛   ‘cause  i  thought  you’d  like  me  more .  ❜ ❛   tried  so  hard  to  be  everything  that  you liked .  ❜ ❛   stupid ,  emotional ,  obsessive  little  me .  ❜ ❛   i  knew  from  the  start  this  is  exactly  how  you’d  leave .  ❜ ❛   the  nеxt  second,  you  were  gone .  ❜ ❛   you  left  me  there  crying .  ❜ ❛   you  always  say  i’m  never  satisfied .  ❜ ❛   but  i  don’t  think  that’s  true .  ❜ ❛   all  i  ever  wanted  was  to  be  enough  for  you .  ❜ ❛   maybe  i’m  just  not  as  interesting .  ❜ ❛   you  couldn’t  have  cared  less  about  someone  who  loved  you  more .  ❜ ❛   i’d  say  you  broke  my  heart .  ❜ ❛   but  you  broke  much  more  than  that .  ❜ ❛   now  i  don’t  want  your  sympathy .  ❜ ❛   i  just  want  myself  back .  ❜ ❛   don’t  you  think  i  loved  you  too  much  to  be  used  and  discarded ?  ❜ ❛   don’t  you  think  i  loved  you  too  much  to  think  i  deserve  nothing ?  ❜ ❛   don’t  tell  me  you’re  sorry .  ❜ ❛   feel  sorry  for  yourself .  ❜ ❛   someday  i’ll  be  everything  to  somebody  else .  ❜ ❛   you’ll  be  the  one  who’s  crying .  ❜ ❛   i  don’t  think  anything  could  ever  be  enough  for  you .  ❜

𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐫 .

❛   i  thought  my  heart  was  detached .  ❜ ❛   does  she  mean  you  forgot  about  me ?  ❜ ❛   i  hope  you’re  happy  but  not  like  how  you  were  with  me .  ❜ ❛   i’m  selfish,  i  know  .  ❜ ❛   i  hope  you’re  happy .  ❜ ❛   but  don’t  be  happier .  ❜ ❛   an  eternal  love  bullshit  you  know  you’ll  never  mean .  ❜ ❛   now  i’m  pickin’  her  apart .  ❜ ❛   i  wish  you  all  the  best ,  really .  ❜ ❛   i  hope  you’re  happy,  but  don’t  be  happier .  ❜

𝐣𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐲, 𝐣𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐲 .

❛   i  kinda  wanna  throw  my  phone  across  the  room .  ❜ ❛   wish  i  didn’t  care .  ❜ ❛   i  know  their  beauty’s  not  my  lack .  ❜ ❛   It  feels  like  that  weight  is  on  my  back .  ❜ ❛   i  can’t  let  it  go .  ❜ ❛   comparison  is  killing  me  slowly .  ❜ ❛   i  think  i  think  too  much .  ❜ ❛   i’m  so  sick  of  myself .  ❜ ❛   i’d  rather  be  anyone  else .  ❜ ❛   my  jealousy  started  following  me .  ❜ ❛   i  see  everyone  getting  all  the  things  i  want .  ❜ ❛   i’m  happy  for  them,  but  then  again,  i’m  not .  ❜ ❛   i  can’t  stand  it .  ❜ ❛   oh  god ,  i  sound  crazy .  ❜ ❛   their  win  is  not  my  loss .  ❜ ❛   i  can’t  help  getting  caught  up  in  it  all .  ❜ ❛   all  your  friends  are  so  cool .  ❜ ❛   yeah,  you’re  living  the  life .  ❜ ❛   i  wanna  be  you  so  bad .  ❜ ❛   i  don’t  even  know  you .  ❜ ❛   all  i  see  is  what  i  should  be .  ❜

𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 .

❛   know  that  i  loved  you  so  bad .  ❜ ❛   i  let  you  treat  me  like  that .  ❜ ❛   i  was  your  willing  accomplice .  ❜ ❛   i  watched  as  you  fled  the  scene .  ❜ ❛   the  things  i  did  just  so  i  could  call  you  mine .  ❜ ❛   i  hope  i  was  your  favorite  crime .  ❜ ❛   you  used  me  as  an  alibi .  ❜ ❛   i  crossed  my  heart  as  you  crossed  the  line .  ❜ ❛   i  defended  you  to  all  my  friends .  ❜ ❛   you  know  that  i’d  do  it  all  again .  ❜ ❛   it’s  bittersweet  to  think  about  the  damage  that  we’d  do .  ❜ ❛   i  was  doin’  it  with  you .  ❜ ❛   i  say  that  i  hate  you  with  a  smile  on  my  face .  ❜ ❛   look  what  we  became .  ❜

𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐤 .

