𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓 𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓 ; lyrical writing prompts, hozier, part two!
‘i have never known peace’
‘our heartbeats becoming slow’
‘we lay here for years or for hours’
‘so long we become the flowers’
‘i'd be home with you’
‘your hand in my hand’
007. sedated
‘any way to distract and sedate’
‘you and i, nursing on a poison that never stung’
‘gree and young and we can feel none of it’
‘something isn't right, babe’
‘i keep scratching, but somehow i can't get in’
‘lord we should quit, but we love it too much’
‘darlin', don't you, stand there watching’
‘won't you come and save me from it?’
008. work song
‘is that the kinda way to face the burning heat?’
‘i’m so full of love i could barely eat’
‘there's nothing sweeter than my baby’
‘she give me toothaches just from kissin' me’
‘no grave can hold my body down, i'll crawl home to her’
‘but I swear i thought i dreamed her’
‘if the lord don't forgive me, i'd still have my baby, and my babe would have me’
009. like real people do
‘honey, just put your sweet lips on my lips’
‘we should just kiss, like real people do’
‘i knew that look, dear’
‘in some sad way, i already know’
010. it will come back
‘you know better, babe’
‘honey, make this easy’
‘you know better, babe than to smile at me, smile at me like that’
‘you know better, babe than to hold me just, hold me just like that’
'i'm something else when i see you’
'you don't understand’
‘you should never know, how easy you are to need’
'through the cold, i'll find my way back to you’
‘that's a kindness you can't afford’
‘i warn you’
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𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓 𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓 ; lyrical writing prompts, hozier, part one!
001. take me to church
‘they should've worshipped her sooner’
‘every sunday's getting more bleak’
‘the only heaven i'll be sent to, is when i'm alone with you’
‘but i love it’
‘i'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies’
‘I'll tell you my sins, and you can sharpen your knife’
‘offer me that deathless death’
‘oh good god, let me give you my life’
‘my lover's the sunlight’
‘that's a fine looking high horse’
‘there is no sweeter innocence, than our gentle sin’
002. jackie and wilson
‘so tired trying to see from behind the red in my eyes’
‘no better version of me i could pretend to be tonight’
‘laughing away through my feeble disguise’
‘no other version of me i would rather be tonight’
‘lord, she found me just in time’
‘i need to be youthfully felt 'cause, god, i never felt young’
‘she's gonna save me’
‘soothe me daily’
‘she wouldn't care’
‘every version of me dead and buried in the yard outside’
‘we'd sit back and watch the world go by’
‘happy to lie back watch it burn and rust’
‘we tried the world, good god, it wasn't for us’
003. someone new
‘don't take this the wrong way’
‘you knew who I was, with every step that i ran to you’
‘would things be easier if there was a right way?’
‘honey there is no right way’
‘somehow escape the burning weight, the art of scraping through’
‘the dark caress of someone else’
‘i guess any thrill will do’
‘and my heart's already sinned’
‘how pure, how sweet a love, aretha, that you would pray for him?’
004. to be alone
‘all i've ever done is hide’
‘kill the lights and kiss my eyes’
‘i feel like a person for a moment of my life’
‘but you don't know what hell you put me through’
‘to feel your weight in arms i'd never use’
‘it feels good, girl, it feels good’
‘oh, to be alone with you’
‘there are questions i can't ask’
‘now at last the worst is over’
‘honey, we should run away, oh, someday’
‘but i don't know what else that i would do, than try to kiss the skin that crawls from you’
005. from eden
‘there's something tragic about you’
‘something so magic about you’
‘there's something lonesome about you’
‘something so wholesome about you’
‘get closer to me’
‘who cares?’
‘no time for me’
‘i slithered here from eden, just to sit outside your door’
‘where to begin?
‘there's something broken about this’
‘but I might be hoping about this’
‘oh, what a sin’
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i will literally just be vibing doing nothing. at work. trying to sleep or whatever and anyway my brain will just be like "DO YOU KNOW I COULD BREAK BENEATH THE WEIGHT, OF THE GOODNESS, LOVE, I STILL CARRY FOR YOU? THAT I'D WALK SO FAR JUST TO TAKE, THE INJURY OF FINALLY KNOWING YOU?"
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