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the new rep outfit holy shit

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Sabrina Carpenter Short n Sweet Standard Edition Sentence Starters

Tracks 1-4:

"Oh I leave quite an impression, 5 feet to be exact."

"You're wondering why half his/her/their clothes went missing, my body's where they're at."

"If you want forever, and I bet you do; just know you'll taste me too."

"I know I've been known to share."

"I know I have good judgement, I know I have good taste."

"Whatever devil's inside you, don't let him/her/them out tonight."

"Heartbreak is one thing, my ego's another; I beg you don't embarrass me motherfucker."

"If you wanna go be stupid, don't do it in front of me."

"When I love you I'm sweet like an angel."

"Don't mistake my nice for naïve."

"You should stay in my good graces."

"Break my heart and I swear I'm moving on."

"I know you're not the sharpest tool in the shed."

"If that was casual then I'm an idiot."

"All the silence is just your strategy."

"We never talk about how you found God at your ex's house."

Tracks 5-8

"Now his/her/their name comes up once, then it comes up twice."

"Now he's/she's/they're in the same damn city on the same damn night."

"And you've lost all your common sense, what a coincidence."

"What a surprise, your phone just died."

"Your friend hit me up so we could connect."

"But I bet we'd have really good bed chem."

"Where art thou? Why not uponeth me?"

"See it in my mind, let's fulfil the prophecy."

"Say you can't sleep, baby I know."

"Switch it up like Nintendo."

"My give-a-fucks are on vacation."

"My honeybee, come and get this pollen."

"You're so dumb and poetic."

"It's just what I fall for, I like the aesthetic."

"Gold star for highbrow manipulation."

"Fuck with my head like it's some kind of fetish."

Tracks 9-12

"I am not dramatic."

"Since the good ones are deceased or taken, I'll just keep on moanin' and bitchin'."

"Since the good ones call their exes wasted."

"And since the lord forgot my gay awakening."

"Don't have to tell your hot ass a thing."

"You make me wanna make you fall in love."

"Wanna try out my fuzzy pink handcuffs?"

"Give me more than just some butterflies."

"I've never seen an ugly truth that I can't bend."

"Yeah I can make a shitshow look a whole lot like forever and ever."

"You don't have to lift a finger."

"We love to read the cold hard facts and swear they're incorrect."

"Don't smile because it happened baby, cry because it's over."

"I think I need a shower, my friends are taking shots."

"You think it's happy hour, for me it's not."

"Pour my feelings in the microphone."

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Death by a thousand cuts and getaway car?! Taylor I can't, I'm dead again

WHAT THE FUCK FLORENCE IS ON STAGE?! I'M DEAD

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WHAT THE FUCK FLORENCE IS ON STAGE?! I'M DEAD

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update: got the folklore dress right and the rep outfit lmao, and I did not get the surprise songs right but I'm not upset about these surprise songs since the archer is one of my favorite songs on lover lmao

ooh I've gotten the outfits right for lover era tonight, now to wait and see how many more I get right tonight, I get the feeling I'll probably get the surprise songs wrong though lmao.

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ooh I've gotten the outfits right for lover era tonight, now to wait and see how many more I get right tonight, I get the feeling I'll probably get the surprise songs wrong though lmao.

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The new midnights bodysuit holy shit

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Chappell Roan The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess Sentence Starters

Tracks 1-5

"Let's get coffee, let's meet up."

“I’m so sick of online love.”

“Got what you wanted, so stop feeling sorry.”

"Dude, can you play a song with a fucking beat?"

“I just want you to make a move.”

"Fell in love with the thought of you."

"Baby, why don't you come over?"

“I heard you like magic.”

"'Cause after midnight, I'm feeling kinda freaky."

“I love a little drama.”

“Everything good happens after midnight.”

"That's my type of fun, that's my kind of party."

"It's where I met your family, some words were exchanged."

“I know that’s a lie.”

“I’d rather feel something, than nothing at all.”

"We've done this before, and I don't need it anymore."

"My friends call me a loser."

“I have anger issues.”

“Is it casual now?”

"I know what you tell your friends."

Tracks 6-10

“Never waste a Friday night on a first date.”

"But there I was, in my heels with my hair straight."

"He/she/they didn't ask a single question."

“Not overdramatic, I know what I want.”

“I don’t want the world but I’ll take this city.”

"Baby do you like this beat? I made it so you'd dance with me."

“I try not to care but it hurts my feelings.”

"Order up, I'm hot to go."

"We broke up on a Tuesday."

“You’re running your mouth.”

“People say I’m jealous.”

"Six months since April and I'm doing better, no need to be hateful in your fake Gucci sweater."

