• give me back my heart you wingless thing
• 'cause if we join out hands in prayer enough to god i imagine it all starts to sound like applause
• and what you see is not the dark it's just the gods upturning inkpots
• i can't do this (you can) i can't do this (you can) i can't do this (you can) i can't do this you don't understand
• and i can smell the smoke of hell in every stitch and seam
• and i promise to be patient and you promise to be kind
• are you god or devil
• but we'll burn a hundred theaters if it means we get the wallpaper right
• 'cause though my jokes are my armor and my kindness is my sword
• but like rubbing wine stains into rugs, it's my curse to try and make it right, but by trying make it worse
• it's what's engraved upon my heart in letters deeply worn
• i'll stay because i will be the man my father never was
• with you, i could summon the gods and the stars
• you angel heart you monster
• so hold me, lover, like you used to
• those songs we sung, those words we flung for fear of sound
• grow young each time that thunder in your lungs begins to rumble at the world
• you're brave because they broke you yet broken still you breathe
• 'cause i'm between that just one more and drank too much again
• i said i'm fine it's just a sitting down in the shower day
• your eyes aren't rivers there to weep but a place for crows to rest their feet
• shoulder the sky
• all your mother's weaves and your father's threads let me rob them of your now 'cause i'll darn you back together
• i'm the captain of courage you've eternally lacked i'm the jesus of wishing to christ he'll come back
• love does not exist here
• in the back of a cab, like two puppets with no strings
• this here is not makeup, it's a porcelain tomb and this here is not singing, i'm just screaming in tune
• you try so loud to love me i cannot seem to hear
• write me well my love, write me weird write me willing, write me well
• after summers of fasting, i feel hunger at last for the person 15-year-old me would be proud to have known
• we built our castles just to watch them wash away
• sometimes i fall to pieces just to see what bits of me don't fit
• 'cause darling i was born to press my head between your shoulder blades at night when light is fading
• welcome to my table, bring your hunger
• i'm lost i'm found in you
• i should go home i'm not lonely i just like being on my own
• our devils broke rank, and out of the depths came an army
• 'cause life begins by leaving and our love is shown in the letting go
• but if you ask me for my fire just watch me (just watch me) just watch me burn
• in the wreck of all we burnt stands our piano like a wound
• and when that fox howls i'll howl with it in it's cries i'll find an end
• you do not get to hurt me just because i asked you once if you were alright
• and in a moment of total rapture and with every strength i have i ask if you play D&D and your face lights up like you've woken up from this endless fucking nightmare of pretending this is you
• and to those gods i will speak bluntly we've an accord if you ever touch or harm him please rest assured that you might not fear a man but to a woman by the end you'll kneel and plea
• the mutterings of all your fears, the fluttering of all your wings
• and that voice unspoken's heard 'cause if god made us all in his image then god's a fucking nerd
• as i make myself acquainted with the saint of never getting it right

the  amazing  devil  lyric  sentence  starters ↪  taken  from  their  entire  discography  to  date.  trigger  warnings  for  religion,  depression,  alcohol,  war, sex,  &  more.  some  (  but  very  few  )  lyrics  have  been  tweaked  to  work  better  as  full  sentences.  alter  as  you  see  fit  ♡  this  is  a  long  post.

• “i can’t do this.”
• “never say how much you missed her, or that you kissed her sister.”
• “fuck all your plans i’m bored.”
• “i promise you i’ll be better.”
• “i made a vow out to the gods.”
• “wе didn’t talk. we made universеs out of bitten lips and broken hands.”
• “she laughs as though she’s not heard the joke ten thousand times before.”
• “we’ll talk about this tomorrow.”
• “you used to buy me scotch, but now too much is never enough.”
• “these aren’t tears, it’s just the rain that wasn’t brave enough to fall.”
• “don’t you realise? they’re just battle cries, dear.”
• “stop asking why i’m sad; just know it’s enough to know i’m sad.”
• “stop listening to the smiths.”
• “if you asked me, i would lose it all, like petals in a storm.”
• “it’s getting late.”
• “you’re lying on some coats.”
• “whatever you do, don’t turn.”