❛   somehow  we  fell  out  of  touch .  ❜ ❛   hope  he  took  his  bad  deal  and  made  a  royal  flush .  ❜ ❛   don’t  know  if  i’ll  see  you  again  someday .  ❜ ❛   i  hope  that  you’re  okay .  ❜ ❛   we  don’t  talk  much .  ❜ ❛   i  just  gotta  say  i  miss  you .  ❜ ❛   address  the  letters  to  the  holes  in  my  butterfly  wings .  ❜ ❛   nothing’s  forever .  ❜ ❛   nothing’s  as  good  as  it  seems .  ❜ ❛   i  hope  you  know  how  proud  i  am  you  were  created .  ❜ ❛   i  hope  that  you’re  happier  today .  ❜

Quotes taken from Black Sails season 4:

❝ If it makes you feel any better, I haven’t considered killing you in months. ❞

❝ You and I have willed our men through unthinkable things to get this far. Why not one more? ❞

❝ We are emotional beings, after all, and rhetoric is the fuel that feeds the fire. ❞

❝ Today, we reclaim what is ours. And we seek retribution for what was taken from us. ❞

❝ Revenge is a powerful motivator, undoubtedly. ❞

❝ If I am to play the role, I ought to make some effort to look the part. ❞

❝ The world is changing so rapidly and we with it. I fear the day will soon come when we will no longer recognize either. ❞

❝ We are who we are. Nothing so important changes so quickly. ❞

❝ There’ll be debts to repay after today. ❞

❝ To elevate one of us over the other, even as a fiction, seems to me to be tempting fate in a most dangerous way. ❞

❝ When a man first needs you and thereafter calls you a friend, a little suspicion is a healthy thing. ❞

❝ I don’t believe you need him to be the man you are. ❞

❝ I was always told that you were the one without fear. Was I misinformed? ❞

❝ It ain’t fear to want to do a hard thing smart. ❞

❝ We fight an enemy here determined to see all of civilization collapse. The only thing standing between them and their goal is you and I, and no one else seems willing to lift a finger to help. ❞

❝ The only man among you I trusted is dead. ❞

❝ I’m asking you… if this war died with him. ❞

❝ I beg your pardon, but have I not proved to you my friendship? ❞

❝ This is now an island of true friends and mortal enemies and nothing in between. ❞

❝ I have become so easily set aside, have I? ❞

❝ There is an unthinkable victory within our reach, and I will see this through by whatever means I have at my disposal. ❞

❝ My word will govern. ❞

❝ You think that little of me that I care so much how I’m seen in his eyes, I’d be willing to lose my life over it? ❞

❝ I ain’t here to prove anything! ❞

❝ I ain’t here to figure out who I am. ❞

❝ What happens when those motives start demanding their own ends? And this thing we’re all a part of starts splitting right down the middle? ❞

❝ I did all of it, contorted myself into the role, mutilated myself so that it would fit because I believed as long as you believed I was your partner, it didn’t matter what anyone else believed. ❞

❝ I don’t want to be protected. I don’t want it. ❞

❝ You are not a compromise to me. ❞

❝ I do not regret what I did, no matter the consequences. And I didn’t want you to have any reason to think that I did. ❞

❝ I gave you a life, and you repaid me by conspiring with my enemies. ❞

❝ This will all pass soon enough… if we let it. ❞

❝ Had I not stepped in, who knows how destructive that could have become for everyone? ❞

❝ What I do object to, however, is spectacle, certain to increase defiance and anger rather than soothe it. ❞

❝ I’m no one. From nowhere. Belonging to nothing. I’m a wretch like you. ❞

❝ I’m the reason grown men lie awake at night. ❞

❝ Only a fool would give his life to earn the admiration of a corpse. ❞

❝ So big a name for so small a man. ❞

❝ I am tired of this. This thing that perpetuates itself with anger and bluster and blood. I do not want to be your friend. ❞

❝ What am I… if I spend my days pleading for a return to civility and then do dark things under the cover of night? ❞

❝ You will be gone, but you will live. ❞

❝ What I want is for all of this to end. For it to end, you must end.  ❞

❝ There isn’t a good man among them. Not anymore. Some of them may have been, before all this. Some of them may be again on the other side of it. But right now, good men are not what the moment requires. Right now, the time calls for dark men… to do dark things. ❞

❝ The empire survives in part because we believe its survival to be inevitable. But it isn’t. ❞

❝ Too much sanity may be madness, and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. ❞

❝ These men would turn on you in a blink of an eye. Why would you go to such lengths to protect them? ❞