"It's ritualistic, counting lipstick stains where you should be."

“I need you around.”

"Do you picture me, like I picture you?"

“Do you feel the same? I'm too scared to say.”

"I guess we could pretend, we didn't cross a line."

“But ever since that day, everything has changed.”

“And love is a kaleidoscope, how it works we'll never know."

"And it'll just take time, to go back being friends."

Tracks 11-14 + Good Luck Babe

“It’s gonna cause a scene.”

"God, what have you done?"

"I'm gonna keep on dancing at the Pink Pony Club."

"You're always on my mind."

"New crush, high school love again."

"Don't touch, I'll never cross the line."

“And we both know, we’re getting drunk tonight.”

“Could go to hell, but we’ll probably be fine.”

"I stretched myself across four states."

"I trade amber clay roads for the sea foam and the endless sun rays."

“If it hasn’t happened yet, then maybe you should go.”

“I let you down.”

"Learned it on the internet, wheels turning in my head."

“Sometimes I scare myself.”

"So shame on me and shame on you, I fantasize what we would do."

“And oh my god, you are heaven sent.”

"You can say that we are nothing, but you know the truth."

"I don't wanna call it off, but you don't wanna call it love."

"You can say it's just the way you are, make a new excuse, another stupid reason."

"And when you think about me, all of those years ago; you're standing face to face with 'I told you so'."

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Taylor Swift 1989 Taylor's Version Sentence Starters

Tracks 1-4

"Everybody here wanted something more."

"It's a new soundtrack, I could dance to this beat forevermore."

"The lights are so bright, but they never blind me."

"Everybody here was someone else before."

"And you can want who you want, boys and boys and girls and girls."

"But you know I wouldn't change anything."

"I could show you incredible things."

"Oh my god, look at that face."

"You look like my next mistake."

"You can tell me when it's over."

"We're young and we're reckless, we'll take this way too far."

"I get drunk on jealousy, but you'll come back each time you leave."

"Long drive, could end in burning flames or paradise."

"It's been a while since I have even heard from you."

"I watch us go round and round each time."

"We never go out of style."

"I've been there too a few times."

"Take me home."

"Looking at it now, it all seemed so simple."

"We were lying on your couch, I remember."

"Are we out of the woods yet?"

"When you started crying, baby I did too."

"When the sun came up, I was looking at you."

"I'm setting you free."

Tracks 5-8

"People like me, wanna believe you; when you say you've changed."

"The more I think about it now, the less I know."

"All you had to do was stay."

"I've been picking up the pieces, of the mess you made."

"People like me are gone forever, when you say goodbye."

"You were all I wanted, but not like this."

"I stay out too late."

"That's what people say."

"I go on too many dates, but I can't make 'em stay."

"It's gonna be alright."

"I never miss a beat."

"I'm dancing on my own."

"You say it's in the past, and drive straight ahead."

"You're thinking that I hate you now, cause you still don't know what I never said."

"I wish you knew that, I'll never forget you as long as I live."

"we're a crooked love, in a straight line down."

"You always knew how to push my buttons."

"You give me everything and nothing."

"So take a look what you've done."

"Did you have to do this?"

"I was thinking that you could be trusted."

"Oh, it's so sad to think about the good times."

"Band aids don't fix bullet holes."

"If you live like that, you live with ghosts."

Tracks 9-12

"Heaven can't help me now."

"Nothing lasts forever."

"But this is gonna take me down."

"Say you'll remember me."

"Say you'll see me again, even if it's just in your wildest dreams."

"You see me in hindsight, tangled up with you all night; burning it down."

"Stand there like a ghost, shaking from the rain."

"It's been a long six months."

"I want you for worse or for better."

"Broke your heart, I'll put it back together."

"Remind me how it used to be."

"Pictures in frames of kisses on cheeks."

"Clear blue water, high tide came and brought you in."

"I never dreamed of this."

"This love came back to me."

"In losing grip on sinking ships, you showed up just in time."

"I watched you leave."

"When you're young, you just run; but you come back to what you need."

"I can hear them whisper as we pass by, it's a bad sign."

"Something happens, when everybody finds out."

"Love's a fragile little flame it can burn out."

"They are the hunters, we are the foxes; and we run."

"I know places we can't be found."

"I know for you, it's always me."

Tracks 13-17

"The drought was the very worst."

"It was months and months of back and forth."

"Hung my head as I lost the war, and the sky turned black like a perfect storm."

"By morning, gone was any trace of you; I think I am finally clean."

"I screamed so loud, but no-one heard a thing."

"Ten months older, I won't give in, now that I'm clean I'm never gonna risk it."

"You held on tight to me, cause nothing's as it seems."

