💌 — a list of sentence starters from sabrina carpenter’s album emails i can’t send . feel free to change anything to better fit your muse .
emails i can’t send
‘ it’s times like these , wish i had a time machine . ’
‘ were you really asleep ? ’
‘ were you lying to me ? ’
‘ there’s no us in us . ’
‘ there’s no us in us when i’m lacking trust . ’
‘ ugh , you disgust me . ’
‘ don’t make me cuss you out . ’
‘ why’d you let me down? ’
‘ don’t say sorry now . ’
‘ thanks to you i- i can’t love right . ’
‘ i get nice guys and villainize them . ’
‘ read their texts like they’re having sex right now . scared i’ll find out that it’s true . ’
‘ i blame you . ’
‘ i blame you for every worst that i assumed . ’
‘ don’t think i’ll find forgiveness as fast as mom did . ’
‘ i love you but you’re such a dipshit . ’
‘ please fucking fix this . ’
vicious
‘ one year , ten thousand bad moments . ’
‘ it was dressed up in heated emotions . ’
‘ i tried to look for the best in the worst but like fuck me that caused a commotion . ’
‘ you’re lucky i’m a private person . ’
‘ i’ve quietly carried your burden . ’
‘ everyone thinks you’re an angel but shit , i would probably use different wording . ’
‘ everyone thinks you’re an angel . ’
‘ i would probably use different wording . . . ‘
‘ you’re so vicious . ‘
‘ love me then pretend you didn’t . ‘
‘ crush my heart and wreck my image . ‘
‘ why you gotta be so vicious ? ‘
‘ you like a certain type of woman . ‘
‘ when you’re insecure , could be me , could be her . you just run to whoever is winning . ‘
‘ said that it was me and you for life . now you’re kinda acting like i died . ‘
‘ you don’t feel remorse . ‘
‘ you don’t feel the effects . ‘
‘ you don’t think you hurt me if you wish me the best . ‘
‘ i should have known all along . ‘
‘ i was only the next one to take your love songs as a promise . ‘
‘ i loved you but i wish i didn’t . ‘
read your mind
‘ made it clear when you told me . ‘
‘ you gotta be lonely . ‘
‘ say it’s hard but you make it look easy . ‘
‘ i’m trying to live in reality . ‘
‘ decompression’ , tryna ease the tension . ‘
‘ you got me stressin ‘ . ‘
‘ feelin’ like i need to call . ‘
‘ you sneak up on me , tell me that you miss me in your life . ‘
‘ i can’t read your mind . ‘
‘ you say that you need to be alone but night and day , want me at your beck and call . ‘
‘ you might be crossing a line . ‘
‘ we could be casual . ‘
‘ you’re not my friend and baby , you never were . ‘
‘ why the fuss ? ‘
‘ tell me what’s gonna happen when it’s me and you in a room but you know you can’t have it ? ‘
‘ you say that you really have changed , finally found your way . ‘
‘ i’m close to your face . . . ‘
‘ did i get the message in the way you intended ? ‘
tornado warnings
‘ we were never in the park . ‘
‘ teetering with our feelings in the dark . ‘
‘ he didn’t hold me in his arms . ‘
‘ we didn’t stumble over the pages in our relationship arc , ignoring tornado warnings . ‘
‘ don’t understand how quickly we get right back in our rhythm without missing a step . ‘
‘ logically the last thing i should have on my mind but i want you there sometimes . ‘
‘ i’m lying to my therapist . ‘
‘ i never saw him and we never kissed . ‘
‘ if i could convince him , if he doesn’t see it , then maybe it doesn’t exist . ‘
‘ i’m over that son of a bitch . ‘
‘ i deserve an hour in a week to focus on my thoughts . ‘
‘ i deserve my own consideration . ‘
‘ sometimes i wish i kept some of my feelings in the basement so i’d still have some left . ‘
‘ i drive you home , you drive me crazy . ‘
‘ that’s not gonna stop me . ‘
‘ i call you out , you call me baby . ‘
because i liked a boy
‘ you said you knew a guy . ‘
‘ who knew cuddling on trampolines could be so reckless ? ‘
‘ we bonded over black eyed peas and complicated exes . ‘