• “run until your lungs are numb.”
• “run to show that love’s worth running to.”
• “it cannot be a lie if no-one hears.”
• “how unreasonably in love i am with everything you do.”
• “they might laugh because you’re leaving, but know we’ll sing your name when you come home.”
• “for christ’s sake just say something.”
• “our love is shown in the letting go.”
• “this isn’t a break up, dear heart, it’s a season finale.”
• “and i’ll withstand what’s written for the writer in you.”
• “they’re discussing champagne.”
• “i pack what is needed for thе journey to come: all my books, all my bracken and booze.”
• “who’ll save you when you fall?”
• “sing me awake with a song about pirates.”
• “i’m not lonely if i’m with you.”
• “welcome to ruin.”
• “i do my best to breathe, but they’re stealing all the air.”
• “i’m dolled up, love.”
• “remember today you’re enough.”
• “know we’ll always love you, even though you’re leaving us behind.”
• “so breathe, breathe, just breathe.”
• “it’s nought that rum won’t solve.”
• “every time we watch netflix we spend two hours deciding what to watch on netflix.”
• “i’m between that ‘just one more’ and ‘drank too much again’.”
• “this here is not singing, i’m just screaming in tune.”
• “i don’t know what to do, how to help her, how to bring her home.”
• “i can’t wait to show you how much i know you can be.”
• “let’s wander, ‘til the fuckers demand an encore.”
• “some fictions we took to mean fate.”
• “the party swirls around me in a dress i can’t afford.”
• “if by palace you mean that asbestos, and beans from a tin, and the gin that we brewed in the bathtub.”
• “it’s not fair how much i love you.”
• “it’s what my heart just yearns to say in ways that can’t be said.”
• “a storm is coming on.”
• “come on, love, please don’t start.”
• “never really liked the pattern that much on the wallpaper so anyway.”
• “you brought me through this darkness but you left me here behind.”
• “i’ve got something in my eye.”
• “they’re just dollops of paint on a new work of art.”
• “i’ve seen enough.”
• “you’ll love the way i tell it.”
• “for some reason you’ve painted the kitchen lime green.”
• “you’re the words that i promise i don’t mean.”
• “i surrender what was, what could have been.”
• “got a headache that just won't shift.”
• “it’s what my rotting bones will sing when the rest of me is dead.”
• “i know the kindest thing is to leave you alone.”
• “i wish that i could take his hand, but where i’m going is for me and me alone.”
• “i chipped my teeth on every joke you cracked.”
• “and when i think i’m fine, you’ll visit.”
• “tell the truth to me, love, does my hair look as nice as it did when it once tangled up in your eyes?”
• “i will bring you ruin in everything i do.”
• “i might not make it tonight.”
• “you angel heart. you monster, oh, some godforsaken prospero.”
• “if you knew all that i’d done …”
• “remember me i ask.”
• “they’re running out of things to hold.”
• “back then you had hair and your smile was so sublime.”
• “if you knew all that i’d done … the hearts i’ve broken.”
• “write me well my love, write me weird, write me willing, write me well.”
• “don’t say anything.”
• “you don’t see daylight anymore.”
• “don’t you know that it’s not all about you anyway?”
• “i promise you i’ll try.”
• “pray for me ‘cause i won’t pray for you.”
• “let’s hide under the covers.”
• “she sang, ‘do you think i’m sexy?’ and oh god i really did.”
• “and for some godforsaken reason i’m still here, love, like i’ve always been before.”
• “we’ll build a den out of pillows and get drunk again.”
• “all that matters is that you’re here.”
• “just because i left doesn’t mean that i’m not still there.”
• “i’ve waited oh so long for you to come.”
• “it seems to me that you can’t sleep.”
• “oh, if one more guy calls me darling then i swear to you and to god i will murder them all.”
• “wе’re both unwanted daughters.”
• “do you like my dress? it’s got pockets.”
• “there’s only faces of the unfamous dead; full of people just pretending to be brave.”
• “i’ve run out of my words, my song, just let me die.”
• “so one last time, love, come and rip my clothes off.”
• “when you think about him, my wings start to flap.”
• “don’t you think i look pretty curled up on this bathroom floor?”
