#mountain goats sentence starters
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JENNY FROM THEBES SENTENCE STARTERS
taken from the 2023 album by the mountain goats
"remember at your peril."
"forget the ones you can."
"i left home feeling empty."
"they made a space for you."
"this world is sad and broken, gotta fix a crack or two."
"rest until you're rested."
"just when you think you've learned how to forget, you learn it's just the ones who haven't risen to the surface yet."
"this will be the last time i do this, i'm pretty sure."
"no one lasts for long in this profession, so they say."
"maybe i'll see you again someday."
"you can make out all the exits from a static position."
"i'm never gonna break my neck falling down stairs."
"you can light a cigarette against the cooktop if you need to."
"you're never gonna get by on three hours' sleep a night."
"you're never gonna get by on three hours' sleep a night, unless you absolutely have to. then you'll get by alright."
"you're gonna get a wrinkle on your forehead."
"you're gonna make a bargain with the bad guys."
"you're gonna make some choices you regret."
"there's no place to hide from the prophecy."
"there's only one way out."
"there's only one way out, no matter what you do."
"watch for the signs."
"you're gonna have to steal what you need."
"they're never gonna let you forget."
"but if all that's true, what about you?"
"i think i'm gonna take you in."
"i've always had to follow my instincts."
"usually, i'm out on my own."
"what happens if i take you home?"
"i'm headed for a season in exile, as the oracle predicted."
"according to reliable sources, in thirty days i'm getting evicted."
"i've seen ones like you before."
"i gave you an answer that i thought you'd buy."
"all of this will disappear in the twinkling of an eye."
"i can hear the timer ticking in my chest."
"what are you gonna do?"
"it's better if you have a plan."
"i saw the future in an oil slick, it told me what i need to know: leave a little stain behind you everywhere you go."
"i'm only slightly diminished, older but wiser."
"when you've got a big job to do, you notice how the moments drag."
"live in the present."
"relish the time before you have to leave it behind."
"i'm smarter but scared, now."
"wearing an exile's mark: one that's gonna glow in the dark."
"take all your worry and care, feed it to the big machine."
"once you commit to the turn, you're gonna have to follow through."
"it's the only thing you can do."
"what's become of us?"
"when the vision comes, i have no resistance."
"i used to get so scared."
"it wasn't in your nature, taking in strays."
"i clung to you for days."
"i'm strong now. that was all years back."
"it's somewhere in a wreckyard now. never see it again on this earth."
"let the scavengers proclaim how much it was worth."
"i figure something's gotta happen sometime."
"i wait all day for you."
"i can smell the threat of rain in the air."
"i can only try to understand."
"a small amount of pressure in the right place breaks the strongest link in the chain."
"i'm trying not to buckle under the strain."
"i'll take anything that the others won't."
"i can see the value where others don't."
"i'm striking a bargain with the imp in my brain."
"you're prepared to take another knock for the short game, but you can ask any veteran running back: eventually your joints complain."
"everyone deserves a little light in their hair."
"everybody needs to love and be loved."
"anything to help with the pain."
"you have to be headed somewhere."
"somebody comes bearing the standard just when you need to see it held high."
"i feel something bigger than me."
"a body floating in a water tower only has one way to go."
"never thought we'd see the day when you wiggled free, but you did long before we did."
"i didn't guess we'd ever come to dread that engine's roar."
"nobody will ever know for certain the names of all the secrets i've held back behind the curtain."
"aging motorcycles purr like cats when they draw near."
"i could barely make the frame out through my tears."
"nobody's ever gonna pour plaster in my tracks. my exit will be clean when i vanish from the scene."
"you won't find any thumbprints to dust your powder into."
"depends on the way the wind blows."
"kiss the people you hold dear and forget that i was ever here."
"if word should reach you from the field, be cool."
"make them beat it out of you if they want it."
"if they steer me wrong, i'm just gonna play along."
"let me go to no haven anyone would yearn for."
"let me go free."
"on the morning when i stop looking back, i'll be up to see the sunrise."
"may you emerge free and clear."
"may you do some good where you go."
"i'll carry what i need to carry and bury what i have to bury."
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𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐎𝐌 𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐆𝐎𝐀𝐓𝐒 𝐋𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐒
a collection of some of my favorite and some of the rawest lyrics from north carolina-based indie dad rock band The Mountain Goats i could think of without making this meme a novella. many mature themes present & especially so if you decide to listen to john’s music.
‘ i am gonna make it through this year if it kills me. ’
‘ people say friends don’t destroy one another. what do they know about friends? ’
‘ woke up afraid of my own shadow. like genuinely afraid. ’
‘ headed for the pawnshop to buy myself a switchblade. ’
‘ i feel guilty but i can’t feel ashamed. ’
‘ it’s okay to find the faith to saunter forward. ’
‘ lord send me a mechanic if i’m not beyond repair. ’
‘ there’s bound to be a ghost at the back of your closet no matter where you live. ’
‘ there’s gonna come a day when you feel better. ’
‘ i’m gonna bribe the officials, i’m gonna kill all the judges. ’
‘ it’s gonna take you people years to recover from all of the damage. ’
‘ our friends say it’s darkest before the sun rises, we’re pretty sure they’re all wrong. ’
‘ i hope when you think of me years down the line you can’t find one good thing to say. ’
‘ i hope that if i found the strength to walk out you’d stay the hell out of my way. ’
‘ i am drowning, there is no sign of land. ’
‘ you are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand. ’
‘ i hope you die. i hope we both die. ’
‘ cling to my convictions even when i get hurt. ’
‘ but i’ve tried the losing side, i don’t wanna die in here. ’
‘ you found my breaking point. congratulations. ’
‘ spent too much of my life now trying to play fair. ’
‘ i’m walking out of here in one piece, don’t care what comes after. ’
‘ do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive. ’
‘ some things you do just to see how bad they’ll make you feel. ’
‘ some people crash two or three times and then learn from their mistakes. ’
‘ mistreat your altar boys long enough and this is what you get. ’
‘ a tiger’s never going to change its stripes. ’
‘ too long i’ve let my self respect stand in my way. ’
‘ you can stand up, you can run. you and i both know what you’ve done. ’
‘ i will carry you home in my teeth. ’
‘ spat out my morning prayers. desperate pleas and viscous lies. ’
‘ there are no pan-asian supermarkets down in hell. ’
‘ feast when you can, and dream when there's nothing to feast on. ’
‘ the most remarkable thing about coming home to you is the feeling of being in motion again. ’
‘ i am not this body that imprisons me. ’
‘ look hard at my stripes, there’ll be no more after me. ’
‘ sing for the damage we’ve done and the worse things that we’ll do. ’
‘ i know you’d kill me if you could stand the sight of blood. ’
‘ i can see the future, it’s a real dark place. ’
‘ i’m doing this for revenge. ’
‘ john rambo never went to vietnam. ’
‘ i am healthy, i am whole. but i have poor impulse control. ’
‘ i wanna go home, but i am home. ’
‘ i’m going to get my perfect body back someday. ’
‘ if not by faith then by the sword i’m going to be restored. ’
‘ and i can't think of one thing in this whole wide blessed world that's more dangerous and frightening than you when you get bored. ’
‘ i am coming home to you with my own blood in my mouth. ’
‘ i am coming home to you if it’s the last thing that i do. ’
‘ you’re the last best thing i’ve got going. ’
‘ so i follow you down your twisting alleyways, find a few cul-de-sacs of my own. ’
‘ there’s only one place this road ever ends up and i don’t wanna die alone. ’
‘ wake up sixty minutes after my head hits the pillow. i can’t live like this. ’
‘ believe in your heart and confess with your lips. surely you will be saved one day. ’
‘ wait as long as i have to for good news. ’
‘ a kind and loving god won’t let my small ship run aground. ’
‘ no one hopes to hear the bagman call. ’
‘ no friends closer than the ones we lost. ’
‘ no greater love than to lay my life down for a friend. ’
‘ look high: it’s my last hope! ’
‘ i need justice in my life, here it comes. ’
‘ i’ve been told it’s real sweet to grow old. ’
‘ i don’t mean it when i tell you “i don’t love you anymore”. ’
‘ what’ll i do when i don’t have you? when i finally get what i deserve? ’
‘ you can’t give me back what you’ve taken. but you can give me something that’s almost as good. ’
‘ look at the person i’ve turned into. tell me, how do you like him now? ’
‘ i am right where you want me. do what you brought me out here for. ’
‘ you can arm me to the teeth, you can’t make me go to war. ’
‘ i’m under no illusion as to what i meant to you. ’
‘ but you made an impression. sometimes i still feel the bruise. ’
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Hermitcraft season 10 sentence starters.