❝ You think you can control him. And by the time you realize he has been controlling you, it is going to be too late. ❞

❝ All you are doing is antagonizing them. And who is that serving? ❞

❝ End this quietly and easily and definitively. ❞

❝ He was my closest friend. Lost to a cheap and cowardly shot. ❞

❝ I will show them what the consequences are for threatening that which I hold most dear. I will leave no doubt about it. ❞

❝ Control that no one can see makes for no demonstration at all. ❞

❝ All life begins in violence and wailing. It will pass. ❞

❝ Every fight I have ever won… every death I have escaped, every sacrifice I have had bled out of me, it will all have to be repeated just to get things back to where they were a few hours ago. There’s some kind of hell it seems to me to be. ❞

❝ I have grown quite fond of you. You are someone who is determined to be better today than you were yesterday. And in this world, that is in short supply. And so I find myself feeling protective of you. ❞

❝ Amazing, this place. Somehow leaves no options other than to hurt the ones you love. ❞

❝ I would think some sort of thanks might be in order. ❞

❝ When you and I last saw each other… you had every reason to see me killed. ❞

❝ I’d be angrier about it, but I’m a little preoccupied being angry with other people. ❞

❝ Why didn’t you kill me when you had the chance? ❞

❝ We are at our least rational… when we’re at our most vulnerable. ❞

❝ The thought of losing you… ❞

❝ It is some kind of hell to be forced to choose one irreplaceable thing over another. ❞

❝ You must see by now that when you wage war on the world, the world fights back. ❞

❝ I had put so much of myself into this place, in that moment, I honestly didn’t know where I ended and it began. ❞

❝ I think we’ve all seen our fair share of loss and I have had enough of it. ❞

❝ You should trust that my commitment to you remains inviolable… and that this is no betrayal… but an act of love. And an act I am determined to see through to its end. ❞

❝ It will be difficult. But since when did we expect this would be anything else? ❞

❝ This is not easy for me, but I know it is harder for you. Please. Don’t forget that I know that. ❞

❝ … would I be enough for you? ❞

❝ For so long, I thought I knew what I was. ❞

❝ I fear the instincts that have awoken in me… are more insidious than that. ❞

❝ Civilization… has a number of faces. ❞

❝ There is very little… I wouldn’t do to protect my wife. ❞

❝ You’re exactly what I hoped you’d be. ❞

❝ I’m not gonna stand by and watch while all our futures are destroyed. ❞

❝ I don’t know I have it in me to do. ❞

❝ Worry ain’t a good look for a king, not in a kingdom like this… where loyalty is in short supply. ❞

❝ You and I are enemies as our kings are at war with one another. But their war… right now their war is meaningless to me. ❞

❝ You are not my enemy, because my king tells me so. Don’t insult me… by suggesting otherwise. ❞

❝ They’re paying for their war with your money. ❞

❝ This isn’t right. All those men out there that you and I have fought alongside. I can’t believe I’m the only one who knows this isn’t right. ❞

❝ I saw your bloodlust with my own eyes. ❞

❝ If you had suffered such loss, is there anything you can imagine making it right? ❞

❝ It would have been so easy to lessen your suffering by divulging the secret. And yet, I never did. Have you yet asked yourself why that is? ❞

❝ I mistrusted all of you. ❞

❝ It seems the only means I have of registering any meaningful disapproval at this point is to kill one or the both of you. ❞

❝ You are my friend, but I know what you are. I have no illusions about it. ❞

❝ The one thing he’s never done is force me to choose between him and you. That, you did. ❞

❝ You made a terrible mistake and you paid a terrible price. ❞

❝ I could walk out there and tell them the sky is red… and they’d believe me. That’s the power you’ve given me. ❞

❝ I have to know you’ll never put me to a choice between you again. ❞

❝ You chose. Live with it. ❞

❝ Is there any way you can forgive me? ❞

❝ Making sure you don’t slit my throat out of spite, perhaps. ❞

❝ You were a pirate once. ❞

❝ If a man can be replaced so easily, how can I know that his promises won’t be, too? ❞

❝ What has begun here, there is no altering it now. ❞

❝ I loved you. And I betrayed you. But I cannot apologize for it. ❞

❝ If I apologize, you will know it is a lie. And I do not wish to lie to you ever again. ❞

❝ I am going to stay with you. I want to take care of you. ❞

❝ A life of isolation and uncertainty as long as it is lived with someone you love… And who loves you back. It is possible, isn’t it? ❞