‘ it was all so innocent . ‘
‘ i got death threats filling up semi trucks . ‘
‘ tell me who i am , guess i don’t have a choice . ‘
‘ all because i liked a boy . ‘
‘ i’m the hot topic on your tongue . ‘
‘ i’m a rebound getting round , stealin’ from the young . ‘
‘ i’m not catastrophizing , everything’s derailing . ‘
‘ was only trying to hold you close while your heart was failing . ‘
‘ just two kids going through it . ‘
‘ i’m too late to be your first love but i’ll always be your favorite . ‘
‘ dating boys with exes , no , i wouldn’t recommend it . ‘
‘ all of this , for what ? ‘
‘ when everything went down , we’d already broken up . ‘
already over
‘ we’ve been talking for hours . ‘
‘ we shouldn’t talk for hours on end . ‘
‘ kissing after a conversation about how we’d probably be better off as friends . ‘
‘ we’d probably be better off as friends . ‘
‘ same time here next weekend ? ‘
‘ we won’t do this again . ‘
‘ make me fall where i stand , only like you can . ‘
‘ i’m done . ‘
‘ i say i’m done but i’m still confused . ‘
‘ how am i supposed to close the door when i still need closure ? ‘
‘ i changed my mind but it’s still on you . ‘
‘ how am i supposed to leave you now that you’re already over ? ‘
‘ selfishly don’t wanna give you time to be on someone else’s lips . ‘
‘ i’ll take three short hours over three long weeks pretending like we don’t exist . ‘
‘ i know you’ll be coming back to the back bedroom and it won’t be the last time . ‘
‘ i like my bed . ‘
‘ i like my bed but it likes you too . ‘
how many things
‘ there’s no hiding from the thought of us . ‘
‘ i got ways to find you anywhere . ‘
‘ conversation took us everywhere . ‘
‘ we talked until the sun came up . ‘
‘ i wish we stayed just like we were up there . ‘
‘ i consider you , i’m not trying to . it doesn’t matter whether or not i want to . ‘
‘ i can’t help it . ‘
‘ it’s a habit . ‘
‘ your corner in my mind is well established . ‘
‘ i wonder how many things you think about before you get to me . ‘
‘ i feel myself falling further down your priorities . ‘
‘ i still make excuses for you constantly . ‘
‘ remember when you left once ? ‘
‘ that never made too much sense to me . ‘
‘ it hurt you so bad , hurting me . ‘
‘ you really came to me for sympathy . ‘
‘ am i not even a second thought ? ‘
bet u wanna
‘ told me i’m your only . ‘
‘ it’s all unfolding , babe . ‘
‘ slowly lies you sold me all saw the light of day . ‘
‘ you’ve been wasting time on the other side . ‘
‘ now you say you hate all the empty space and if you could go back , you’d stay . ‘
‘ didn’t think about it when you let me down . ‘
‘ it hurts to see me out of your reach . ‘
‘ bet you wanna touch me now . ‘
‘ it’s cold out there . ‘
‘ let me know what you found . ‘
‘ bet you wanna love me now . ‘
‘ fell the way it feels when you don’t have control of who i’m holding . ‘
‘ is it feeding all your fears ? ‘
‘ the lights are off . ‘
‘ your so called friends are gone . ‘
‘ i know what you’re about to say . ‘
‘ bet you miss me , bet you’re reminiscing . ‘
‘ i bet you hate the way you said goodbye . ‘
‘ you still can’t even tell me why . ‘
‘ i hate the way you left me dry . ‘
‘ i’ll keep that between you and i . ‘
nonsense
‘ think i only want one number in my phone . ‘
‘ i might change your contact to don’t leave me alone . ‘
‘ you said you like my eyes and you like to make them roll . ‘
‘ treat me like a queen , now you got me feeling thrown . ‘
‘ i can’t help myself when you get close to me . ‘
‘ my tongue goes numb . ‘
‘ i don’t want no one else , baby , i’m in too deep . ‘
‘ here’s a lil song i wrote , it’s about you and me . ‘
‘ it’s about you and me . ‘
‘ i’ll be honest . ‘
‘ lookin’ at you got me thinkin’ nonsense . ‘
‘ cartwheels in my stomach when you walk in . ‘