"If you die, you're out."
"The salmon head makes it feel slightly safer."
"I think if you die you should be punished."
"I'd happily munch on a bit of (name) thigh."
"Skeleton! Skeleton!"
"Don't go that way! Don't go that way! Don't go either way! Don't go any way!"
"If it's a jukebox, you're going in the lava."
"(name). I am brimming with rage."
"As our heroic adventurer descended, he shouted back: oh no, my food!"
"I suddenly just want to organise my documents and I don't know why."
"You organised it into a fire, you complete buffoon!"
"Oh we're gonna make loads of telescopes, can't wait."
"Actually I need to punch (name) at some point."
"I'll be next to you, (name). We'll be right next to each other, rubbing up a-yeah, we'll be like- we'll be there."
"That hole right there is my hole."
"I don't know if that's the best deal, but it was entertaining."
"I worry about myself, I really do."
"Whoever did this needs to be put in jail."
"I just keep launching myself to the ground."
"I spent sixteen hours on these yesterday. You'd better like them."
"(name) encouraged me. He encouraged me."
"I'm not too scared of goats anymore."
"NO MORE SAND!"
"Look at my calves. Those are strong."
"This is the best mountain that's ever lived, and I claim it as my own."
"I think whoever gets to it and touches it first gets to claim...whatever this is."
"I left for five seconds and you killed (name)."
"Fight for my love!"
"You know what, we could all link our cracks together."
"I'm banning the word 'crack'."
"I don't need any questions asked about this. No questions please."
"I assure you these are not underwear. These are man shorts!"
"I can't believe you're still alive."
"Avert your eyes. Avert your eyes!"
"I promise I mean you no harm."
"I'm just gonna go cry in the river."
"Have you come to mock me and my hole?"
"Look how unmoved I am by this."
"I'm not pivoting! I don't want to pivot!"
"Oh look at those guys. It'd be a shame if something happened to them."
"What is this day-ball of fiery death above me?"
"Did you just ask me what trees are?"
"I heard we were having a funeral? I brought wood for your coffin."
"Where's my trenchcoat and binoculars?"
"Hi everybody. Welcome to my cower hole."
"(name), I'm very suspicious of you now."
#my many merry memes (rp meme)#specify muse please ^-^#sentence starters#hermitcraft sentence starters#hermitcraft s10
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Half-Life: Full Regret sentence starters
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All lines are from this video.
“Watch as I get comfortable.”
“I’m going to go step on a Lego, watch.”
“It’s involuntary! I can’t stop dancing!”
“Help me! My booty! It be shaking!”
“Yes, this is how it’s meant to be! This is exactly how science looks!”
“Those are screams of success!”
“I told you he was thick!”
“Now, quick, draw a cool ‘S’ on the wall!”
“Now that’s some fucking science!”
“I’m busted with the sauce.”
“I don’t think that man likes scientists.”
“Watch out, you might learn something! We wouldn’t want that, would we?”
“I’m here to kill you! ...Nevermind.”
“Just jam it with your own bones.”
“Explosives? Don’t mind if I do.”
“Give me one reason why I should let him live.”
“This won’t hurt a bit.”
“I’m goated with sauce.”
“Check THESE schmooves.”
“I don’t know why you’re walking over here looking so tense.”
“That’s too much text. I refuse to read that. I’m happy for you though, or sorry that happened.”
“Oh. Well now it’s not funny anymore.”
“Ow! Something appears to have hit me!”
“We should probably not be in this room.”
“I would have simply just not let that happen to me.”
“He died as he lived– on the floor.”
“I am the 25th [name]. I have wisdom from the previous [name]s.”
“Gimmie some of that health, you dogass.”
“You know what? You’ve incurred my wrath!”
“He threw it back too hard! He died!”
“I sense regret! It summons me!”
“We’re here to kill you!”
“Yeah, this is definitely Mountain Dew. Burns like it.”
“Help! I’m becoming baja blasted!”
“You got folded like an omelette!”
“What’s fresh, me homies?”
“Yes, but I’m also not long for this world. I can get away with saying it.”
“I didn’t even realize those boxes exploded. I was just trying to get stuff.”
“Kill me if you want– you can’t un-content yourself.”
“I don’t even know how to survive in here.”
“This is so terrifying.”
“It’s going to be a long night, everyone.”
“You’re pretty bad at this game! We can prove this by showing how you die all the time!”
“This is the most regretful button press I’ve ever done in my life.”
“I have a song for this one.”
“Don’t worry, I have a science pineapple!”
“Do not worry. The water’s killing me faster than you ever could.”
“Should probably run away. That’s a big one. That’s a big boy.”
“Don’t worry, the MC beat the thing. I’m just fucking around here. Sure.”
“Actively getting killed still.”
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the mountain goats : transcendental youth album ... sentence starters
“I despise this town.”
“I don't have to be afraid.”
“I don’t want to be afraid.”
“Can't quite catch 'em all.”
“I'm still here, but all is lost.”
“Climb limits past the limits.”
“And stay alive. Just stay alive.”
“Learn some secrets, never tell.”
“Days like dominos, all in a line.”
“Keep one step ahead of enemies.”
“I am happy where the vermin play.”
“Everybody trying to make his mark.”
“I get pretty sentimental, now and then.”
“Stayed up late and wrecked this place.”
“Someone needs to clean up this mess.”
“Nerves strung so high, I am a mandolin.”
“You can't judge us. You're not the judge.”
“Remember soaring higher than a cloud?”
“I think I'll stay here, 'til I feel whole, again.”
“Leave a little mark on something, maybe.”
“Sad and angry, can't learn how to behave.”
“Feel so hungry, I'll probably pass out soon.”
“Use too much and make a great big mess.”
“Locked up in myself, never gonna get free.”