❝ I’ll not leave anyone behind. ❞

❝ Seems a fair amount of resentment towards you these days. ❞

❝ I just want you to know… that I remember what you did for me. ❞

❝ It wasn’t supposed to end like this. How can we all have sacrificed so much and none of us has anything to show for it? ❞

❝ Civilization has been winning that war for ten thousand years against men richer, braver, stronger, and smarter than you. How can you be so blind not to see that? ❞

❝ You cannot fight civilization from the outside in. ❞

❝ It wasn’t your fault. ❞

❝ The revolution you promised has begun. ❞

❝ I wasn’t able to say good-bye to you…  ❞

❝ I loved you. And I believe you loved me. ❞

❝ They may call you a king, but only in the kingdom that is no more. ❞

❝ We’re all free here. And I wish to stay that way. ❞

❝ You’ll have plenty of time to murder me another day. Right now, you need to rest. ❞

❝ No one changes the world. Not like this. Not all at once. The world is too strong for that. ❞

❝ Truth isn’t nearly as interesting. ❞

❝ They all turned on me. Discarded what I’d done for them, the sacrifices I made, and left me for dead. And I want them all to pay for it. ❞

❝ Given that kindness is a condition rare in our family, I suppose it’s unsurprising that it went misdiagnosed. ❞

❝ As I would be no slave again, and nor would I be a master. ❞

❝ I do it for us. ❞

❝ You’ll lead them there… and they will follow you. ❞

❝ There’s nothing here but horror. ❞

❝ What if the result of this war isn’t beyond the horror? What if it is the horror itself? ❞

❝ A moment of terror…where everything appears to be without hope. I know this. But I cannot believe that that is all there is. I cannot believe we are so poorly made as that. ❞

❝ It’s a lot to ask…to wager so much suffering on blind faith. ❞

❝ I think that you are the best of us. The two of you together are the world in balance. ❞

❝ A future? I don’t know who broke it first. But it broke. And there ain’t no putting it back together again. ❞

❝ The solution to our problems is not going to come from a council meeting. ❞

❝ The defense of civilization is not your responsibility! ❞

❝ I will move heaven and earth to protect him, but while playing this role, the limits of my influence are ever-present. ❞

❝ Privacy always comes with a price, dear. ❞

❝ You move in a dark and destructive direction. Your grief and your anger… I believe have unmoored you from sound judgment and have left us all in grave danger if you are not reined in. ❞

❝ That sounds an awful lot like treason to me. ❞

❝ Do not ask me to choose between a war and a lover. I do not think you’re going to like the answer. ❞

❝ Because despite the world reminding me every day of my life that I’m undeserving of being given anything by it, that I was unworthy of what little I’d managed to take from it… despite all of that, I never believed a word of it. ❞

❝ I have been fighting the whole goddamn world since the day I was born. ❞

❝ I cannot imagine the road you’ve travelled. The humiliations…and the sacrifices and the defeats… and the illusions maintained at so great a cost to your sense of self.❞

❝ That road has led you to me. I am the gate through which your journey becomes something else. I can make the dreams you have built real. ❞

❝ The toll is small, but it must be paid. ❞

❝ So many lies… to deny a simple truth. ❞

❝ The crown does not divide. It cannot be shared. ❞

❝ You are the bravest person I have ever known. The truest person I have ever known. And I betrayed you and it sickens me. ❞

❝ I am so sorry for working so hard to protect the wrong things. For failing to see that there is nothing important that does not include you. ❞

❝ The men said it sounded to them… like the voice of God… warning them to stay away ❞

❝ We fight, only two outcomes I can see… I die or you die. ❞

❝ But for pride to be an issue between you and I… well, I… I think we’re playing past that by now. ❞

❝ if every man fights differently, seems to me what you’ll really be teaching me is how to defeat you. ❞

❝ You are, for now, a necessary evil here. ❞

❝ You’re still watching my eyes, which is a good way of getting yourself killed. ❞

❝ I have no idea who you were. ❞

❝ I suppose I assumed that if you ever became somebody worth knowing, I’d learn the truth of it eventually. Only… in this moment, I’m realizing that never happened. ❞

❝ And what is of some concern to me is that… despite how invested we each are in the future of the other… you just lied to me again. Why is that? ❞

❝ The latest in a line of ill-fated partners, situating yourself such that… were you and I ever to come to blows… I’d be forced to hesitate before doing you any harm. ❞

❝ I don’t want you to know my story. ❞

❝ Hold on to this for as long as you can, for all of us who once had it… and walked away. ❞

❝ You have no idea the restraint this takes. How urgent the instinct towards violence. ❞