• “run for all the things you wished you’d done.”
• “why are you wearing all that make up?”
• “and now, even though you’re mad and these memories won’t stay, that’s okay, 'cause then i get to meet you for the first time every single day.”
• “i’m learning to be so much more than my tiredness.”
• “gonna go home and show my cat some memes.”
• “can’t you see that i’m enough for you but you don’t want me to be, 'cause that means you’ll actually have to be content?”
• “i don’t find this easy like you.”
• “i loved him then, i love him still.”
• “you can’t rehearse the chorus, but the verse is sweet.”
• “i steal the hours and turn the night into day.”
• “i don’t know how to reach you when you get like this.”
• “i’m the heartbreak that aches far too much to be shunned.”
• “you’re not a coward 'cause you cower; you’re brave because they broke you, yet broken still you breathe.”
• “i’m at the brink, don’t laugh.”
• “i’d bruise you.”
• “i’ll run until i begin to understand what holy men really mean when they speak of sin.”
• “i said ‘pour’ and forgot to say ‘when’.”
• “​​champagne’s the main course.”
• “we’ll dance together so close we’re sharing breath.”
• “i wish i’d known these stones were something i could save.”
• “i love you less.”
• “get a grip, we’re grownups.”
• “let’s take this outside 'cause we’re one and the same.”
• “a broken pot can still hold water.”
• “i spend my days so close to you 'cause if i’m standing here, maybe everyone will think i’m alright.”
• “think of all the horrors that i promised you i’d bring.”
• “can you pass me the lighter mate?”
• “i’m fine, it’s just a ‘sitting down in the shower’ day.”
• “now take a good long look at what you’ve done to me.”
• “with you, i could summon the gods and the stars.”
• “gonna go home and dress my cat up like batman.”
• “on that tree i’ll carve your name ‘cause in years to come we both know we won’t be the same.”
• “we can both barely stand.”
• “i can smell the smoke of hell.”
• “if there was one place i could be right now, i’d be standing there between you and him.”
• “ ‘cause darling, i was born to press my head between your shoulder blades.”
• “i raged so much.”
• “you are that space that’s in between every page, every chord and every screen.”
• “i’m all yours.”
• “i try so hard to make you laugh at me.”
• “but like rubbing wine stains into rugs, it’s my curse to try and make it right, but by trying make it worse.”
• “i’m so sorry, i’ve done it again.”
• “it’s up to you now.”
• “i get to watch you grow up now and make me proud, make all of those mistakes that make me laugh.”
• “where’s the vodka?”
• “something’s sucking out your core.”
• “what you see is not the dark, it’s just the gods upturning inkpots.”
• “who died and made you king of it all?”
• “it seems to me that you you can’t dance for shit.”
• “there’s no fucking way you’re from [place].”
• “we didn’t talk.”
• “and the candle we lit, well we’ll use it to burn this whole place to the ground.”
• “he said, hey, darling, hey, hey, darling, hey.”
• “i know they think i’m nightmare.”
• “take my hand, let us waltz for the dead.”
• “for you, i would have gone so much blonder.”
• “it’s not fair, 'cause you make me laugh when i’m actually really fucking cross at you for something.”
• “go tell them how we failed you.”
• “symphonies and sweat and sex mean nothing when you are obsessed with sin and soil and strength and song and all the words that came out wrong and him.”
• “we don’t know what’s out there.”
• “i look into the waters and see a face i don’t recognise.”
• “let’s try and fit into the same pair of stretchy old track pants and just roll around inside each other for three whole days.”
• “we showed the world that we exist.”
• “your smile tells me i’m safe.”
• “it’s like all the wallpaper inside my heart is slowly slowly peeling off and i’m showing all the stains and things they wrote on the wall before.”
• “might you allow me to slip into something more comfortable then?”
• “you stole the best years of my life.”
• “all hell and its fire waits for us.”
• “we’ll make our christmas decorations out of toilet roll tubes and tinfoil.”
• “how bold i was, could be - will be - still am, by god still am.”
• “it’s what i meant.”
• “welcome to my table, bring your hunger.”
• “you’re the one who told me my hair looked better black.”