"Didn't they tell us, don't rush into things?"

"We pretended it could last forever."

"Didn't you calm my fears, with a Cheshire cat smile?"

"I reached for you but you were gone."

"You search the world for someone else, to make you feel like what we had."

"One look, dark room; meant just for you."

"Time moved too fast, you play it back."

"No proof, not much but you saw enough."

"You can hear it in the silence."

"You're my best friend."

"And you understand now why they lost their minds, and fought the wars."

"We're all bored, we're all so tired of everything."

"I could build a castle, out of all the bricks they threw at me."

"Heartbreak is the national anthem, we sing it proudly."

"The rumours are terrible and cruel, but honey most of them are true."

"Please take my hand, please take me dancing."

"Please leave me stranded, it's so romantic.

"What if, all I need is you?"

"Got lovestruck went straight to my head."

"Adorned with smoke on my clothes, lovelorn and nobody knows."

"I'll pay the price you won't."

"Half asleep, taking your time in the tangerine neon light."

"You're not saying you're in love with me, but you're going to."

Tracks 18-21 + Sweeter Than Fiction

"Oh no, oh no I'm unarmed."

"The waiting is a sadness, fading into madness."

"I would stay forever if you, say don't go."

"Why'd you whisper in the dark, just to leave me in the night?"

"I'm standing on the sidewalk, alone; I wait for you to drive by."

"I said I love you, you say nothing back."

"You part the crowd like the sea don't even get me started."

"Did you get anxious though, on the way home?"

"I guess I'll never ever know, now that we don't talk."

"I miss the old ways, you didn't have to change."

"I cannot be your friend, so I pay the price for what I lost."

"Truth is I can't pretend it's platonic, it's just ended."

"Guess this is how it has to be, now that we don't talk."

"You had people who called you on unmarked numbers, in my peripheral vision."

"I didn't come here to make friends."

"You kiss me in a way that's gonna screw me up forever."

"You'd be more than a chapter in my old diaries, with the pages ripped out."

"I am standing in a 1950's gymnasium, and I can still see it now."

"I broke my own heart, cause you were too polite to do it."

"I slept all alone, you still wouldn't go."

"You dream of my mouth before it called you a lying traitor."

"Was it over then, and is it over now?"

"When you lost control, red blood; white snow."

"Did you think I didn't see you? There were flashing lights."

""At least I had the dignity to keep my nights out of sight."

"Seen you lost in a crowd, seen your colors fade."

"Wish I could make it better, someday you won't remember, the pain you'd thought would last forever and ever."

"I will say, I knew it all along."

This life is sweeter than fiction."

"And in this perfect weather, it's like we don't remember, the rain we thought would last forever and ever."

"I'll be one of the many saying, you made us proud."

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Taylor Swift Evermore Sentence Starters

Tracks 1-4

"I'm like the water when your ship rolled in that night."

"Lost in your currant like a priceless wine."

"Wherever you stray, I follow."

"Life was a willow and it bent right to your wind."

"They count me out, time and time again."

"But I come back stronger than a nineties trend."

"Your heart was glass, I dropped it."

"I couldn't give a reason."

"Your midas touch on the chevy door, November flush and your flannel cure."

"And soon they'll have the nerve to deck the halls that we once walked through."

"One for the money, two for the show, I never was ready so I watch you go."

"You'll find the real thing instead she'll/he'll/they'll patch up the tapestry that I shred."

"Eyes like sinking ships on waters, so inviting I almost jump in."

"I don't like that falling feels like flying 'til the bone crush."

"Everybody wants you, but I don't like a gold rush."

"What must it be like to grow up that beautiful? With your hair falling into place like dominoes."

"My mind turns your life into folklore, I can't dare to dream about you anymore."

"And the coastal town we never found, will never see a love as pure as it."

"There's an ache in you put there by the ache in me."

"We could call it even, you could call me babe for the weekend."

"I'm staying at my parents house, and the road not taken looks real good now."

"And it always leads to you and my hometown."

"Sleep in half the day, just for old's time sake."

"And the heart I know I'm breaking is my own, to leave the warmest bed I've ever known."

Tracks 5-8

"I sit and watch you reading with your head low."

"You're so much older and wiser."

"If it's all in my head tell me now, tell me I've got it wrong somehow."

"I know my love should be celebrated, but you tolerate it."

"I made you my temple, my mural, my sky, now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life."

"Took this dagger in me and removed it, gain the weight of you, then lose it; believe me I could do it."

"We meet up every Tuesday night for dinner and a glass of wine."

"That ain't my merlot on his/her/their mouth, that ain't my jewelry on our joint account."

"I think he/she/they did it but I just can't prove it."