❝ You’re luckier than you know… ❞

❝ Do not make the same mistake I did. ❞

❝ I hear other voices. A chorus of voices. Multitudes. They reach back centuries. Men and women… and children who’d lost their lives… to men like you. ❞

❝ Fuck you… for dictating this outcome to me, for swearing your friendship falsely to me, for your arrogance, your indifference. ❞

❝ You’re too important to what comes next to have to bear a burden like that. ❞

❝ I have no story to tell. ❞

❝ I’ve come to peace with the knowledge… that there is no storyteller imposing any coherence, nor sense, nor grace upon those events. Therefore, there’s no duty on my part to search for it. ❞

❝ You know of me all I can bear to be known. All that is relevant to be known. ❞

❝ That is to say, you know my genuine friendship… and loyalty. Can that be enough and there still be trust between us? ❞

❝ Am I mad? Tell me. I’m asking. ❞

❝ The result ahead of us… promises to be a victory…of a different sort. A true victory. Freedom… in every sense of the word. ❞

❝ How many men in the history of the world have ever known it? How remarkable a moment is this? How fortunate are we to be standing on the threshold of it? ❞

❝ The mind is prone to mischief, I suppose. Especially in a place like this… remote and… full of stories. ❞

❝ There are no monsters in the dark… though there are dangers. ❞

❝ You still think you’ll persuade me to see this all your way? ❞

❝ That’s all this has ever been, isn’t it? A partnership only insofar as it enables you to do whatever it is that matters to you in any given moment. ❞

❝ You do this, and you’re gonna regret it. ❞

❝ What’s to be done with the unwanted ones? ❞

❝ I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but this is considerably better luck than you and I have experienced lately. And yet somehow, I get the sense you and I are possessed of different instincts as to how to react to this. ❞

❝ I know what it’s like… to have lost her. And then seeing a way to have her back. ❞

❝ What I’ve just done… there’s no coming back from that. ❞

❝ They are all enemies of mine. ❞

❝ You think killing me means defeat for them? You will have given them a martyr to unite them. ❞

❝ We could suffer under the weight of our respective questions. Or would you like to start trading answers? ❞

❝ I wish to cause confusion and terror amongst her men. I wish to shatter their spirits. I wish to break them. ❞

❝ Pain is an exceptional tutor. ❞

❝ That isn’t a war. That is a fucking nightmare. ❞

❝ This is how they survive. You must know this. You’re too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows… and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn’t true. ❞

❝ In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it. ❞

❝ But beneath all of that, I recognized the other thing… hiding in the spaces. The one whose shape you first showed me. And when asked, it was honest about the role it wanted to play. It was rage. And it just wanted to see the world burn. ❞

❝ I see a life for myself with you. And I will not live it wondering if tomorrow is the day your nightmare finally takes you away for good. ❞

❝ Defined by their histories… distorted to fit into their narrative… until all that is left of us… are the monsters in the stories they tell their children. ❞

❝ Even if you can persuade her to keep you… she’ll no longer be enough. And the comfort will grow stale. And casting about in the dark for some proof that you mattered and finding none, you’ll know… that you gave it away… in this moment… on this island. ❞

❝ if our intent was to extinguish his war, feeding it a martyr seems like an odd way of going about it. ❞

❝ Don’t you dare insult me by denying this. ❞

❝ You may think what you want of me. I will draw comfort in the knowledge that you’re alive to think it. But I’m not the villain you fear I am. ❞

❝ You didn’t just betray my trust. You have planned to betray it…all that time. ❞

❝ The stories we want to believe… those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition and progress. Those are the stories that shape history. ❞

❝ The men who believed most deeply in it… were ultimately destroyed by it. And those who stood to benefit most from it… were the most eager to leave it all behind.

❝ Until all that remains of any of it… are stories bearing only a passing resemblance to the world the rest of us lived in. A world we survived. A world that is no more. ❞