• “i’ll sing silence, and ask my glass of wine for guidance.”
• “what changed?”
• “'then maybe you’d still be snuggled here in my bed watching netflix. and now i can’t 'cause you changed the password when you left.”
• “i wish that i’d been brave.”
• “we callеd them all liars.”
• “but you lack the conviction to look at me straight and say yes.”
• “there’s something changed.”
• “give me two damn minutes and i’ll be fine.”
• “you watch the stars hurl all their fundaments in wonderment.”
• “get drunk for me, sing louder than you’ve sung for me.”
• “what’s that hold that the big dark king of nothing has got on you?”
• “but i’ll stick up for you, even though you haven’t got a fucking clue.”
• “i cannot sleep when all you do is cry.”
• “i toast to their talents.”
• “how wrong you were.”
• “i tried, i really fucking tried.”
• “'cause although you say good day to me, i know i don’t belong.”
• “sweet nothings are screamed not spoken.”
• “back then i was dauntless.”
• “all the bastards applaud when i show that i’m flawed.”
• “now my ink’s blood-red, not black.”
• “it’s just sometimes nice to feel what it’s like to be in someone else’s coat.”
• “you were raised by wolves and voices.”
• “i mop up what is left of my lungs.”
• “i could try to calm you down but i know you won’t.”
• “it’s my dad’s.”
• “you were supposed to be my light and keep me safe against them all. how could you leave me here?”
• “everyone knows how sex is better when you’re unemployed.”
• “and i laugh, and i laugh ‘cause laughing right now, it’s all, it’s all that i have.”
• “farewell wanderlust, you’ve been oh so kind.”
• “you’re not flawed darling, you’re just a little under-rehearsed.”
• “it’s never my intention but it happens all the same.”
• “your eyes aren’t rivers there to weep, but a place for crows to rest their feet.”
• “i’m not going to scream, beat my chest at the wind. i’m doing fine.”
• “you’ll never get your dinner if you don’t learn how to get along.”
• “oh we, we’re gonna get on.”
• “i make myself acquainted with the saint of never getting it right.”
• “i would have stayed if you’d had asked.”
• “fret not dear heart.”
• “i’m here and i’m alive.”
• “this is us, this is me, and this how we’re meant to be.”
• “i cannot find the words to keep you.”
• “come rest for the winter, wear my jumper all night long.”
• “you look like i need a drink.”
• “are you god or devil?”
• “i’m the hardest goodbye that you’ll ever have to say.”
• “i’ll play our song to see if the piano’s in tune.”
• “come rip up the flesh of my fears.”
• “do you think she even knows i bought my shoes from oxfam?”
• “could be ghosts or monsters or a robot vampire, i dunno.”
• “what the hell went wrong, 'cause we had this planned.”
• “without you, i’m stronger, i’m no longer filled with wonder.”
• “the best laid plans had it all planned.”
• “oh darling lord, how you make me laugh.”
• “look at me as you say this, don’t look at your phone.”
• “i know i won’t be long ‘cause i know i don’t belong.”
• “can’t you see that i’m enough for you but you don’t want me to be?”
• “do y’know what they cost?”
• “if god make us all in his image, then god’s a fucking nerd.”
• “if i’m good, will you come back?”
• “is that what you think of me now?”
• “i should go home.”
• “i’ll spend my days so close to you 'cause if i’m standing here maybe everyone will think i’m cool.”
• “i know she’s giving up.”
• “he’s falling out of touch.”
• “you don’t have to be brilliant.”
• “i promise you there’s more.”
• “i need a drink or two.”
• “you dad will forget the words.”
• “and i love you, don’t you know.”
• “do i have to be who i am?”
• “i’ll give them back.”
• “i’ll yell it from the rooftops for you.”
• “it’s just your voice learning for once to stand up tall.”
• “every night i hear them howling.”
• “for a time there is timelessness.”
• “you’re all mine.”
• “you gave us such a fright.”
• “i won’t let you turn our last night into this.”
• “i’ve been waiting for you to come home.”
• “let not them hear the mutterings of all your fears.”
• “i know exactly what i want, and it’s this life that we’ve created.”