‘ i think i got an ex but i forgot him . ‘
‘ i can’t find my chill , i must have lost it . ‘
‘ hope nobody knocks . ‘
‘ i’m talkin’ opposite of soft . ‘
‘ i’m talkin’ wild , wild thoughts . ‘
‘ you gotta keep up with me . ‘
‘ i got some young energy . ‘
‘ i caught the l - o - v - e . ‘
‘ how do you do this to me ? ‘
‘ i don’t even know anymore . ‘
‘ i bet your house is where my other sock is . ‘
; woke up this morning , thought i’d write a pop hit . ‘
‘ how quickly can you take your clothes of ? pop quiz . ‘
fast times
‘ sun’s up too soon like daylight savings . ‘
‘ mixed emotions are congregating . ‘
‘ picturing us in all these places . ‘
‘ ahead of myself’s an understatement . ‘
‘ sky looks so purple , i can taste it . ‘
‘ couple days in , i call you baby . ‘
‘ what the fuck is patience ? ‘
‘ these are fast times and fast nights . ‘
‘ no time for rewrites . ‘
‘ we couldn’t help it . ‘
‘ give me a second to forget i ever really meant it . ‘
‘ my feelings used to be serrated . ‘
‘ you speak in such a perfect cadence . ‘
skinny dipping
‘ it’ll be a wednesday and i’ll be going to this coffee shop . ‘
‘ i look up from my phone and think there’s no chance it’s you but it is . ‘
‘ hi , how are you ? ‘
‘ how’s your family ? ‘
‘ how’s your sister ? ‘
‘ well , this was really nice . maybe we should do this on purpose sometime . ‘
‘ it’ll have been long enough that we won’t harp on arguments in your garage . ‘
‘ all the ways we sabotaged it . ‘
‘ what it was and what it wasn’t . ‘
‘ we’ve been swimming on the edge of a cliff . ‘
‘ i’m resistant but going down with the ship . ‘
‘ it’d be so nice , right ? if we could take it all off and just exist . ‘
‘ skinny dip in water under the bridge . ‘
‘ won’t that be too nostalgic ? ‘
‘ maybe but let’s do it anyway . ‘
‘ we won’t sit at our same old table , i promise . ‘
‘ we won’t bring up the past , we’ll keep it bureaucratic . ‘
‘ we’ll be thinking about how different we are from those scared little kids . ‘
bad for business
‘ he’s good for my heart . ‘
‘ he’s good for my heart but he’s bad for business . ‘
‘ he’s bad for business . ‘
‘ tears me apart when he grants my wishes . ‘
‘ all of my friends think i’ve gone crazy . ‘
‘ they don’t know me like my baby . ‘
‘ we look good in photographs . ‘
‘ i like the way you like to laugh at dirty jokes . ‘
‘ used to get to work on time but now you’re taking up my nights . ‘
‘ never been so glad to be so tired . ‘
‘ i’m mad for you . ‘
‘ you’re on my mind . ‘
‘ you stole my life and it’s showing . ‘
‘ if i’m just singing happy songs will anybody sing along ? ‘
‘ you had to go and break into my head . ‘
‘ i would try to fight these feelings . ‘
‘ i can’t find a single reason . ‘
‘ i’d make all the same mistakes again . ‘
‘ he ruined all my plans . ‘
‘ he just makes me so crazy . ‘
‘ i know everyone sees that he’ll be the death of me . ‘
decode
‘ you’re good at the falling , not the staying there . ‘
‘ you’re good at the giving too much then getting scared . ‘
‘ you’re good at impersonating someone who cares . ‘
‘ you had me for a minute there . ‘
‘ now i wonder why i let your confusion keep me up at night . ‘
‘ i’m so tired . ‘
‘ re - read every single undertone and i over analyzed it . front , back , and beside it . ‘
‘ where else can we go ? ‘
‘ there’s nothing left here to decode . ‘
‘ done looking for signs in the gaps and the silence . ‘
‘ it’s just getting old . ‘
‘ there’s a weight off my shoulders now that i don’t chase you . ‘
‘ being myself , did that emasculate you ? ‘
‘ learning from you that i can walk away too . ‘
‘ now i wonder why i let your indecisions keep me up at night . ‘
‘ unpacked every single word you wrote . ‘
‘ i wanna make a video to our future selves . ‘
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