❝ It’s the art that leaves the mark. ❞

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❝ you ever feel trapped, that you’re just treading water, waiting to drown? ❞   ❝ all the revenge, and rage, and anger…it ages you. ❞   ❝ there’s always an escape. ❞   ❝ weeks we’ve been out here with nothing to show for it. ❞   ❝ if you wanted…i could be your family. ❞   ❝ that was a close call, wasn’t it? ❞   ❝ yeah, i’ve heard of you. i’ve heard all about you. ❞   ❝ to think of the ridiculous rumor going around about you. ❞   ❝ what’s on your mind? everything good? ❞   ❝ you almost got us killed. ❞   ❝ i actually thought you were kind of mad at me, if i’m honest. ❞   ❝ no, that’s the worst thing you could do. ❞   ❝ what makes me happy…is you. ❞   ❝ do you know how hard it is to drive a sword through someone’s skull? ❞   ❝ did you hear that? we’re under attack. ❞   ❝ one day, all this will be yours. ❞   ❝ now sheath our swords and sharpen our knives. ❞   ❝ that’s not…is that true? ❞   ❝ this, whatever it is that you’ve become…is a fate worse than death. ❞   ❝ that’s funny. i haven’t heard much about you. ❞   ❝ i, um…i missed you. ❞   ❝ unhand me or bleed. ❞   ❝ chose your next words wisely. ❞   ❝ the point is to rest our bodies…as well as our minds. ❞   ❝ you’re a child with a toy. ❞   ❝ how does one…move past such a thing? ❞   ❝ until you resolve this guilt, you’ll continue to be haunted. ❞   ❝ i wouldn’t take it personal. it’s just that they don’t like you. ❞   ❝ surrender. you have no chance of escape. ❞   ❝ i’ve seen death. i’ve seen the cause of death. it changes you forever. ❞   ❝ this is who i am. can you see me now? you were always gonna realize what i am. ❞   ❝ some men are not built for adventure. some men should concern themselves with gentler things. ❞   ❝ sometime’s a quick death’s the best way to end a bad conversation. ❞   ❝ the only good leaders are the ones that hate being leaders. ❞   ❝ stand down now. you’re in over your head. ❞   ❝ here it is. the spoils of battle. ❞   ❝ whatever you’re going through right now, it’s none of my business. ❞   ❝ the best secret keepers are corpses. ❞   ❝ have you killed anyone recently? ❞   ❝ i understand what it’s like to live in disguise. ❞   ❝ you’re not a ghost, are you? ❞   ❝ you know, i actually thought you’d be dead by now. ❞   ❝ maybe, in your next life, you’ll be a little less nosey, huh? ❞   ❝ ahhh. you’re in love. ❞ ❝ i don’t fit here anymore, do i? ❞   ❝ what are you doing? someone’s going to see you. ❞   ❝ they put a price on your head, remember? ❞       ❝ when you kill, you die as well. ❞ ❝ why’re you hiding your face? ❞   ❝ looks like we’re gonna live after all. for a little while longer, at least. ❞       ❝ i didn’t know this place was haunted. ❞   ❝ it’s always the quiet ones. ❞   ❝ we just can’t seem to stop hurting each other, can we? ❞   ❝ we’re friends. friends tell each other these kind of things. ❞   ❝ i can’t believe you made me do this. ❞   ❝ turn your enemy’s worst fear against them, you’ll own them. ❞   ❝ i will not be trifled with, so don’t even think about trifling me. ❞   ❝ still a coward. pathetic. ❞   ❝ listen. i-i thought i was going to lose you. ❞   ❝ you seem to know everything about everything in the whole fucking world. ❞   ❝ here it is. high society in all its grotesque glory. ❞   ❝ i couldn’t help but notice that they got under your skin. ❞   ❝ all their blood’s going to be on your hands. ❞   ❝ what’s happening? am i dead? ❞   ❝ all i’ve been doing is thinking. and drinking. thinking and drinking. ❞   ❝ i just wasn’t built for sitting idle. ❞   ❝ i’m not a good person. ❞   ❝ you’re not a human. you’re a monster. a plague. ❞   ❝ you know what your problem is? you have no idea how to relax. ❞   ❝ sometimes, i think i…i’ve heard you crying. ❞   ❝ we don’t do it because we like it. we do it because we don’t have any other choice. ❞ ❝ it’s not that you deserve it or that you’ve earned it…lord knows you haven’t done that. ❞   ❝ some of us won’t be coming back. others may be wounded. ❞   ❝ look at that. you wear fine things well. ❞   ❝ maybe we can just…get away? start over. reset. ❞   ❝ at some point in a man’s life, he has to face the music. ❞   ❝ do you mind if i sleep in here tonight? ❞   ❝ well, this has been quite a blast, but i’m sure you’re busy with all your things. ❞   ❝ these are my people. i’ll deal with it. ❞   ❝ what’s the scariest thing you’ve ever seen? ❞   ❝ you have any idea who i am? ❞   ❝ you were not raised to kneel, or to turn the other cheek. ❞   ❝ we’re in the middle of nowhere. no one’s gonna recognize you. ❞   ❝ i thought i’d have a cooler death than this. ❞   ❝ we’re gonna have fun today, and that’s an order. ❞   ❝ you can be a real bummer sometimes, you know that? ❞   ❝ i’m gonna try and undo some of the damage from that interaction. ❞   ❝ we are to be lighthouses for each other, remember? ❞   ❝ when you cut lose, you really cut lose. ❞   ❝ this is how you die. ❞   ❝ how does it feel to be in love? ❞   ❝ uh, no. i didn’t hear anything. ❞  

