all taken from the national’s 2013 album.
anything in parentheses can be added to the original sentence.
- don’t make me read your mind.
- you should know better than that.
- i should leave it alone but you’re not right.
- can you turn the tv down?
- i’m going through an awkward phase.
- can i stay here? ( i can sleep on the floor. )
- it’s a sign that someone loves me.
- i have only two emotions – careful fear and dead devotion.
- i’m not alone. ( i’ll never be. )
- you keep a lot of secrets.
- you’re fireproof. it’s just the way you are.
- nothing breaks your heart.
- if i stay here, trouble will find me.
- hey ___, sorry i hurt you, but they say love is a virtue don’t they?
- i could walk out, but i won’t.
- if you lose me, i’m gonna die.
- let’s go wait out in the fields with the ones we love.
- in my mind, i am in your arms.
- you don’t think before you jump.
- this is the last time.
- just let me hear your voice. ( just let me listen. )
- now i know what dying means.
- i am not my rosy self.
- if you’re dead in the mind, it’ll brighten the place.
- there’s a science to walking through windows.
- i’m having trouble inside my skin.
- i’ll be a friend and a fuck-up.
- i don’t need any help to be breakable, believe me.
- i won’t need any help to be lonely when you leave me.
- remember when you lost your shit and drove the car into the garden?
- i need my girl.
- i keep feeling smaller and smaller.
- the surprise of the week is that i never heard the sound.
- she wore blue velvet.
- i didn’t ask for this pain. ( it just came over me. )
- i love a storm, but i don’t love lightning.
- i was coming back from what seemed like a ruin.
- i’m so surprised you want to dance with me now.
- you said it would be painless. ( it wasn’t that at all. )
- there’s a lot i’ve not forgotten.
- i don’t know why we had to lose the ones who took so little space.
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