taylor swift // red (taylorās version) from the vaults edition rp meme.
edit/alter/change pronouns etc as you see fit!
ronan.
i remember your little laugh.
i love you to the moon and back.
i remember your blue eyes looking into mine.
i can still feel you hold my hand.
you fought it hard like an army guy.
come on, baby, with me, weāre gonna fly away from here.
you were my best four years.
blind hope turned to crying and screaming āwhy?ā
no one knows what to say.
itās about to be halloween.
you could be anything you wanted if you were still here.
i remember the last day.
what if iām standing in your closet trying to talk to you?
what if i kept the hand-me-downs you wonāt grow into?
what if i really thought some miracle would see us through?
what if the miracle was even getting one moment with you?
better man.
i know iām probably better off on my own.
i see the permanent damage you did to me.
i just wish i could forget when it was magic.
i wish it wasnāt 4am.
you know you had to do it.
i know the bravest thing i ever did was run.
sometimes, in the middle of the night, i can feel you again.
i just miss you.
i just wish you were a better man.
i know why we had to say goodbye.
i know iām probably better of all alone.
it was always on your terms.
i waited on every careless word.
your jealousy, oh, i can hear it now.
talking down to me like iād always be around.
push my love away like it was some kind of loaded gun.
you never thought iād run.
i hold onto this pride because these days itās all i have.
i have to you my best and we both know you canāt say that.
i wonder what we wouldāve become.
we might still be in love.
nothing new.
they hunt and slay.
criticize the way you fly.
looks like sheās been through it.
what will become of me?
what will become of me once iāve lost my novelty?
iāve had too much to drink tonight.
i know itās sad, but this is what i think about.
itās like i can feel time moving.
how can a person know everything at eighteen, but nothing at twenty-two?
will you still want me when iām nothing new?
how long will it be cute?
you canāt blame it on my youth.
my cheeks are growing tired from turning red and faking smiles.
are we only biding time till i lose your attention?
itās a fever dream.
babe.
what about your promises?
didnāt wanna be the one that got away?
you broke the sweetest promise.
you broke the sweetest promise that you never should have made.
you call, but i wonāt hear it.
how could you do this?
you said āno one else.ā
you really blew this.
we aināt getting through this one.
this is the last time iāll ever call you.
itās strange how your face doesnāt look so innocent.
your secret has its consequences.
thatās on you.
i break down every time you call.
weāre a wreck.
weāre a wreck, youāre the wrecking ball.
her lips on your neck, i canāt unsee.
i canāt love you.
message in a bottle.
i know that you like me, and itās kinda frightening.
i know that you like me.
i became hypnotized by freckles and bright eyes.
youāre so far away.
iām reaching for you.
iām reaching for you, terrified.
you could be the one that i love.
i could be the one that you dream of.
a message in a bottle is all i can do, standing here, hoping it gets to you.
you could be the one that i keep.
i could be the reason you canāt sleep at night.
these days iām restless.
workdays are endless.
look how you made me.
time moves faster.
i bet you think about me.
iāll bet youāre just fine.
the girl in your best has a fine pedigree.
iāll bet your friends tell you sheās better than me.
i tried to fit in with your upper-crust circles.
they let me sit back when we were in love.
they sit around talking about the meaning of life.
weāre done and itās over.
i bet you couldnāt believe when you realised iām harder to forget than i was to leave.
iām harder to forget than i was to leave.
i bet you think about me.
you canāt help who you fall for.
you said weāre too different.
you laughed at my dreams, rolled your eyes at my jokes.
do you have all the space that you need?
i donāt have to be your shrink to know that youāll never be happy.
the love that youāre looking for is the love that you had.
last time you felt free was when none of that shit mattered.
you were with me.
forever winter.
why fall in love, just so you can watch it go away?
he spends most of his nights wishing it was how it used to be.
itās not just a phase iām in.
my voice comes out begging.
all this time i didnāt know you were breaking down.
iād fall to pieces on the floor if you werenāt around.
too young to know it gets better.
iāll be summer sun for you forever.
iāll be summer sun for you forever, forever winter if you go.
he seems fine most of the time.
his laugh is a symphony.
when the lights go out, itās hard to breathe.
i pull at every thread trying to solve the puzzles in his head.
live my life scared to death heāll decide to leave instead.
my voice comes out screaming.
iād take that bomb in your head and disarm it.
iād say i love you even at your darkest.
please donāt go.
believe in one thing: i wonāt go away.
i donāt go away.
run.
we shouldnāt be in this town.
iād drive away before i let you go.
give me a reason and donāt say no.
iāll wait for you.
darling, letās run, run from it all.
we can go where our eyes can take us.
go where no one else is.
iāll sing like no one cares.
i could see this view a hundred times.
since i gave it to you, thereās a heart on your sleeve.
thereās been this hole in my heart.
this thing was a shot in the dark.
say youāll never let āem tear us apart.
iāll hold onto you while we run.
the very first night.