• “this here is not makeup, it’s a porcelain tomb.”
• “my heart is tearing pages from that funny story i rehearsed.”
• “i’m not lonеly, i just like being on my own.”
• “are you cain, 'cause i’m not abel.”
• “yeah, well i’m sorry too.”
• “take me back to that dance hall where you got thrown out 'cause they thought you were drunk.”
• “you are screaming far too loud to hear me swear.”
• “for the first time in all my life, i know i’m more than what i fear.”
• “i’ll take my fucking time.”
• “can’t we just talk about this?”
• “certainly fucking feels like it.”
• “i’m not telling but you can fuck off if no one will come back for you.”
• “you’re better than this.”
• “you’re going too fast.”
• “he’s got so much fucking hair.”
• “sometimes i fall to pieces, just to see what bits of me don’t fit.”
• “of all the flowers you picked, i knew you would forget forget-me-nots.”
• “don’t you ever wonder what could have been?”
• “my dress is on fire.”
• “we don’t have time to fuck around.”
• “i will be the man my father never was.”
• “the oldies at the back try their best to hack their way out with the gardener’s pruning shears.”
• “did you tell them about the time we met?”
• “your face lights up like you’ve woken up from this endless fucking nightmare of pretending this is you.”
• “if we join our hands in prayer enough to god, i imagine it all starts to sound like applause.”
• “and fucking bastard what is it.”
• “but now i’m leading doesn’t that just scare you to death?”
• “although you hold my hand and say ‘i love you,’ you are wrong.”
• “they’ll sing of every time you passed your fingers through my hair and called me child.”
• “let’s dance together.”
• “i hope to god i’m not the first.”
• “we’re drunk but drinking.”
• “a new us has begun.”
• “i will try to harmonise.”
• “witness me, old man, i am the wild.”
• “please don’t do this, my heart is breaking.”
• “my head’s not yours it’s mine.”
• “stop making up death wishes.”
• “you do not get to hurt me just because i asked you once if you were alright.”
• “want some pancakes?”
• “i can’t do this, you don’t understand.”
• “they’ll speak of me in whispered tones and say my name like it shakes their bones.”
• “i’m stronger now than you have ever known.”
• “you couldn’t lie then and you sure as hell can’t lie to me now.”
• “so long to the person you begged me to be.”
• “nothing quite prepares you for when they don’t come back.”
• “i forgot to pack them lunches.”
• “he’s awesome, like me.”
• “flirting at the back of a bookshop.”
• “i forgive them at last.”
• “if you ever touch or harm him, please rest assured that you might not fear a man, but to a woman by the end you’ll kneel and plea.”
• “why won’t you just tell them all to fuck off, love, and be mine?”
• “welcome to the storm, i am thunder.”
• “i’d burn so bright it blinded.”
• “it’s not fair 'cause you make me ache, you bastard.”
• “i’d catch you every time you fell.”
• “give me back my heart, you wingless thing.”
• “can’t you hear that scratching? there’s something at the door.”
• “you say the words so often that i barely know the meaning.”
• “you are in the earth of me.”
• “do you like my accent?”
• “why won’t you believe i love you if i’m not hurting you?”
• “oh, the hearts i’ve broken …”
• “what you hear is not silence, it’s just the trees waiting to hear what next you’ll hum.”
• “that creaking you hear in my bones is not pain, it’s applause.”
• “don’t turn around dear.”
• “with every strength i have, i ask if you play d&d.”
• “hold my hand.”
• “my friends are telling me i’m pissed.”
• “you try so hard.”
• “run for all you know that’s coming.”
• “you brought me to this party but you left me here behind.”
• “i love you.”
• “i wish i’d done things different.”
• “it doesn’t know how to get out.”
• “i don’t know, but i’m here, i’m all yours, dear heart, don’t cry.”
• “i look at the phone on the floor and i drink that nice wine you were saving.”
• “watch me choke at your bad joke.”
• “they said it all comes down to you.”
• “i won’t leave without a fight.”
• “when you were young, you’d kick things just to see if they would fall.”
• “i know the kindest thing is to never leave you alone.”