“My spirit sings loud and clear, even in here.”
“Feel the storm every night, hope it passes by.”
“Don't hurt anybody on your way up to the light.”
“Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.”
“I don't even bother trying to read them anymore.”
“I saw the light of my spirit descend the other day.”
“Probably never see her, again, in this life, I guess.”
“Do every stupid thing to try to drive the dark away.”
“And there's nobody there to catch us when we fall.”
“Stay in the game. Just try to play through the pain.”
“I hide down in my corner, because I like my corner.”
“Live like an outlaw, clutching gold coins in his claw.”
“Hard to know who might or might not be your friend.”
“This is a dream, though... It's never gonna come true.”
“Spent the wet night tracking visions through the pines.”
“I'll be reborn someday, someday, if I wait long enough.”
“But I see the light that much clearer every time I return.”
“Let people call you crazy for the choices that you make.”
“Foretell worse things than such frightful nights as these.”
“Make up magic spells; we wear them like protective shells.”
“Some things you do just to see how bad they'll make you feel.”
“And some no-one from the future remembers that you're gone.”
“Sing. Sing high while the fire climbs. Sing one for the old times.”
“Find where the heat's unbearable and stay there if you have to.”
“And you can't tell me what my spirit tells me isn't true, can you?“
“Hold my hopes underwater. Stand there and watch them drown.”
“Dream of maybe waking up someday and wanting you less than I do.”
“But I am just a broken machine, and I do things that I don't really mean.”
“Some people crash two or three times, and then learn from their mistakes.”
“Can't learn how to behave. Still won't know how in the darkness of the grave.”
“In old movies, people scream, choking on their fists when they see shadows like these.”
“Nothing in the shadows but the shadow hands, reaching out to sad, young, frightened men.”
“The loneliest people in the whole, wide world are the ones you're never going to see, again.”
“Every dream's a good dream; even awful dreams are good dreams if you're doing it right.”
“People might laugh at your tattoos. When they do, get new ones in completely garish hues.”
“It seems like everyone's cut me free and left me to the tender cares of my faceless enemy.”
“Play with matches if you think you need to play with matches. Seek out the hidden places where the fire burns hot and bright.”
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The Mountain Goats: Tallahassee (2002) album sentence starters
cw: toxic relationship, alcohol
❝ There is no plan we can fall back on. ❞
❝ There are loose ends by the score. ❞
❝ What did I come down here for? ❞
❝ Let the good times roll on through these first few desperate hours. ❞
❝ We keep our spirits light but they drop like flies. ❞
❝ You've got whatever's left of me to get. ❞
❝ Our conversations are like minefields; no one's found a safe way through one yet. ❞
❝ I am not going to lose you. ❞
❝ We are going to stay married. ❞
❝ That stuff tastes like medicine but I'll take it, it'll do. ❞
❝ I held on to you with a desperate strength. ❞
❝ People say friends don't destroy one another; what do they know about friends? ❞
❝ Everything's gonna be okay soon. Maybe tomorrow, maybe the next day. ❞
❝ Your drunken kiss is as light as the air. ❞
❝ Maybe everything that falls down eventually rises. ❞
❝ Look beyond the broken bottles, past the rotting wooden stairs. ❞
❝ How long will we ride this wave out? ❞
❝ How long till someone caves under the pressure? ❞
❝ My dreams are haunted by armies, armies of ghosts. ❞
❝ I hope that our few remaining friends give up on trying to save us. ❞
❝ I hope it’s already too late. ❞
❝ I hope the rising black smoke carries me far away and I never come back to this town again. ❞
❝ I hope I lie, and tell everyone you were a good wife. ❞
❝ Our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises; we're pretty sure they're all wrong. ❞
❝ I hope I never get sober. ❞
❝ I am drowning, there is no sign of land. ❞
❝ You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand. ❞
❝ I hope you die. I hope we both die. ❞
❝ Your love is like a cyclone in a swamp. ❞
❝ But my love is like a dark cloud full of rain. ❞
❝ I fear for my safety, you can see it in my eyes. ❞
❝ The sky will fall, we will rise. ❞
❝ My love is like a powder keg in the corner of an empty warehouse. ❞
❝ The way I feel about you, baby, can't explain it. ❞
❝ You got the best of my love. ❞
❝ Someone's gonna do something someone else will regret. ❞
❝ Something here will eventually have to explode. ❞
❝ Name one thing about us two anyone could love. ❞
❝ The warning signs have all been bright and garish, far too great in number to ignore. ❞
❝ Our love has never had a leg to stand on. ❞
❝ I want to say I'm sorry for stuff I haven't done yet. ❞
❝ Things will shortly get completely out of hand. ❞
❝ I will walk down to the end with you, if you will come all the way down with me. ❞
❝ But then you came in and we locked eyes. ❞
❝ What will I do when I don't have you to hold onto in the dark? ❞
❝ I don't know why it's gotten harder to keep myself away. ❞
❝ I don't mean it when I tell you that I don't love you anymore. ❞
❝ Some day we'll both wake up for good. ❞
❝ Sing for the flames that will rip through here, and the smoke that will carry us away. ❞
❝ Sing for the damage we've done and the worse things that we'll do. ❞
❝ Open your mouth and sing for me now, and I will sing for you. ❞
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audio meme :// songs for pierre chuvin by the mountain goats
( lightly edited to fit structure; change pronouns as necessary. )
your reputation precedes you.
something must be done here in the heat of the onslaught.
this is just a momentary ripple in the stream.
isn’t it a big improvement on the way things used to be?
we’ll be here on the day it finally burns.
they’ll do what they were going to do anyway.
we will bring memories of these things when we come.
the burden of exile gets easy to bear.
when the hunger turns in on itself, it begins to devour its host.
who do you turn to for help?
who do you love the most?
there’s no good end in view.
i dance in the dark, all alone.
if they come catch me and arrest me, let me be the last one left.
when the hunger’s all that holds you together, who do you want by your side?
notch some wins. take some losses.
how long until the snake devours its tail?
return the peace you took from me.
take note of what will be gone in the blink of an eye.
we’ll see the places where we met to share our secrets again.
i say my prayers to whoever i call out to in the night.
make it through this year if it kills you outright.
i’m headed somewhere better if i have to crawl there on all fours.
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The Sunset Tree Sentence Starters
Sentence Starters from The Mountain Goat’s Album The Sunset Tree
Content warnings: Mentions of abuse, drugs, alcohol, underage drinking.
You Or Your Memory:
“I walked down to the corner store just before nightfall in me bare feet.”
“...and you.. or your memory.”
“I ducked behind the drapes when I saw the moon begin to rise.”
“Lord, if I make it through tonight, then I will mend my ways and walk the straight path till the end of my days.”
Broom people:
“Down in your arms I am a wild creature.”
“Half eaten gallons of ice cream in the freezer.”
“I write down good reasons to freeze to death, in my spiral ring notebook.”
“I am a babbling brook.”
This year:
“I broke free on a Saturday morning.”
“I am gonna make through this year if it kills me.”
“I played video games in a drunken haze I was 17 years young.”
“The scene ends badly, as you might imagine.”
“There will be feasting, and dancing, in Jerusalem next year.”