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PROMPTS FROM BEYONCÉ'S COWBOY CARTER *  assorted lines from the album, some slightly adapted, adjust as necessary

nothing really ends.

for things to stay the same, they have to change again.

hello, my old friend.

you changed your name, but not the ways you play pretend.

do you hear me?

let me make myself clear.

can you hear me, or do you fear me?

can we stand for something?

now is the time to face the wind.

can you stand me?

this isn't the time to pretend.

they used to say i spoke "too country."

they don't know how hard i had to fight for this.

goodbye to what has been.

you were only waiting for this moment to arise.

i had to leave my home at an early age.

i'm not in my bed.

i gotta choose myself.

i might cook, clean, but still won't fold.

i'm still working on my life, you know.

only god knows.

i got art to make.

i got love to create.

they won't dim my light.

i had to sacrifice and leave my fears behind.

you'll remember me, 'cause we got something to prove.

i will lead you down that road if you lose your way.

i'm born to be a protector.

even though i know someday, you're gonna shine on your own.

i gave water to the soil, and now it feeds me.

there you are, shaded underneath it all.

i feel proud of who i am.

i first saw your face in your father's gaze.

how many times have you let yourself get down?

be fond of your flaws.

i just hope you love yourself like that.

i really hope the best for you.

you're my love, my sweetie pie.

don't let go.

lay your cards down.

i'll be damned if i can't slow dance with you.

don't be a bitch.

there's a heatwave coming at us.

i give you kisses in the backseat.

you make me cry, you make me happy.

just toss it.

they couldn't have me and they never will.

sometimes i hold you closer just to know you're real.

sometimes i take a day off just to turn you on.

i could be your bodyguard.

you should let me ride shotgun.

you know how people like to start shit.

someone better hold me back.

i'm warning you, don't come for my man.

don't take the chance just because you think you can.

the games you play are nothing new.

you don't want no heat with me.

i know my man better than he knows himself.

shoot your shot with someone else.

i'm warning you, woman, find your own man.

i have to have this talk with you.

i really tried to stay cool, but your arrogance disturbed my solitude.

look what you made me do.

if you cross me, i'm just like my father.

you say move a mountain and i'll throw on my boots.

how does it feel to be adored?

think about leaving? hell no.

time moves quickly, and so do i.

i don't need anything.

here's to hoping i'll fall fast asleep tonight.

i need to get through this.

i came here for a reason, but i don't know the purpose.

time heals everything.

i'll be your backseat baby.

been a while since i haven't tried to pull away.

come here, you sexy little thing.

baby, you play too much.

i'm looking super hot.

i'm a fucking animal.

every time you know just what to do.

no one ever got me going quite like you.

girl, i wanna take you home.

they won't be around.

i hope that you know that once i loved you.

history can't be erased.

got you up all night and now you don't wanna leave.

how can a true love go so wrong?

put on a show and make it nasty.

let me sink into your arms.

i died and someone brought me back to life.

i plan to steal your heart again.

who am i to judge?

i will carry on.

baby, i've been waiting my whole life for you.

wherever you wanna go, that's fine with me.

all i see is the best of you.

i'm gonna give you the best years of your life.

you owe me a debt.

i hated you once.

tap me on the shoulder when you reload the gun.

i know they're looking for me.

i fall to pieces each time i see you there.

it don't matter what nobody says.

we can take back roads.

just say what you need from the store.

i'm coming home.

take that shit on the chin.

have mercy on me.

this house was built with blood and bones.

i need to make you proud.

&. 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬.

( dialogue  prompts  taken  from the script of  everything  everywhere  all  at  once  (2022),  directed  by  daniel  kwan  and  daniel  scheinert.  feel  free  to  edit  and  change  as  you  seem  fit. )

❛ you look really pretty right now. ❜

❛ stop changing the subject. ❜

❛ every day i fight, i fight for all of us. ❜

❛ what are you doing? what is wrong? ❜

❛ if i have to think about one more thing today, my head will explode. ❜

❛ you may be in grave danger. there is no time to explain.❜

❛ we can make our own way. please, come with me. ❜

❛ don't even talk to me about this because i won't remember.❜

❛ i am not your husband. at least not the one you know. i am another version of him from another life path, another universe. ❜

