KEATON HENSON’S “BIRTHDAYS” SENTENCE STARTERS
feel free to change pronouns, etc!
TEACH ME
‘ teach me how to love you like i wrote. ’
‘ teach me how to hold you in my arms without squeezing too damn tight and causing harm. ’
‘ i’ll learn not to look at you with scorn if you promise to never have been born. ’
‘ damn it, don’t expect me to change. ’
‘ mold me to the man that i should be, but don’t consider that man to be free. ’
‘ how am i expected to behave when i’m alone with myself everyday? ’
‘ i never loved you enough, my love. ’
‘ i’ll never hold you close enough. ’
10AM GARE DU NORD
‘ this feels right, and i’m letting it. ’
‘ i know just what to do. ’
‘ tire of me if you will, my dear, but i will not tire of you. ’
‘ it turns out that nothing is fair. ’
‘ you can leave me if you wish, my love, but i’m not going anywhere. ’
‘ i’m not going anywhere. ’
‘ you can leave me if you wish. ’
‘ please don’t hurt me. ’
‘ please don’t hurt me, love; i am a fragile one. ’
‘ please don’t break my heart. i think it’s had enough pain to last the rest of my life. ’
‘ my endless distraction, you worry me. ’
‘ you don’t have to make any promises. ’
‘ i’m afraid i might die for you now. ’
‘ i’d kill just to watch as you’re sleeping; i hope that you’ll let me in time. ’
‘ you don’t have to call me yours, but damn it, i’m calling you mine. ’
‘ i will not tire of you. ’
YOU
‘ if you must wait, wait here in my arms. ’
‘ if you must weep, do it right here. ’
‘ if you must mourn, my love, mourn with the moon and the stars up above. ’
‘ if you must mourn, don’t do it alone. ’
‘ if you must leave, leave as though fire burns under your feet. ’
‘ if you must die, sweetheart, die knowing your life was my life’s best part. ’
‘ if you must fight, fight with yourself and your thoughts in the night. ’
‘ work to leave some part of you on this earth. ’
‘ if you must live, darling one, just live. ’
‘ just live. ’
LYING TO YOU
‘ i can see in your eyes that you mean it. ’
‘ all of these years, you’ve been lonely. ’
‘ though you are right, i’ve been looking as well, i’m not looking for you. ’
‘ i’m just as disappointed as you, only i just do better to hide it. ’
‘ the one thing that keeps me from falling for you is i’m truly alone, and i like it. ’
‘ as we lie in bed, i feel lonely. ’
‘ though we’re young, i feel eight years old. ’
‘ i’m still feeling cold. ’
‘ you are lovely. you’re kind, and you’re beautiful, too. ’
‘ i feel in some way i do love you, but i’m not in love with you. ’
‘ why don’t i just keep on looking for her? cause i found her, but now she is gone. ’
THE BEST TODAY
‘ you seem to look through me. ’
‘ i wonder what you see. ’
‘ i wish i could stay with you. ’
‘ i figured you love to read. ’
‘ you probably love the sun. ’
‘ i think you’re the only one. ’
‘ i wish i could wake up at dawn to see you without make up on. ’
‘ you look the best today. ’
‘ i feel i know your smile, like i saw it when i was a child. ’
DON’T SWIM
‘ where have you been? ’
‘ how can you sleep? ’
‘ you’d be much better off there with him, promising to never let me in. ’
‘ i was better where i was miserable. ’
‘ i love you, please don’t go. ’
‘ don’t you sit there looking like you know that i’m the one that kept you from your home. ’
‘ tell him you’ll meet him at ten. just don’t let me see him again. ’
‘ i just don’t think i can lie. ’
KRONOS
‘ i’ve been looking for you all year long just to tell me i have not been wrong. ’
‘ is this all that you can give back? ’
‘ you’ll have to do worse than that. ’
‘ waking every day always leads straight to feeling this way. ’
‘ i’ll be leaving, and i won’t come back. ’
‘ i’d give you all i have. ’
‘ this has been the best of me. ’
‘ i hope you end up missing me, and i’ll hold onto that. ’
‘ is the water dragging at your feet, urging you to slip down underneath? ’
‘ are you gonna let me take your soul? ’
‘ are you gonna let me take your soul? my god, you really are. i’m gonna eat you whole. ’
BEEKEEPER
‘ believe me, this loneliness won’t go away. ’
‘ your friends will always just be in your way. ’
‘ trust me, they’ll die or leave you, either way. ’
‘ i’ve lost my mind. ’
‘ the devil’s got nothing on me, my friend. ’
‘ all i want is to be left alone. ’
‘ tact from me is like blood from a stone. ’
‘ my heart is dead for all to see. ’
SWEETHEART, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO US?
‘ what have you done to us? ’
‘ i turned my back, and it turned to dust. ’
‘ what have you done? ’
‘ please, just come here, don’t fight with me. ’
‘ i think you may have broken it. ’
‘ if all you wanted was songs for you, well here goes: after all that you’ve put me through, here’s one for you. ’
‘ don’t call me lover. ’
‘ don’t call me lover, it’s not enough. it’s got to be tough, cynical stuff. ’
‘ sweetheart, what have you done to our love? ’
IN THE MORNING
‘ is it morning yet? ’
‘ we have a couple hours left. ’
‘ god knows what will happen then. ’
‘ i will see you in the morning. ’
‘ i know every mark on your hand. ’
‘ you know crowds unsettle me. ’
‘ please don’t look at me like that. ’
MILK TEETH
‘ don’t think of me like that. ’
‘ just picture me leaving and not coming back. ’
‘ you ache from my love and it shows. let it go. ’
‘ one day you’ll drink from my bones, and scream as you rip out my throat. ’
‘ don’t let me go. ’
‘ this is your home now. ’
‘ is it love you regret? ’
‘ your eyes are so still when you speak. ’
‘ just take me home. ’
IF I DON’T HAVE TO
‘ i did it all for you. ’
‘ please don’t cry or say goodbye. ’
‘ i’ll love you until the day i die. every night, if that’s alright. ’
‘ do you know who i am? ’
‘ now that you’re all that i have, is it fair to love me too? ’
‘ it hurts because of you. ’
‘ i’ll kiss you through a hazmat suit. that’s what i’ll do if i have to. ’
‘ you seem to know who i am. ’
ON THE NEWS
‘ i saw you on the news. ’
‘ you’re looking like you ain’t got much to lose. ’
‘ come on, make me fall in love with you. ’
‘ please just make me tell the truth. ’
‘ do you wake up lonely every day? ’
‘ come on, baby, take me all the way. ’
‘ we can make it all the way. ’
‘ we’re all alone. ’
‘ turns out we don’t belong after all. ’
‘ this feels different than it felt before. ’
‘ i guess that you were just expecting more. come on, you knew me, what’d you do that for? ’
‘ i am selfish to my very core. ’
‘ let’s just have this fight todaya. say i’m worthless and you feel betrayed. ’
‘ don’t leave, i’ve got more to say. ’
‘ someday there’ll be hell to pay. ’