Dilaudid:
“The receptions gotten fuzzy.”
“Now you say you love me, pretty soon you won’t.”
“So kiss me with your mouth open.”
“You just can’t do things your body wasn’t meant to.”
Dance Music:
“So this is what the volume up’s for.”
“You’re the last best thing I got going.”
“There’s only one place this road ever ends up and I don’t wanna die alone.”
“When the police come to get me, I’m listing to dance music.”
Dinu Lipatti’s Bones:
“We sealed ourselves away from view.”
“The best that I could do was to train my eyes on you.”
“We kept our friends at bay all summer long.”
“There was no money, it was money that you wanted.”
“I went downtown, sold of most of what I owned.”
Up the Wolves:
“There’ll always be a few things, maybe several things, that you’re gonna find really difficult to forgive.”
“There’s gonna come a day when you feel better.”
“They will shake their heads and wag their bony fingers, in all the wrong directions.”
“By daybreak we’ll be gone.”
“I’m gonna bribe the officials.”
Lion’s Teeth:
“When the chances fall in your lap like that, you gotta recognize them for what they really are.”
“I hold on for dear life.”
“I am gonna regret the day that I was born.”
“There’s no good way to end this, anyone can see.”
“There’s just great big you, and little old me.”
Hast Thou Considered The Tetrapod:
“I am young and I am good...”
“If I wake you up, there will be hell to pay.”
“It’s the one thing that I couldn't live with out.”
“One of these days, I’m gonna wiggle up on dry land.”
Magpie:
“Try hard to do your best.”
“Work all night of you have to.”
“You will go down on all fours.”
“Be ready, and be brave.”
“Remember what we had here, when there was something left to save.”
Song For Dennis Brown:
“For a while there it was chaos.”
“On the day my lung collapses, it’s not gonna be much different.”
“Out behind the Chinese restaurants guys were jumping into dumpsters.”
“On the day my habits catch up with me I’ll be down among the jumpers.”
Love Love Love:
“Some things you do for money, and some you do for love.”
“The things you do for love are gonna come back to you one by one.”
“Then we shall see each other face to face.”
“Some moments last forever, but some flair out with love.”
Pale Green Things:
“Got up before dawn...”
“We watched the horses run their workouts.”
“Sometimes I’ll meet you out there, lonely and frightened.”
“My sister called at three AM.”
“That morning at the racetrack was one thing I remembered.”
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The Adventure Zone - Sentence Starters
Change anything you need to suit your needs!
"At least you put him out, he was on fire."
"It's our first kill! ... Why am I so horny?"
"Aw, now he's going to eat my shrimp. I'm in Hell."
"Sounds like quite the production."
"I'm not an intelligent man, but, uh..."
"I'm foolhardy but I'm not stupid."
"Listen, I know about animals."
"It's going to be great every time but once. Then you're going to need a new brother."
"I would actually, heartily, recommend you turn around. This is not a great place for tourism."
"Guys! It's the guys from the horse thing!"
"You think he has never seen light before?"
”I wasn't doing it with my nose.”
”It’s a very goddamn big spider.”
”I apologize for this very sexual language.”
”Listen, it's not a great idea but it is a <NAME> idea.”
”Good job, you've knocked over a spider.”
”Now this may be a little cheesy, but I can't let you die.”
”While he's unconscious can I check his stuff?”
”He’s bleeding from both nose nostrils, his shit is WRECKED.”
”Jesus Christ! How deep is that pit?”
”I regret this immediately!”
”Guys, I DON'T think that was Gogurt.”
”You remember a terrible war and the first thing out of your mouth is ’Sour cream’?”
”It wasn't nice to meet you. I take that part back, but the other two are cool still.”
”He's too stupid to give in to temptation.”
”Oh, we're doing this then? I guess I need to build myself a fucking exoskeleton of pillows.”
”The memory of my grandfather's name died long before I was born.”
”It’s been a while since I've gotten to rush anywhere.”
”This time I can actually give you helpful information.”
”You're acting confident because you want more money. I get it.”
”We don't want to talk about who blew who, we've got to go.”
”Look, we're not hiring. What's the situation?”
”Wait, are you Nightcrawler now?”
”Listen, I'm going to get a little existential right now.”
”We’re not LOOTING. This isn't a dungeon, it’s a place of business!”
”So you're keeping it for safekeeping and eventual convenient forgetting?”
”You've been spending a lot of time in other dimensions lately, aren't you worried about your sperm count?”
”You've gone all ”D.C. Convergence” on us.”
”I’m worried about his relationship with extra dimensional portals.”
”I want to climb your body.”
”Like some sort of prankster goat climbing the side of a mountain.”
”You need to be more careful with your belongings, I've told you this!”
”Not killing is really hard. How does Batman do it?”
”Less talky more smacky!”
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RP sentence starters from the Mountain Goats’ album Transcendental Youth (2012)
Trigger Warnings for: emetophobia, vague mentions of self harm
Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1
Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
Let people call you crazy for the choices that you make.
Just stay alive.
Play with matches if you think you need to play with matches.
Don’t hurt anybody on your way up to the light.
Find the one safe way.
Lakeside View Apartment Suite
Most nights now we sleep in the kitchen.
You can’t judge us.
Just before I leave, I throw up in the sink.
One whole life recorded in disappearing ink.
_____’s left a message thumbtacked to the door.
Cry for Judas
Some things you do just to see how bad they’ll make you feel.
I am just a broken machine.
I do things that I don’t really mean.
I’m still here.
All is lost.
Feel the storm every night, hope it passes by.
Sad and angry, can’t learn how to behave.
Harlem Roulette
It’s 1968.
Everybody’s of the clock by 10.
The loneliest people in the whole wide world are the ones you’re never going to see again.
Every dream’s a good dream.
Even awful dreams are good dreams, if you’re doing it right.
Get pretty sentimental now and then.
White Cedar
I saw the light of my spirit descend the other day.
I don’t have to be afraid.
You can’t tell me what my spirit tells me isn’t true, can you?
My visions won’t ever learn.
I’ll be reborn someday.
If I wait long enough.
I don’t wanna be afraid.
Until I am whole
Stand there and watch them drown.
I think I’ll stay here.
I think I’ll stay here ‘til I feel whole again.
On a picnic bench alone.
Watch the sky go dark.
Dig my nails into my hands, hope it leaves a mark.
Night light
She’s only passing through.
Not sure what I’m gonna do.
Plug a night light in.
Leave the porch light on.
Live like an outlaw.
Dream of maybe waking up someday, and wanting you less than I do.
This a dream, though.
It’s never gonna come true.
The Diaz Brothers
Spent the wet night tracking visions through the pines.
See the sky open up and rain down.
Hard to know who might or might not be your friend.
Hunt us like dogs.
Keep one step ahead of enemies.
Foretell worse things than such frightful nights as these.
Bury us there in the sand.
Counterfeit Florida Plates
Make a great big mess.
So many so-called friends working for the government.
Can’t quite catch ‘em all.
Wait for the coming disaster.
I could do this all day.
It seems like everyone’s cut me free.
I’ll probably pass out soon.
I can at least feel numb.
In Memory of Satan
Stayed up late and wrecked this place.
Woke up on the floor again.
Someone needs to clean up this mess.