"no body no crime, but I ain't letting up until the day I die."

"Good thing my daddy made me get a boating license when I was fifteen."

"And I've cleaned enough houses to know how to cover up a scene."

"All the years I've given, is just shit we're dividing up."

"Showed you all of my hiding spots, I was dancing when the music stopped."

"Beyond the terror in the nightfall, haunted by the look in my eyes."

"When did all our lessons start to look like weapons pointed at my deepest hurt?"

"There is a glorious sunrise, dappled with the flickers of light; from the dress I wore at midnight, leave it all behind."

"I can't make it go away by making you a villain, I guess it's the price I pay for seven years in heaven."

"You got shiny friends since you left town, a tiny screen's the only place I see you now."

"This place is the same as it ever was."

"From you, I'd buy anything."

"It's never too late to come back to my side."

"You know, you'll always know me."

"Are you still the same soul I met under the bleachers?"

Tracks 9-12

"If I can't relate to you anymore, then who am I related to?"

"Did I close my fist around something delicate? Did I shatter you?"

"Sorry for not making you my centerfold."

"What's a lifetime of achievement? If I pushed you to the edge, but you were too polite to leave me."

"'Cause we were like the mall before the Internet, it was the one place to be."

"And when I got into the accident, the sight that flashed before me was your face."

"I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bones, in a faith forgotten land.

"And the old widow goes to the stone every day."

"Oh goddamn, my pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand."

"Oh I can't, stop you putting roots in my dream land."

"My house of stone, your ivy grows; now I'm covered in you."

"Crescent moon, coast is clear; spring breaks loose, but so does fear."

"How's one to know? I'd live and die for moments that we stole, on begged and borrowed time."

"It's a goddamn blaze in the dark, and you started it."

"Dancing is a dangerous game."

"I'm never gonna love again."

"I've got some tricks up my sleeve."

"And the skeletons in both our closets, plotted hard to fuck this up."

"Now you hang from my lips, like the Gardens of Babylon."

"With your boots beneath my bed, forever is the sweetest con."

"Fatefully, I tried to pick my battles; 'til the battle picked me."

"And you passed right by, I was in the alley surrounded on all sides."

"If the shoe fits, walk in it 'til your high heels break."

"And I fell from the pedestal, right down the rabbit hole."

"Long story short, it was a bad time."

"Pushed from the precipice, clung to the nearest lips."

"No more keeping score, now I just keep you warm."

"Long story short it was a bad time, long story short I survived."

Tracks 13-15 + bonus tracks

"Never be so kind, you forget to be clever."

"The autumn chill that wakes me up, you loved the amber skies so much."

"It's been a long time, and seeing the shape of your name; still spells out pain."

"It wasn't right, the way it all went down; looks like you know that now."

"I know that it's over, I don't need your closure."

"Don't treat me like some situation that needs to be handled."

"I know I'm just a wrinkle in your new life."

"Guilty, reaching out across the sea, that you put between you and me."

"Grey November, I've been down since July."

"I replay my footsteps on each stepping stone, trying to find the one where I went wrong."

"Writing letters, addressed to the fire."

"And I couldn't be sure, I had a feeling so peculiar; that this pain would be for evermore."

"Oh can we just get a pause, to be certain we'll be tall again."

"And when I was shipwrecked, I thought of you."

"Trends change, rumors fly through new skies; but I'm right where you left me."

"Help, I'm still at the restaurant, still sitting in a corner I haunt."

"I swear you could hear a hairpin drop, right when I felt the moment stop."

"Break-ups happen every day, you don't have to lose it."

"If our love died young, I can't bear witness."

"And it's been so long, but if you ever think you got it wrong."

"When the dinner is cold and the chatter gets old, you ask for the tab."

"That old familiar body ache, the snaps from the same little breaks in your soul; you know when it's time to go."

"Sometimes, giving up is the strong thing."

"Fifteen years, fifteen million tears; begging 'til my knees bled."

"I gave it my all, he/she/they gave me nothing at all; then wondered why I left."

"he's/she's/they've got my past frozen behind glass, but I've got me."

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Taylor Swift Folklore Sentence Starters

Tracks 1-4

"I'm doing good I'm on some new shit, been saying yes instead of no."

"I thought I saw you at the bus stop, I didn't though."

"If you wanted me, you really should have showed."

"But we were something, don't you think so?"

"If my wishes came true, it would have been you."

"If one thing had been different, would everything be different today?"

"When you are young, they assume you know nothing."

"You put me on and said I was your favorite."

"A friend to all, is a friend to none."

"To kiss in cars and downtown bars, was all we needed."

"You drew stars around my scars, but now I'm bleeding."