❛ i’m here because we need your help.❜

❛ sorry, very busy today. no time to help you– ❜

❛ all those years of searching have brought me here. to this universe. to you. ❜

❛ i’m here to tell you every rejection, every disappointment has led you here. to this moment. ❜

❛ i'm not ready to fight yet. ❜

❛ maybe we don't have a choice. ❜

❛ now, you can either come with me and live up to your ultimate potential, or lie here and live with the consequences. ❜

❛ i... want to lie here. ❜

❛ how often do people literally die laughing? ❜

❛ my husband won't even kill a spider. how are you the same person? ❜

❛ we are talking about infinity. if you can imagine it, somewhere out there, it exists. ❜

❛ how did i die? ❜

❛ i've seen you die a thousand ways. in a thousand worlds. in every single one, you were murdered. ❜

❛ what!? who wants me dead? ❜

❛ you’ve been feeling it too, haven’t you? something is off. your clothes never wear as well the next day, your hair never falls in quite the same way, even your coffee tastes... wrong. ❜

❛ maybe we would have been better off if we had never gotten married. ❜

❛ i never said that. ❜

❛ you didn’t have to. it’s the way you look at me. ❜

❛ can’t you see it? how wonderful it would be if you came with me? ❜

❛ i saw my life without you. i wish you could have seen it. it was beautiful. ❜

❛ shhh, you're not thinking straight. ❜

❛ what is worse than death? ❜

❛ i saw your face on a billboard and — this is silly — i wondered if you remembered me... ❜

❛ is it that i can’t be here, or that i’m not allowed to be here? ❜

❛ there is no good, there is no evil. there is only “goovil”. ❜

❛ if you can imagine it, you have fucked it. ❜

❛ do not be so closed minded that you blind yourself from the truth! ❜

❛ don’t make me fight you. i am really really good. ❜

❛ you're capable of anything because you're so bad at everything. ❜

❛ you can't remember anything because your bodies were under the control of other universes. ❜

❛ you were like puppets. and you could do things you normally can't do. you were like, what's that movie... raccaccoonie? ❜

❛ how can you defeat her in every universe, if you can't even kill her in one? ❜

❛ the sacrifices necessary to win this war... i know all too well. ❜

❛ i cannot lose another loved one to the darkness. ❜

❛ i know you have feelings. feelings that make you so sad. that make you just want to give up. that is not your fault. ❜

❛ i'll see you again soon, somewhere out there in all that noise. ❜

❛ just think happy thoughts. ❜

❛ you okay? caught you staring off into space again. ❜

❛ i'm the one you've been looking for. ❜

❛ i’m the one who will defeat you. ❜

❛ you’re finally free, like me. ❜

❛ you don't have to choose anymore. between loving me or hating me. you can do both at the same time. ❜

❛ before, you were asking about "our daughter". it's crazy, but it really got me thinking. what if you had come with me all of those years ago? ❜

❛ all of this time, i wasn't looking for someone who could defeat me. i was looking for someone who could see what i see, feel what i feel... ❜

❛ oh, good, you're here too. ❜

❛ i'm sorry about ruining everything, i– ❜

❛ we're all stupid. small stupid little humans. it's like our whole deal. ❜

❛ everything is going to be okay. ❜

❛ you think i’m weak don’t you? ❜

❛ when we first fell in love all of those years ago, your father would say i was too sweet for my own good. maybe he was right. ❜

❛ please! can we just stop fighting! ❜

❛ you tell me that it's a cruel world and we're all just running around in circles. i know that. i've been on this earth just as many days as you. ❜

❛ the only thing i do know is we have to be kind. be kind. especially, when we don't know what's going on. ❜

❛ i know you go through life with your fists held tight. you see yourself as a fighter. well, i see myself as one too. this is how i fight. ❜

❛ in another life, i would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you. ❜

❛ you know what i say? cold, hysterical, unlovable bitches like us make the world go round. ❜

❛ you aren’t unlovable. there is always something to love. ❜

❛ even in a stupid, stupid universe where we have hot dogs for fingers, we’d all be very good with our feet! ❜

❛ in a universe where we both agree that no one could love you, if we look hard enough, something will prove us wrong. ❜

❛ we are all useless alone. so its good you're not alone. ❜

❛ maybe you win in this universe. but in another, i beat you. or we tie. or we eat crepes. ❜

❛ i don't want to hurt anymore. and for some reason when i'm with you, it hurts both of us. ❜

❛ out of all of the places i could be, why would i want to be here with you? ❜

❛ i still want to be here with you. i will always want to be here with you. ❜

❛ i will cherish these few specks of time. ❜