Call in a favour from an old friend.
It’s just me.
Locked up in myself, never gonna get free.
I crawled down here to dig for bones.
One more season then I’m gone.
Spent Gladiator 2
Everybody looks surprised.
Stay in the game.
Just try to play through the pain.
Then stand there and get hit.
You’re always desperate to avoid.
Maybe spit blood at the camera.
Stay forever alive.
Transcendental Youth
I despise this town.
Hold hands.
Rise in the darkness.
Sing for ourselves alone.
Soar ever-upwards.
Let the music play.
Learn some secrets.
Never tell.
Stay sick.
Don’t get well.
Ride the highest wave.
Try to explain ourselves.
By the time you receive this, we’ll be gone.
Sing one for the old times.
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"THE SUNSET TREE" STARTERS
taken from the album by the mountain goats. feel free to change pronouns, etc. tw for mentions/implications of familial abuse, drug use, and suicide
"i walked down to the corner store just before nightfall in my bare feet, the black tarry asphalt soft and hot."
"i spread out my supplies on the counter by the sink, looked myself right in the eyes: st. joseph's baby aspirin, bartles and jaymes, and you. or your memory."
"i ducked behind the drapes when i saw the moon begin to rise."
"down there in the dark, i could see the real truth about me as clear as day."
"if i make it through tonight, then i will mend my ways and walk the straight path to the end of my days."
"my friends don't have a clue."
"down in your arms, i am a wild creature."
"i write down good reasons to freeze to death in my spiral ring notebook."
"i write down good reasons to freeze to death in my spiral ring notebook—but in the long tresses of your hair, i am a babbling brook."
"i broke free on a saturday morning, put the pedal to the floor."
"my broken house is behind me and good things are ahead."
"i am going to make it through this year if it kills me."
"i pictured the look on my stepfather's face, ready for the bad things to come."
"the scene ends badly, as you might imagine, in a cavalcade of anger and fear."
"there will be feasting and dancing in jerusalem next year."
"the delicate balance has shifted."
"let's pretend the fog has lifted."
"now you say you love me, pretty soon you won't."
"if we get our full three-score and ten, we won't pass this way again."
"kiss me with your mouth open."
"stay sweet."
"if we live to see the other side of this, i will remember your kiss."
"indications that there's something wrong with our new house trip down the wire twice daily."
"you're the last best thing i've got going."
"what am i supposed to do? no way of knowing."
"so i'll follow you down your twisted alleyways and find a few cul-de-sacs of my own, because there's only one place this road ever ends up, and i don't want to die alone."
"let me down gently."
"you were looking at the void and seldom blinking. the best that i could do was to train my eyes on you."
"we scaled the hidden hills beneath the surface, scraped our fingers bloody on the stones."
"we kept our friends at bay all summer long and treated the days as though they'd kill us if they could."
"we were wringing out the hours like blood-drenched bedsheets to keep wintertime at bay, but december showed up anyway."
"i went downtown, sold off most of what i owned."
"there's bound to be a ghost at the back of your closet, no matter where you live."
"there'll always be a few things, maybe several things, that you're going to find really difficult to forgive."
"there's gonna come a day when you feel better. just when that day is coming, who can say?"
"they will shake their heads and wag their bony fingers in all the wrong directions, and by daybreak we'll be gone."
"by daybreak, we'll be gone."
"i'm going to get myself in fighting trim, scope out every angle of unfair advantage."
"i'm gonna bribe the officials. i'm gonna kill all the judges. it's gonna take them years to recover from all of the damage."
"when your chances fall in your lap like that, you gotta recognize them for what they really are."
"nobody in this house wants to own up to the truth."
"i am going to regret the day that i was born."
"i'm dreaming of you."
"there's no good way to end this, anyone can see."
"i am young and i am good."
"if i wake him up, there will be hell to pay."
"alone in my room, i am the last of a lost civilization."
"but i do wake him up, and when i do he blazes down the hall and he screams."
"held under these smothering waves by his strong and thick-veined hand, but one of these days i'm going to wiggle up on dry land."
"try hard to do your best, the magpie will have his way."
"remember what we had here when there was something left to save."
"it took all the coke in town to bring down dennis brown. on the day my lung collapses, we'll see just how much it takes."
"some things you do for money, and some you do for love."
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💗 Powerpuff Girls S1 Sentence Starters -- Part 2 of 2 💗
My doctor told me to cut down on justice.
We’ve. . .just grown apart, you see, and. . .well, there’s somebody else, I’m sorry, we can still be friends, goodbye.
We have to expose him for the phony that he is. But how?
I set up all of those other disasters so I could go in, save everyone, and get all the fame and glory.
You were perfect. No one suspected we set the whole thing up.
He’s with me, but not by choice! I took him and he didn’t like it!
Do you really think I would harm my own father?
Evil geniuses are made, not born.
I was completely overshadowed by your tremendous physical powers!
I don’t believe it! We had our very own pet monkey?
Now I’m a vengeful, mad genius bent on destroying mankind. . .with SUPERPOWERS!
Has this sibling rivalry come to an end?
Not with mechanical machine will I destroy this planet, but with my own bare hands!
I’ve dedicated my life to destroying what I had a hand in creating.
I like to eat gooey paste! ‘Cause I’m stupid!
You know better than that! Now apologize right this instant!
It’s an imitatable act. If the other kids were to see you doing it, they might want to do it too.
Not so fast, paste eater!
This oatmeal’s too hot!
I can’t make the ice come out.
Try not to make your sisters too jealous.
How come your sisters are so mean?
Way to go, ice princess.
Buzz! I’m gonna get you!
You’re not ready for the higher levels yet. Don’t worry, cheer up. Someday you will be.
Everyone knows you’re the scarediest.
I’ll show them. I’ll prove that I can be HARDCORE!
Well, I may be able to talk, but I sure as heck can’t drive.
AND I’M NOT A BABY!
Take this! And that! And this! And this! And that!
You can start by signing some very important documents on your desk.
Where am I? Why can’t I see? Wait! And why can’t I move my arms and legs?
I blindfolded and tied you up in order to keep the whereabouts of my secret lair a secret!
I was drawing a pretty picture of a red daisy, but then [name] came along and said that the red daisy was biogenetically impossible!
I knew there was trouble, and I had to act fast.
Why were you laughing so much? My life was at stake!
Boy, was he mad. There was steam coming out of his ears!
You don’t even know how to tell a good bedtime story!
That’s all okey-dokey, peachy keen, fine and dandy, but you never explained what was so gosh darn funny!
We’re not keeping that stinky fleabag because I’m gonna end up feeding it, and cleaning it, and loving it.
Well, there was this bad man, and he had this raygun.
If we didn’t have to sit through your ridiculous ramblings, we’d be halfway to solving this!
I dreamed I was hypnotized by a cat, we stole a jewel, and I jumped off a building! Pretty crazy, huh?
If George Washington used snails instead of greyhounds to pull his sled, there’d be no trees for Honest Abe to shove from the highest mountain.
I love to kiss all of those adorable babies!
If I have to milk another goat, I’m gonna be sick!
I must remember to destroy those kids after my breakfast has been eaten.