"I knew you, leaving like a father, running like water."

"How did a middle-class divorcée do it?"

"The wedding was charming, if a little gauche, there's only so far new money goes."

"Their parties were tasteful, if a little loud."

"There goes the last great American dynasty."

"Who knows if she/he/they never showed up, what could have been?"

"I had a marvellous time, ruining everything."

"And it took you five whole minutes, to pack us up and leave me with it, holding all this love out here in the hall."

"I think I've seen this film before, and I didn't like the ending."

"You were my crown, now I'm exile seeing you out."

"There is no amount of crying I can do for you."

"You didn't even hear me out, you never gave a warning sign."

"I gave so many signs."

Tracks 5-8

"If I'm on fire, you'll be made of ashes too."

"I swear I loved you, 'til my dying day."

"I didn't have it in myself to go with grace, cause when I'd fight you used to tell me I was brave."

"And if I'm dead to you why are you at the wake? Cursing my name, wishing I stayed, look at how my tears ricochet."

"I can go anywhere I want, just not home."

"And I still talk to you, when I'm screaming at the sky."

"I'll show you every version of yourself tonight."

"And when I break it's in a million pieces."

"Hush, I know they said the end is near."

"I can change everything about me to fit in."

"And they called off the circus, burned the disco down."

"I've never been a natural, all I do is try."

"Are there still beautiful things?"

"Cross your heart, won't tell no other."

"Love you to the moon and to Saturn."

"Passed down like folk songs, the love lasts so long."

"I've been meaning to tell you, I think your house is haunted."

"Then you won't have to cry, or hide in the closet."

"Whispers, of "are you sure?" Never have I ever before."

"I can see us lost in the memory, August slipped away into a moment in time, cause it was never mine."

"Your back beneath the sun, wishing I could write my name on it."

"Back when we were still changing for the better, wanting was enough, for me it was enough."

"To live for the hope of it all, cancelled plans just in case you called."

"Meet me behind the mall."

Tracks 9-12

"I've been having a hard time adjusting, I had the shiniest wheels now they're rusting."

"I have a lot of regrets about that."

"I'm here in your doorway."

"I just wanted you to know, that this is me trying."

"My words shoot to kill when I'm mad."

"You're a flashback in a film reel, on the one screen in my town."

"What started in beautiful rooms, ends with meetings in parking lots."

"And that's the thing about illicit affairs, and clandestine meetings and longing stares."

"Take the words for what they are, a dwindling mercurial high."

"Don't call me kid, don't call me baby, look at this godforsaken mess that you made me."

"You showed me colors you know I can't see with anyone else."

"And you know damn well, for you I would ruin myself, a million little times."

"I used to think I'd meet somebody there."

"Time, curious time, gave me no compasses, gave me no signs."

"Isn't it just so pretty to think, all along there was some invisible string, tying you to me?"

"Something wrapped all of my past mistakes in barbed wire."

"One single thread of gold tied me to you."

"Hell was the journey but it brought me heaven."

"They strike to kill, and you know I will."

"What do you sing on your drive home? Do you see my face in the neighbours lawn?"

"Fuck you, forever."

"Every time you call me crazy, I get more crazy what about that?"

"It's obvious that wanting me dead, has really brought you two together."

"The master of spin has a couple side flings."

Tracks 13-16 + The Lakes

"Some things you just can't speak about."

"Only twenty minutes to sleep, but you dream of some epiphany."

"I think it's cause of me."

"This time it was true."

"The worst thing that I ever did, was what I did to you."

"Would you tell me to go fuck myself? Or lead me to the garden."

"The only thing I wanna do, is make it up to you."

"So I showed up at your party."

"Our coming-of-age has come and gone."

"And it's just around the corner, darling; cause it lives in me."

"No I could never give you peace."

"All these people think love's for show, but I would die for you in secret."

"You paint dreamscapes on the wall, I talk shit with my friends, it's like I'm wasting your honor."

"Give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other."

"I'd give you my sunshine, give you my best."

"But the rain is always gonna come if you're standing with me."

"My twisted knife, my sleepless night."

"My winless fight, this has frozen my ground."

"Stood on the cliffside screaming, give me a reason."

"Your faithless love's the only hoax I believe in."

"Don't want no other shade of blue but you."

"No other sadness in the world would do."

"You knew it still hurts underneath my scars, from when they pulled me apart."

"Darling this was just as hard."

"I'm not cut out for all these cynical clones."

"Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die, I don't belong, and my beloved, neither do you."

"I'm setting off, but not without my muse."

"I've come too far to watch some namedropping sleaze, tell me what are my words worth."

"I want to watch wisteria grow right over my bare feet."

