Perspective's Sentence Starters; The Family Jewels by Marina (Part II)
HERMIT THE FROG
"I feel I'm watered down whenever he's around."
"I feel it coming on when I've been static for too long."
"You used to be so kind."
"I never knew you had such a dirty mind."
"I went to the doctors believing the devil had control over me."
"I was finding it hard to breathe."
"Finding it hard to fight the feeling."
"My heart just burst like a glass balloon."
"I was the wrong damn girl in the wrong damn room."
"They call him Hermit the Frog."
"Did you find your bitch in me?"
"Oh, you're abominable socially."
"You're just a little bit too much like me."
"She used to be so kind."
"Well, baby, I give you your dirty mind."
"I wanna tell you a secret."
"You can take your double-standard love and keep it."
"I can't help the devil likes to make my heart a double bed."
"I can't help he sometimes likes to come and rest his little head."
OH NO!
"Don't do love, don't do friends."
"I'm only after success."
"Don't need a relationship."
"I'll never soften my grip."
"Don't want cash, don't want card."
"Don't need money, don't need fame."
"I just want to make a change."
"I just wanna change."
"I know exactly what I want and who I want to be."
"I know exactly why I walk and talk like a machine."
"I'm now becoming my own self-fulfilled prophecy."
"One track mind, one track heart."
"If I fail, I'll fall apart."
"I feel like I'm the worst so I always act like I'm the best."
"If you are not very careful, your possessions will possess you."
"TV taught me how to feel."
"Real life has no appeal."
"I'm gonna live, I'm gonna fly."
"I'm gonna fail, I'm gonna die."
ROOTLESS
"I've got nowhere to go."
"I'm a stray cat on the roam."
"For something, somebody that reminded them of me."
"Running with my roots pulled up."
"Caught me cold so they could cut what there was left of love."
"I'm rootless."
"Tied to no community."
"No home-sweet and no sweet home."
NUMB
"I can't breathe, and I can't smile."
"This better be worth my while."
"I feel numb most of the time."
"Lower I get, the higher I'll climb."
"I got dark only to shine."
"Oh, it's a reasonable sacrifice."
"Forego families, forego friends."
"It's how it started, how it ends."
"I can't open up and cry 'cause I've been silent all my life."
"I'm in Hell."
"I need a friend, but I can't yell."
"I'm no good."
"All I care about is being number one."
"I'll light up the sky."
"Stars that burn the brightest fall so fast and pass you by."
GUILTY
"I was dreaming something dark."
"I left it dead."
"I'm a guilty one."
"They know what I have done."
"I'm a troubled one."
"I won't be forgiven."
"I know what I have done."
"I'm never forgiven."
"I was just a kid that you could not forgive because it's harder."
"I was just a kid and all I really wanted was my father."
"I left it bruised and black and lame."
"Spent years singing to forget."
"It all becomes clear."
"I've been sorry all these years."
SEVENTEEN
"Used to be a major scale, but the melody went stale."
"You're a rich little boy who's had to work for his toys."
"You've got all sensibilities of an upper class guy."
"No, I'm not your little slave."
"No, I don't twist and turn that way."
"You're always asking what is up with me."
"Could never tell you what happened the day I turned seventeen."
"The rise of a king and the fall of a queen."
"You were embarrassed of me?"
"Bet you wish I couldn't speak."
"You want a hassle-free life?"
"Go get your upper class wife."
"She's got all the personality of a lemon that has been truly sucked dry."
"You teach me how to behave."
"I felt you question the way I was brought up as a baby."
"You don't know fuck about my family."
"Never fell down like a princess."
"I used to kid myself in this dress that it was just how things were meant to be."
THE FAMILY JEWELS
"I can't break the cycle."
"Falling down like dominoes, hit by family jewels."
"Pass it down from kid to kid, the chain will never end."
"Will I see the end?"
"Don't you find it strange?"
"Only thing we share is one last name."
"Did I beat you at your own game?"
"Typical of me to put us all to shame."
"Welcome to the family jewels."
"Coal to diamond, sold to fools."
"Simmerin' sapphire can't keep his cool."
"I can't keep my cool."
"Family said that I decided to live a loveless life."
"Is it my fault we stay divided?"
"I got too much pride."
"You think I'm unfit?"
"Little did you know that I was cut for it."
"No glass slipper will ever fit 'cause I could never see a diamond in it."
"When we're in the dark, it echoes in your heart."
"When you're far away, it beckons me to stay."
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