Can you please direct me to the location of where I may locate some eggs? For I would like to purchase them, so that they can travel home with me and I can eat them today.
I must attend to the dishes that I have soiled with the food that I have eaten.
I think our ball crashed through your window. Can we have it back?
I must reiterate: no touching of anything!
Listen to my singing, it could last for quite a while!
WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE COLOR?!
What do you mean, whatever?! We can’t live in a world without color! Mother Nature has big, big plans with color, and it just can’t be taken away!
You can’t park next to a fire hydrant!
You like things to be black and white, huh? Well, how would you like to be black and blue?
You can’t hurt me with the things that you do. I’ll pick up dandelions and I’ll give them to you.
Who do you think you are anyway, pops?
You don’t want to kick MY butt. My butt is as rotten as yours. What you want are butts settled on the throne of justice!
I think they’re asking for a hiney-whooping!
It takes more than a couple of cheap shots to make us cry.
Furthermore, every Wednesday will be Pretzel Day.
Good thing we had those burritos for lunch.
You’ve just been attacking the problem from the wrong angle.
Promise me you’ll use it. Promise?
Now it’s time for some super rest and relaxation.
It’s root beer time!
Can’t you come back later? It’s Saturday!
Back, you bad, old, giant fish balloon!
Well, um. . .eh. . .gotta go!
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TALLAHASSEE SENTENCE STARTERS
taken from the mountain goats album. tws for toxic relationships and mentions of alcoholism. feel free to change pronouns, etc.
TALLAHASSEE
"i pray to summon the destroying angel."
"there is no deadline, there is no schedule."
"there is no plan we can fall back on."
"the road this far can't be retraced."
"there is no punchline anybody can tack on."
"there are loose ends by the score. what did i come down here for?"
"what did i come down here for? you."
FIRST FEW DESPERATE HOURS
"bad luck comes in on the back of a truck."
"we try to keep our spirits high, but they flag and they wane."
"let the good times roll on through these first few desperate hours."
"the sun peeks in like a killer through the curtain."
"we keep up the good fight. we keep our spirits light."
SOUTHWOOD PLANTATION ROAD
"i've got you. you've got whatever's left of me to get."
"our conversations are like minefields: no one's found a safe way through one yet."
"i'll spend a lot of money, i'll buy you white gold."
"all night long you giggle and scream."
"i am not going to lose you."
"i am not going to lose you. we are going to stay married in this house like a louisiana graveyard, where nothing stays buried."
"the dead will walk again, put on their sunday best, and mingle with unsuspecting christian men."
GAME SHOWS TOUCH OUR LIVES
"that stuff tastes like medicine, but i'll take it. it'll do."
"i'm in the mood for you."
"i held onto you with a desperate strength, with everything in me."
"it's a drink of the lovely little thing on which our survival depends."
"people say friends don't destroy one another... what do they know about friends?"
"everything's gonna be okay soon. maybe tomorrow, maybe the next day."
"cars are headed down to oblivion up on the expressway."
"your drunken kiss is as light as the air."
"maybe everything that falls down eventually rises."
THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD
"look beyond the broken bottles, past the rotting wooden stairs."
"not everyone can live like billionaires."
"tear up the floorboards."
"grab your hat, get your coat."
"dig up the laughing photographs, they're here somewhere or other."
"take what you can carry, but let me tell you: still water's going stagnant, bodies bloat, and the cellar door is an open throat."
IDYLLS OF TKING
"this day is full of promise and potential."
"our shared paths are unraveling behind us like ribbons."
"i dreamed of vultures in the trees around our house."
"how long will we ride this wave out?"
"how long till someone caves under the pressure?"
"my dreams are haunted by armies of ghosts. faces too blurry to make out, numbers far too high to measure."
"your eyes are twin volcanoes, bad ideas dancing around in there."
NO CHILDREN
"i hope that our few remaining friends give up on trying to save us. i hope we come up with a fail-safe plot to piss off the dumb few that forgave us."
"i hope the fences we mended fall down beneath their own weight."
"i hope it's already too late."
"i hope the junkyard a few blocks from here someday burns down, and i hope the rising black smoke carries me far away and i never come back to this town again."
"i hope i lie and tell everyone you were a good wife."
"i hope you die."
"i hope you die. i hope we both die."
"our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises. i'm pretty sure they're all wrong."
"i hope it stays dark forever. i hope the worst isn't over."
"i hope you blink before i do, and i hope i never get sober."
"i hope when you think of me years down the line, you can't find one good thing to say."
"i hope that if i found the strength to walk out, you'd stay the hell out of my way."
"i am drowning. there is no sign of land."
"you are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand."
SEE AMERICA RIGHT
"the radiator burst."
"i was three sheets to the wind."
"your love is like a cyclone in a swamp, and the weather's getting warmer."
"you said you'd hop on one yourself and meet me on the way down."
"i'm shaking way too hard to think."
"i'm dead on my feet."
"if we never make it back, i want you to know i love you."
"my love is like a dark cloud full of rain that's always right there up above you."
PEACOCKS
"grab hold of the morning."'
"i fear for my safety. you can see it in my eyes."
"sun's all prickly on my neck."
"seize opportunity right where it lies."
"the sky will fall, we will rise."
INTERNATIONAL SMALL ARMS TRAFFIC BLUES
"my love is like a powder keg."
"my love is like a powder keg in the corner of an empty warehouse, somewhere just outside of town, about to burn down."
"our love is like the border between greece and albania."
"there is a shortage in the blood supply, but there is no shortage of blood."
"the way i feel about you, baby, i can't explain it."
"you got the best of my love."
HAVE TO EXPLODE
"someone's gonna do something someone else will regret."
"i speak in smoke signals, and you answer in code."
"something here will eventually have to explode."
"name one thing about us two anyone could love."
"we roll out the red carpet when rotten luck comes down the road."
OLD COLLEGE TRY
"the warning signs have all been bright and garish, far too great in number to ignore."
"our love has never had a leg to stand on."
"but i will walk down to the end with you if you will come all the way down with me."
"i want to say i'm sorry for stuff i haven't done yet."
"things will shortly get completely out of hand: i can feel it in the rotten air tonight."
"in the weak last gasp of the evening's dying light, those eyes i've always loved illuminate this place."
"your eyes illuminate this place like the trashcan fire in a prison cell. like the searchlights in the parking lots of hell."
OCEANOGRAPHER'S CHOICE
"i don't know why i'm so persuaded that if i think things through long enough and hard enough, i'll somehow get to you."
"would you look at that, we're throwing off sparks."
"what will i do when i don't have you to hold onto in the dark?"
"everybody's gonna need a witness."
"everybody's gonna need a little backup in case the scene gets nasty."
"i don't know why it's gotten harder to keep myself away."
"i thought i'd finally beat the feeling back, but it all came back today.""
"we knocked the dresser over."
"i don't mean it when i tell you that i don't love you anymore."
ALPHA RATS NEST
"we do our best vampire routines as we suck the dying hours dry."
"the night is lovely as a rrose."
"if i see sunlight hit you, i am sure that we'll both decompose."
"some day we'll both wake up for good, and i will try hard not to scream."
"i've got something hateful on my mind."
"sing for the dying of the day."
"sing for the damage we've done, and the worse things that we'll do."