"While I bathe in cliffside pools, with my calamitous love and insurmountable grief."

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Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department + The Anthology Sentence Starters

Tracks 1-4

"You're the reason."

"No-one here's to blame."

"The effects were temporary."

"I love you, it's ruining my life."

"I touched you for only a fortnight."

"Buy the car you want."

"You left your typewriter at my apartment."

"Who uses typewriters anyway?"

"You're in self-sabotage mode."

"Who's gonna hold you like me?"

"Sometimes, I wonder if you're gonna screw this up with me."

"Everyone we know understands why it's meant to be."

"Oh, here we go again."

"Rivulets descend my plastic smile."

"I should've known it was a matter of time."

"I know I'm just repeating myself."

"I felt more when we played pretend."

"Told me I'm better off, but I'm not."

"For a moment I knew cosmic love."

"Everything comes out teenage petulance."

"Fuck it if I can't have him/her/them."

"Staring at the sky, come back and pick me up."

"Did you take all my old clothes? Just to leave me here naked and alone."

"Cause fuck it I was in love, so fuck you if I can't have us."

Tracks 5-8

"Oh, the tragedy."

"I left all I knew, you left me at the house by the heath."

"I died on the altar waiting for the proof."

"I'm just getting color back into my face."

"I'm just mad as hell cause I loved this place."

"A moment of warm sun, but I'm not the one."

"I forget if this was ever fun."

"I just learned these people only raise you, to cage you."

"No, I'm not coming to my senses."

"Growing up precocious sometimes means, not growing up at all."

"I'd rather burn my whole life down, than listen to one more second of all this bitching and moaning."

"You ain't gotta pray for me."

"I'm running back home to you."

"Fresh out the slammer, I know who my first call will be to."

"Handcuffed to the spell I was under."

"All those nights you kept me going."

"Swirled you into all of my poems."

"But it's gonna be alright, I did my time."

"You can beat the heat, if you beat the charges too."

"They said I was a cheat, I guess it must be true."

"Your home's really only a town, you're just a guest in."

"I got drunk and I dared it to wash me away."

"Well, me and my ghosts, we had a hell of a time."

"Tell me I'm despicable, say it's unforgivable."

Tracks 9-12

"My boredom's bone deep, this cage was once just fine."

"Am I allowed to cry?"

"I dream of cracking locks, throwing my life to the wolves or the ocean rocks."

"How I long for our trysts."

"What if I roll the stone away? They're gonna crucify me anyway."

"I choose you and me, religiously."

"You don't get to tell me about sad."

"If you wanted me dead, you should have just said."

"So I leap from the gallows, and I levitate down your street."

"At all costs keep your good name."

"Is it a wonder I broke, let's hear one more joke."

"We could all just laugh, until I cry."

"Lord save her/him/them."

"But your good lord doesn't need to lift a finger."

"I can fix him/her/them, no really I can."

"And I could see it from a mile away."

"Come close, I'll show you heaven."

"Maybe I can't."

"Who's gonna stop us from waltzing back into rekindled flames?"

"We were just kids babe."

"I thought I was better safe than starry-eyed."

"I wish I could un-recall, how we almost had it all."

"Our field of dreams, engulfed in fire."

"You're the loss of my life."

Tracks 13-16

"I can show you lies."

"Cause I'm a real tough kid, I can handle my shit."

"You gotta fake it 'til you make it."

"All the pieces of me shattered as the crowd was chanting more."

"I can pass this test."

"Try and come for my job."

"Was any of it true? Gazing at me starry-eyed."

"Who the fuck was that guy?"

"Were you sent by someone, who wanted me dead?"

"And you'll confess why you did it, and I'll say good riddance."

"I would've died for your sins, instead I just died inside."

"You are what you did."

"The hospital was a drag, worst sleep I ever had."

"I haven't come around in so long."

"Call the amateurs and cut 'em from the team."

"Ditch the clowns, get the crown."

"Who are we to fight the alchemy?"

"That child's play back in school, is forgiven under my rule."

"I think I might die if it happened."

"This town is fake, but you're the real thing."

"Take the glory, give everything."

"Beauty is a beast that roars, down on all fours; demanding more."

"It's hell on earth to be heavenly."

"The future's bright, dazzling."

Tracks 17-21

"I just don't understand."

"Old habits die screaming."

"I may never open up the way I did for you."

"Do you hate me?"

"Now I want to sell my house and set fire to all my clothes, and hire a priest to come and exorcise my demons."

"Cause tail between your legs, you're leaving."

"You knew the price going in."

"I can tell when somebody still wants me, come clean."

"Once you fix your face I'm going in."

"I'm an Aston Martin, that you steered straight into the ditch."