• “’cause i’m not trapped, with you, you see - you’re the one who’s trapped with me.”
• “christ, you’ll be the death of me.”
• “you’re the one who told me to never look back.”
• “my jokes are my armour, and my kindness is my sword.”
• “i make jokes to show how broken i really am.”
• “you were in a band.”
• “remember today you are loved.”
• “hold me, lover, like you used to.”
• “and i will wait and hope and rest my head at night content knowing where my marbles went.”
• “me wearing your clothes just to surprise you when you come home all tired of those wankers that you serve all night.”
• “it’s saving me now, love.”
• “how the fuck am i supposed to carry on without you here?”
• “the wine stains hide the tears.”
• “you rip my ribcage open and devour what’s truly yours.”
• “what’s the point anymore?”
• “don’t lie with your eyes, you know i despise that look.”
• “oh my god it’s so unfair.”
• “be good to me.”
• “and that drink, will it fix all those questions unasked?”
• “i am the wild.”
• “i know you’re strong enough to do this on your own.”
• “i know that i’ve been through the wars.”
• “you’re the thigh-high hemline i just can’t stop staring at.”
• “he doesn’t understand.”
• “today i somehow understand the reason i was born.”
• “fuck you.”
• “but where you see weakness i see wit.”
• “the minute i met you, the colours of my life began to pour.”
• “try please try for me.”
• “i pick up the phone, dial your number and wait.”
• “i’ve loved you, for a hundred years.”
• “why so sad?”
• “if my old mum could see me now, oh how she’d howl.”
• “i put up fairy lights just to distract you.”
• “i’ve even learned to cook.”
• “you’ve no clue how to sew.”
• “we’d hate to see your mascara drip into your pint.”
• “i’m filming shit on that camera you nicked.”
• “you don’t need to pretend to be someone you’re not.”
• “our gods have abandoned us.”
• “i’m the tales that the guests will applaud and believe.”
• “a song you know's begun.”
• “oh those folks will run and tell the tales of what i’ve become.”
• “where have you been?”
• “i’m the captain of courage you’ve eternally lacked.”
• “i watched that woman drown.”
• “where i’m going is for me and me alone.”
• “i’ll run until i begin to understand what holy men really mean when they speak of sand and sons and seams and symphonies and sweat and sex and sin.”
• “it’s so boring.”
• “you dragged us both into the darkness that grows.”
• “tear me up and burn me up and rip me up and leave your hand on the wall as you go.”
• “it’s not fair 'cause you make me weep when i’m just trying to watch the office with my yoghurt.”
• “be good, be safe, be kind.”
• “what’s left is the mess that you left when you told me i wasn’t right in the head.”
• “go tell them how we fucked you up.”
• “i don’t want them to go.”
• “just relax and come to bed with me.”
• “you try so loud to love me; i cannot seem to hear.”
• “i’ll darn you back together.”
• “tomorrow’s jokes have yet to be laughed at or said.”
• “i promise you i’m not broken.”
• “i promise to be patient.”
• “i’ve been here so many times before.”
• “you’re so beautiful to me.”
• “i’m untangling my headphones ‘cause sometimes they’re the only thing that keeps my head in place.
• “i’m going to binge watch a box set, drink wine, reminisce.”
• “pour me wine by my bed.”
• “i’ll watch her ruin her life and dye her hair bright colours.”
• “you promise to be kind.”
• “oh, darling, please be mine.”
• “i drag myself like a rug in the rain.”
• “i’m your angel ellipsis, your devil of dots.”
• “i promise you i’ll write.”
• “i’m the saint of the paint that was left in the pot.”
• “it’s so boring to see you tired all the time.”
• “i’m scared of the dark.”
• “these hands are growing cold.”
• “i know your fingernails are the colour of rust.”
• “if i don’t make it back from where i’ve gone, just know i loved you all along.”
• “you’re the one who asked me if i’m feeling ok.”
• “honey i’m no man, i’m what’s left when children go to war.”
• “back then i wasn’t hopeful.”
• “just watch me burn.”
• “i’ll make a hundred paper planes to decorate our tiny room.”
• “why won’t you let me follow in your footsteps as you trek into that underground world?”