"open your mouth up and sing for me now, and i will sing for you."
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THE MOUNTAIN GOATS ‘ BLEED OUT ’ STARTERS
taken from the 2022 album. feel free to change pronouns, etc. mentions of violence & death (kinda the whole theme of the album).
‘ it feels like it takes forever. ’
‘ i’m doing this for revenge. ’
‘ i’m doing this to try and stay true. ’
‘ i’m doing this for the ones i had to leave behind. ’
‘ i’m doing this for you. ’
‘ everybody’s ready for justice. ’
‘ just another mile to go. ’
‘ it’s gonna get so dark for you. ’
‘ i’m gonna leave a mark on you. ’
‘ you can’t trust anybody. ’
‘ even the tough ones crack. ’
‘ train up a swordsman, he’ll stab you in the back. ’
‘ i know this much is true: i’m gonna leave a mark on you. ’
‘ that mark is going to be visible from several blocks away. ’
‘ maybe you’ll make it to the far side of the hill. ’
‘ maybe you’ll see me coming. but i don’t think you will. ’
‘ make peace with your family. ’
‘ floor the pedal at the green light. ’
‘ be flexible. be unreplaceable. in a world of heavy footprints, be untraceable. ’
‘ wage war, get rich, die handsome. ’
‘ live once, you get to pay twice. ’
‘ keep your nose clean. ’
‘ there’s open highway on the horizon. ’
‘ stay independent, make adjustments as needed. ’
‘ it’s losers all the way down. ’
‘ you never learn to tell the difference between the probable projections and the best parts of the dream. ’
‘ the fragments that stick with you, the ones you really feel? those parts aren’t real. ’
‘ it’s almost out of reach, but not quite. ’
‘ i stay up thinking about it all night. ’
‘ i’ve waited so long for days like these. ’
‘ i’m tired of living on my knees. ’
‘ if you don’t hear from me, let them all go free. ’
‘ the angles you don’t plan for, the things you might have missed? those things exist. ’
‘ under the waxing winter sun, i feel like we’re almost gone. ’
‘ just pick a lane and drive right through. i’m headed off to freedom with you. ’
‘ there’s dreams in the future up in the front of my mind. we’ll leave a couple dozen bodies behind. ’
‘ never any call for a lone wolf. ’
‘ you have to learn to go with the flow. ’
‘ they’re always gonna need a little muscle. ’
‘ if you prove yourself worthy of trust, your bones don’t rust. ’
‘ i haven’t checked a mirror in years. ’
‘ show up five minutes early, as usual. ’
‘ i’m working on just a couple hours’ rest. ’
‘ i’m always on the edge of collapse, now, and absolutely nobody cares. ’
‘ everybody loves a professional. ’
‘ shall we rise to the occasion? ’
‘ we worship nothing in the foxholes. ’
‘ i’m going to rise up early every day. ’
‘ i keep a secret chamber in my heart clean. ’
‘ i’m going to remain positive and stay on the grind. ’
‘ banish every other thought from my mind. ’
‘ i’m going to make you suffer. ’
‘ there’s nobody here to sound the alarm. ’
‘ the first in line will receive the full brunt of the blow. ’
‘ people tell me their dreams grow distant, and they learn to love the lives they lead. ’
‘ no more hungry ghosts in the chimney to feed. ’
‘ someday, i will see you on your knees. ’
‘ say what you like. there won’t be anybody listening. ’
‘ they’re about to make their play for me. ’
‘ i will rise. ’
‘ i’ve got guys on every corner. ’
‘ you won’t remember their faces later. ’
‘ there may come a day someday when we all look back and laugh. ’
‘ we may run out of bullets. ’
‘ i’ll be the one who makes the final decision. ’
‘ if there’s one thing i love, it’s an infinite resource. ’
‘ when you know you’ll never make it out alive, you kind of get to live out your dream. ’
‘ it’s gonna be a rough ride from here down to the exit. ’
‘ i did not seek out the mission, but the mission found me. ’
‘ i mean to learn what it’s like to be free. ’
‘ we do get desperate, now and again. ’
‘ we’re gonna need more bandages. ’
‘ victory awaits with the dawn. ’
‘ there’s several fairly weighty problems. ’
‘ it’s the only way to be sure. ’
‘ only the desperate ever make it to the exit. ’
‘ there’s a lot of things that can happen all for the want of a nail. ’
‘ every time they knock me down, i rise to my feet. ’
‘ every time i take a bullet, they find a medic to patch me up real neat. ’
‘ you only have to run the numbers to know: sooner or later, everybody’s gotta go. ’
‘ i’m gonna bleed out. ’
‘ there won’t be anyone waiting to rush me to safety. ’
‘ i’m gonna let the long night take me. ’
‘ every story needs a child who believes the brave hero’s gonna be just fine. ’
‘ some of these children will end up just like me. ’
‘ i’m gonna make a gigantic mess. ’
‘ it meant something important, i guess. ’
‘ i can’t swim. ’
‘ there was a chance we’d make it through this. it’s safe to say now that we’ve missed it. ’
‘ i won’t ever lose hope. ’
‘ i haven’t lost hope. i’m just realistic. ’
‘ i will go down punching, but i will go down. ’
‘ there won’t be any words of wisdom from me. ’
‘ i’m gonna go tell my friends to all go to hell, and wish my enemies well. ’
‘ if it’s blood you want, i’ve got plenty of it. ’
‘ you’re gonna love it. ’
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THE MOUNTAIN GOATS ‘SONGS FOR PIERRE CHUVIN’ STARTERS
feel free to change pronouns, etc.