"Push the reset button, we're becoming something new."

"Told my friends I hate you, but I love you just the same."

"A rose by any other name is a scandal."

"Cross your thoughtless heart, only liquor anoints you."

"Devils that you know, raise worse hell than a stranger."

"You're in terrible danger."

"I tried to warn you about them."

"I'm the albatross, I swept in at the rescue."

"I just watched it happen."

"You saw my bones out with somebody new."

"I loved you the way that you were."

"You turned me into an idea of sorts."

"I changed into goddesses, villains and fools, changed plans and lovers and outfits and rules."

"Could it be enough to just float in your orbit."

"Come one come all, it's happening again."

"The empathetic hunger descends."

"We'll tell no-one, except all of our friends."

"How did it end?"

"Say it once again with feeling."

"My beloved ghost and me sitting in a tree d-y-i-n-g."

Tracks 22-26

"I wanna find you in a crowd just to hide from you."

"Your friends are around, so be quiet."

"No-one's ever had me, not like you."

"You know how to ball, I know Aristotle."

"You already know babe."

"Do that impression you did of your dad again."

"If comfort is a construct, I don't believe in good luck."

"I read about it in a book when I was a precocious child."

"I'm there most of the year cause I hate it here."

"Nostalgia is a mind trick."

"I'm bitter, but I swear I'm fine.

"This place made me feel worthless."

"And it was always the same searing pain, but I dreamed that one day, I could say."

"All that time you were throwing punches, I was building something."

"And it wasn't a fair fight, or a clean kill."

"I pushed each boulder up the hill, your words are still just ringing in my head."

"I built a legacy that you can't undo."

"I don't think you've changed much."

"I had died the tiniest death."

"North bound I got carried away, as you boarded your train."

"They have their friends over to drink nice wine."

"Does it feel alright to not know me?"

"I look in people's windows, like I'm some deranged weirdo."

"I attend Christmas parties from outside."

"Oh, was it punishment?"

"Please, I've been on my knees, change the prophecy."

"Let it once be me."

"It was sinking in."

"But I howl like a wolf, at the moon."

"But even statues crumble, if they're made to wait."

Tracks 27-31

"I was in my new house, placing daydreams."

"When the first stone's thrown, there's screaming."

"When the truth comes out, it's quiet."

"So they filled my cell with snakes I regret to say, do you believe me now?"

"Blood's thick, but nothing like a payroll."

"Bet they never spared a prayer for my soul."

"Is it something I did?"

"I thought it was just goodbye for now."

"You said you were gonna grow up, then you were gonna come find me."

"I hoped you'd return."

"Cause love's never lost, once perspective is earned."

"And the shelf life of those fantasies has expired, lost to the lost boys chapter of your life."

"A curious child, ever reviled."

"Oh, we must stop meeting like this."

"But it always ends up with a town car speeding, out the drive one evening."

"It felt like breathing."

"What a charming Saturday."

"This is fate."

"Long may you reign."

"You have no idea."

"Way to go tiger."

"You have no room in your dreams for regrets."

"The time will arrive for the cruel and the mean."

"You'll learn to bounce back, just like your trampoline."

"I'm not a donor, but I'd give you my heart if you needed it."

"You're a professional."

"But soon it was over."

"The professor said to write what you know."

"Now and then I re-read the manuscript."

"But the story isn't mine anymore."

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Taylor Swift Midnights Sentence Starters

Tracks 1-4

"You don't really read into my melancholia."

"I've been under scrutiny, you handle it beautifully."

"I'm damned if I do give a damn what people say."

"They're bringing up my history, but you weren't even listening."

"Talk your talk and go viral, I just need this love spiral."

"Get it off your chest, get it off my desk."

"We lost track of time again."

"How'd we end up on the floor anyway?"

"I see you every day now."

"The lips I used to call home, so scarlet it was maroon."

"Ain't that the way, shit always ends?"

"I wake with your memory over me, that's a real fucking legacy to leave."

"All of the people, I've ghosted stand there in the room."

"I end up in crisis, tale as old as time."

"I wake up screaming from dreaming."

"I'll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror."

"One day I'll watch as you're leaving, and life will lose all of it's meaning."

"She's/he's/they're laughing up at us from hell."

"I saw flecks of what could've been lights, but it might just have been you passing by unbeknownst to me."

"Life is emotionally abusive."

"My flight was awful, thanks for asking."

"You wanting me tonight feels impossible."

"It's fine to fake it 'til you make it."

"I can't speak, afraid to jinx it."

Tracks 5-8"

"I play it cool with the best of them."

"It's ok we're the best of friends."

"You're on your own kid, you always have been."

"I gave my blood, sweat and tears for this."