i wish i could fly.
i wish i could fly. iād pick you up and weād go back in time.
i miss you like it was the very first night.
i donāt seem brokenhearted.
my friends say they know everything iām going through.
i drive down different roads, but they all lead back to you.
they werenāt riding in the car when we both fell.
they donāt know how much i miss you.
we never saw it coming.
not trying to fall in love, but we did.
we didnāt know we were built to fall apart.
we were built to fall apart.
we broke each otherās hearts.
donāt forget about the night out in LA.
no one knows about the words that we whispered.
take me away.
take me away to you.
do you know how much i miss you?
i wish that we could go back in time.
all too well (10 minute version)
something about it felt like home somehow.
i left my scarf there.
youāve still got it in your drawer, even now.
your sweet disposition and my wide eyed gaze.
weāre singing in the car, getting lost upstate.
autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place.
i can picture it after all these days.
i know itās long gone.
the magicās not here no more.
i might be okay but iām not fine at all.
iām not fine at all.
i remember it all too well.
you tell me bout your past, thinking your future was me.
fuck the patriarchy.
we were always skipping town.
any time now, heās gonna say itās love.
you never called it what it was.
you never called it what it was till we were dead and gone and buried.
after three months in the grave.
all i felt was shame.
you held my lifeless frame.
i forget about you long enough to forget why i needed to.
coz there were are again in the middle of the night.
nobody had to know.
you kept me like a secret, but i kept you like an oath.
you kept me like a secret.
i kept you like an oath.
weād swear to remember it all too well.
maybe we got lost in translation.
maybe i asked for too much.
maybe this thing was a masterpiece till you torn it all up.
running scared, i was there.
you call me up again just to break me like a promise.
so casually cruel in the name of being honest.
iām a crumbled up piece of paper lying here.
they say allās well that ends well.
but iām in a new hell every time you double-cross my mind.
iām in a new hell.
you said if we had been closer in age maybe it would have been fine.
that made me want to die.
the idea you had of me, who was she?
a never needing, ever lovely jewel whose shine reflects on you.
you, thatās what happened.
itās supposed to be fun, turning twenty-one.
time wonāt fly, itās like iām paralyzed by it.
iād like to be my old self again.
iād like to be my old self again, but iām still trying to find it.
i walk home alone.
it reminds you of innocence.
you canāt get rid of it.
it was rare, i was there.
i was never good at telling jokes, but the punch line goes: iāll get older but your loves stay my age.
iām a soldier whoās returning half her weight.
did the twin flame bruise paint you blue?
just between us, did the love affair maim you too?
did the love affair maim you too?
i still remember the first fall of snow.
do you remember it all too well?
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book meme / misc. stories, jacqueline woodson
content warning for blood and violence.
from the notebooks of melanin sun
here i am. alive.
this is all anybody needs to be happy.
you planning on staying awhile?
donāt keep me hanging.
and youāre important to me.
the world doesnāt work that way.
and when i canāt speak it, i write it down.
it feels right and whole and good.
donāt even try it.
thereāll be a hundred names for him. but heāll know who he is.
just to let us know weāre still alive.
iāll get it.
the bad kind.
i donāt believe you.
this is the last one.
you just donāt want it to happen, thatās all.
boy, iāll go upside your head so hard you gonna wish you was never born.
i wish it didnāt matter so much. but it does, doesnāt it?
these are my notebooks. my stories.
itās like that in our house.
what do you mean, whatās up with that?
so i keep quiet.Ā
what time is it?
i want to do the right thing.
i wish i was different.
iām on the outside of things.
sometimes, i donāt have words.Ā
miracleās boys
you ready?
i almost said, too.
feels like being a stranger in your own house, like everything that used to mean something doesnāt anymore. even your own name.
they donāt mess with me, i donāt mess with them.
you donāt know nothing about me, little boy.
if i was real quiet, it was like i was invisible.
no you. no more.
whatās wrong with you, man?
what made you cold?
nobody in this room talking to you. you hear anybody call your name?
thatās why iām here asking you.
then you had to go and open your fat mouth.
like a clock ticking away somebodyās life.
reddest blood iād ever seen in my life.
i know he didnāt kill anybody.
if theyāre fast enough.
thatās cold, man.
blow somebodyās head off.
thatās what you think, stupid.
locomotion
i used to talk all the time.
youāll sleep in here.
i felt safe then.
whereās that boy i used to know, the one who couldnāt be quiet?
and then i leave fast.
that aināt right.
but i was just a little kid and nobody else was around.
you need to laugh sometimes.
some days, like today and yesterday and probably tomorrow, thatās all thatās on my mind.
and my voice got quieter. and quieter. and quiet.
this aināt much, but itās all i have.
the monsters that come at night donāt breathe fire, have two heads or long claws.
but i donāt.
last night this commercial came on tv.
i look at my knuckles.
sometimes i sit counting the stars.
the kind of crying where no tears came out.
i mean, weāre not supposed to want to.
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