AULON RAID
‘ come riding with your soldiers, see how they fare. ’
‘ keep yourself out of the action. ’
‘ your reputation precedes you. ’
‘ something must be done. ’
‘ me and my crew, we will deal with you. ’
‘ come screaming for tribute, go out on your back. ’
UNTIL OLYMPIUS RETURNS
‘ i go through the motions every day. ’
‘ listen for the hidden rhythms on the air. ’
‘ look for a beacon from the north. ’
‘ protect yourself. ’
‘ this is just a momentary ripple in the stream. ’
‘ taste everything they feed you, say it tastes real great. then spit it down your sleeve every time you get the chance. ’
‘ this is just a brief improvisation in the dance. ’
‘ is it not a thing of beauty? ’
‘ don’t it make you feel good? ’
‘ is it not a big improvement on the way things used to be. ’
‘ we will be right here on the day it finally burns. ’
‘ everybody hold a spot until olympus returns. ’
LAST GASP AT CALAMA
‘ out in the street, free and young, songs of the great god wild on my tongue. ’
‘ let he who’s without sin throw the first one, like you said. let anyone else throw the second, as long as it connects with your head. ’
‘ one summer, then all of this is gone. ’
‘ hand me a torch, why not. let’s get some kicks in while the flame’s still hot. ’
‘ they’ll do what they were gonna do anyway. ’
FOR THE SNAKES
‘ we will have uses for these things when we come. ’
‘ these will be seen in all their glory. ’
‘ all your abandoned things—once fine vestments, statues with wings—they have their uses, every one. ’
‘ the pale imitations that you brought back from afar, we will show them to you as they are. ’
THE WOODED HILLS ALONG THE BLACK SEA
‘ i cause no trouble, keep to my own kind. ’
‘ we serve who we serve. ’
‘ the burden of exile gets easy to bear. ’
‘ i sometimes forget there’s cities down there. ’
‘ we will never run out of trees. ’
JANUARY 31, 438
‘ when the hunger turns in on itself, it begins to devour its host. ’
‘ who do you turn to for help? ’
‘ who do you love the most? ’
‘ i’ll dance with the one that brought me here. ’
‘ the word came down the wire that they’re looking to make an example of you. ’
‘ there’s no good end in view. ’
‘ i dance in the dark, all alone. ’
‘ i dance for the god on the throne. ’
‘ if they come catch me and arrest me mid-step, let me go down dancing. ’
‘ let me be the last one left. ’
‘ when the hunger’s all that holds you together, who do you want by your side? ’
HOPEFUL ASSASSINS OF ZENO
‘ i get tired of coming in from the mountains every year. ’
‘ we could find some place to set up shop around here. ’
‘ how long till we get sent back to the mountains? ’
‘ it all depends on the hopeful, and the cunning, and the faithful. ’
‘ get familiar with affairs of state. ’
‘ be nice to the guys who wear necklaces with crosses; they will stab you in the back. ’
‘ you gotta turn the other cheek. you gotta learn to love jesus, so to speak. ’
‘ these people never learn. ’
‘ how long till the snake devours its tail? longer than we think. ’
‘ it’s gotta happen sometime. until then, take a drink. ’
‘ take a drink. ’
THEIR GODS DO NOT HAVE SURGEONS
‘ they came like beasts who’d tasted blood: first a few, and then the flood. ’
‘ return the peace you took from me. ’
‘ show us the goodwill you were shown, but leave us alone. ’
‘ my hunger is like a worm inside me. ’
‘ no sacred place could be denied you. ’
‘ they who talk all day of beauty call all the plain things dirty. ’
‘ give me back what you’ve destroyed. ’
‘ you, who come demanding proof: let your god rebuild this roof. ’
‘ make it whole again if you can. ’
GOING TO LEBANON 2
‘ there’s always some desperate people there. ’
‘ anywhere people congregate for pleasure, they’ll go hunting for treasure. ’
‘ pick up the faint, faint scent of the faith of our fathers. ’
‘ their names were once known to me. ’
‘ i hear them sometimes on the song of the sea. ’
‘ take note of what will be gone in the blink of an eye. ’
‘ you can set your watch by these guys. ’
‘ we’ll be high on the highway before they’ve even opened their eyes. ’
‘ it never gets old. ’
EXEGETIC CHAINS
‘ the songs you sing at christmas time, the stories that you tell, well, i knew them well. ’
‘ say your prayers to whomever you call out to in the night. ’
‘ make it through this year if it kills you outright. ’
‘ the places where we met to share our secrets now and then, we will see them again. ’
‘ change will come. ’
‘ stay warm inside the ripple of the panasonic hum. it grinds and it roars. ’
‘ i’m headed somewhere better if i have to crawl there on all fours. ’
‘ we’ll make it through this year if it kills us outright. ’
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DARK IN HERE STARTERS
taken from the 2021 album by the mountain goats
PARISIAN ENCLAVE
' let the devil take the rest. '
' walls envelop all of us like a mother who protects her young. '
' i go beneath the streets of the city with my brethren in the neverending shadow. '
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE KOLA SUPERDEEP BOREHOLE TOWER
' stick bright reflective tape to the collar of your shirt. '
' mind your business, and you won't get hurt. '
' be true to the things you said you'd be true to. '
' always keep your objective in view. '
' those who came to learn these lessons left no trace of their presence. '
' show the world your true face. '
' burn such fuel as you need to burn. '
' keep a sense of wonder when you finally reach your goal. '
' what will they say back home about you? '
MOBILE
' they threw him down into the water, but he did not drown. '
' be free of your burden. '
' i'm on a balcony waiting for the wind to throw me down. '
' if you won't keep me safe and warm, then send down the storm. '
' why do you hold back your fury? '
' don't hold back your fury. '
DARK IN HERE
' steal away at sundown. '
' check for signs of ambush. '
' i'm tired of running, tired of never standing still. '
' hear them riding up the hill? '
' it's high noon somewhere, but it's dark in here. '
' you, who thirst for action: i will give you some. '
' when the smoke dies down, you can rest assured that we will know who kept their word. '
' you stood so proud once. '
' i can taste your fear. '
' it's dark as a coal mine filling up with gas. '
' will you be ready when your moment comes? '
' i live in the darkness. '
LIZARD SUIT
' take the trouble to pronounce the street names right; people like it when you show respect. '
' it's so hard to get noticed in this town. '
' you're almost invisible aboard the train. '
' there's so many people who i just can't read. '
' i have to trust that my compass stays true. '
' i let my phobias control my habits, and i let my habits form the shapes of days. '
WHEN A POWERFUL ANIMAL COMES
' we move by night. '
' we'll follow the shoreline until we've run clean out of land. '
' we've made mistakes. '
' everyone spots their own mess when the dawn breaks. '
' life is short, and life is hard, and life is sweet. '
' they will never know what hit them. '
' it gets pretty hard to concentrate. '
TO THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN
' i rode past you on the road again today. '
' who awakes prepared to face such sights as these? '
' god keep the hunter who shows mercy to his prey. '
' as you approached, i could sense the threat. '
' a stranger's just a friend who hasn't shared their secrets yet. '
' songs bloom in the dark. '
' i seek the gate of wisdom. '
' get ready for the waterworks. '
' one of us will tire, and one will rise and ride away. '
THE NEW HYDRA COLLECTION
' i'm hell bent on doing the work that you cowards won't do. '
' we're weaving the future from bright new threads. '
' i dream of the day when the calm waters break. '
' the safe way isn't the only way to go. '
' it's only a test run. '
' the tension's too delicious to bear. '
' according to my projections, everybody's going to run for their lives. '
' wait until our time has come. '
THE SLOW PARTS ON DEATH METAL ALBUMS
' i'm jumping out of my skin. '
' this tiny sector can't contain me. '
' i go where i'm not wanted. '
' i'm trying to find the mask that fits me. '
' let me dance until i die. '
' let it begin with me. '
' we're never quite free. '
BEFORE I GOT THERE
' the relics are all in ruin. '
' it's illegible forever. '
' it's an oracle with no tongue. '
' the bodies of the fallen are in a pit behind the altar. '
' their faces were turned toward the sky that they would never see again. '
' i have failed you. '
ARGUING WITH THE GHOST OF PETER LAUGHNER ABOUT HIS CONEY ISLAND BABY REVIEW
' will there be another way? '
' you took the ancient spell with you wen you fell. '
' i hurt too hard, too long, and i'll die too young. '
' may your passage be assured. '
' you will always have been here once. '
LET ME BATHE IN DEMONIC LIGHT
' someday, the old flesh will give way to the new. '
' find a functioning mirror inside, and slip right through. '
' who's coming with me? '
' show me my one true face. '
' i'm hopeless, but free. '
' you're lit up like a marquee shining over the freeway. '
' where will my long trail end? '
' there's undying hunger deep in the bloodline. '
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