"Everything you lose is a step you take."

"You've got no reason to be afraid."

"My town was a wasteland."

"But for some it was paradise."

"he/she/they wanted it comfortable, I wanted that pain."

"I was making my own name, chasing that fame."

"All of me changed like midnight rain."

"I guess sometimes we all get some kind of haunted."

"Big city, wrong choices."

"You painted all my nights, a color I have searched for since."

"Can I ask you a question?"

"Did you ever have someone kiss you in a crowded room?"

"It was one drink, after another."

"That's nice I'm sure, that's what's suitable and right but tonight."

"Draw the cat eye sharp enough to kill a man."

"You did some bad things, but I'm the worst of them."

"They say looks can kill, and I might try."

"Lately I've been dressing for revenge."

"Picture me thick as thieves with your ex wife/husband/spouse."

"I'm on my vigilante shit again.

Tracks 9-12

"Didn't notice you walking all over my peace of mind, in the shoes I gave you as a present."

"Putting someone first only works, when you're in their top five."

"By the way, I'm going out tonight."

"I can still make the whole place shimmer."

"Sadness became my whole sky."

"A diamond's gotta shine."

"It only hurts this much right now."

"Breathe in, breathe deep, breathe through, breathe out."

"I'll be getting over you, my whole life."

"Oh no, I'm falling in love again."

"Lost in the labyrinth of my mind."

"You would break your back to make me break a smile."

"You're talking shit, for the hell of it."

"You're terrified to look down."

"It's coming back around."

"I keep my side of the street clean, you wouldn't know what I mean."

"Ask me what I've learned from all those years, ask me what I've earned from all those tears."

"Ask me why so many fade, but I'm still here."

"We almost forgot it."

"They said the end is coming, everyone's up to something."

"All that you ever wanted from me was sweet nothing."

"On the way home, I wrote a poem."

"You should be doing more."

"I'm just too soft for all of it."

Tracks 13-17

"You and I ended up in the same room, at the same time."

"Checkmate, I couldn't lose."

"What if I told you none of it was accidental?"

"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail."

"No-one wanted to play with me as a little kid, so I've been scheming like a criminal ever since."

"This is the first time I've felt the need to confess."

"Spineless in my tomb of silence."

"Maybe it was egos swinging, maybe it was her/him/them."

"I vowed not to cry anymore."

"You said I have to trust more freely."

"Maybe it's the past that's talking, screaming from the crypt."

"It turned into something bigger, somewhere in the haze, got a sense I'd been betrayed."

"No words appear before me in the aftermath."

"Every single thing I touch becomes sick with sadness."

"Cause it's all over now, all out to sea."

"You were bigger than the whole sky."

"I've got a lot to live without."

"So I'll say words I don't believe."

"And all the outfits were terrible, 2003 unbearable."

"Did you see the photos?"

"No I didn't, but thanks though."

"I'm so in love that I might stop breathing."

"Like we were somewhere else."

"I wanna brainwash you into loving me forever."

"I didn't know you were keeping count."

"Put on your records and regret me."

"I bent the truth too far tonight."

"Do you really wanna know where I was April 29th?"

"Seemed like the right thing at the time."

"There's many different ways that you could kill the one you love, the slowest way is never loving them enough."

Tracks 18-20 + Hits Different & You're Losing Me

"We were supposed to be just friends."

"You don't live in my part of town, but maybe I'll see you out some weekend."

"I think there's been a glitch."

"Nights are so starry, blood moonlit."

"Must be counterfeit."

"I thought we had no chance, and that's romance."

"All I used to do was pray."

"And I damn sure never would have danced with the devil."

"The god's honest truth is that the pain was heaven."

"Memories feel like weapons."

"God rest my soul, I miss who I used to be."

"If clarity's in death then why won't this die?"

"If it feels like a trap, you're already in one."

"If you don't recognize yourself, that means you did it right."

"Never take advice from someone who's falling apart."

"When you aim at the devil, make sure you don't miss."

"So I wander through these nights, I prefer hiding in plain sight."

"You should find another guiding light."

"You made a mess of me."

Each bar plays our song, nothing has ever felt so wrong."

"Oh my, love is a lie; shit my friends say to get me by."

"Moving on was always easy for me to do."

"My sadness is contagious."

"Is it okay? Is it you? Or have they come to take me away?"

"We thought a cure would come through in time, now I fear it won't."

"Now I just sit in the dark and wonder if it's time."

"I'm getting tired even for a phoenix."

"I know my pain is such an imposition."

"I wouldn't marry me either, a pathological people pleaser who only wanted you to see her/him/them."

"I've got nothing to believe, unless you're choosing me."