β
Who are you?
Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?
Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?
I have. I am fucking crazy.
But I am free.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
I was always an unusual girl.
My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
When youβre an introvert like me and youβve been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. Itβs a real release.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
Thatβs how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)
β
β
Ally Condie (Matched (Matched, #1))
β
Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
it takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
when your happiness is someone else's happiness, that is love
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
I've got a war in my mind
β
β
Lana Del Rey (Lana Del Rey - Born to Die: The Paradise Edition)
β
I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.
Who had nothing, who wanted everything.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity and principals of uncertainty. Phenomena that determine the course of our lives. Yesterday, my life was headed in one direction. Today, it is headed in another. Yesterday, I believe I would never have done what I did today. These forces that often remake time and space, that can shape and alter who we
imagine ourselves to be, begin long before we are born and continue after we perish. Our lives and our choices, like quantum trajectories, are understood moment to moment. That each point of intersection, each encounter, suggest a new potential direction. Proposition, I have fallen in love with Luisa Rey. Is this possible? I just met her and yet, I feel like something important has happened to me.
β
β
David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas)
β
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.
β
β
Thornton Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Rey)
β
Loving you forever can't be wrong. Even though you're not here, can't move on
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
How would you like your eggs?"
I tried. I really did. But I glanced at his crotch and it came out anyway. "Fertilized?
β
β
Darynda Jones (Fifth Grave Past the Light (Charley Davidson, #5))
β
I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy.
I'm tired of driving till I see stars in my eyes.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
But, you're his son," I said, trying really hard to hate him. "You're the son of Satan. Literally."
"And you are the stepdaughter of Denise Davidson."
Wow. That was a bit harsh, but, "Okay, point taken.
β
β
Darynda Jones (First Grave on the Right (Charley Davidson, #1))
β
But I didn't really mind it because I knew that it
takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it to know what
true freedom is.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
Paris answered for him. "Last time he spread the flashing love, Reyes threw up all over his shirt. I never laughed so hard in my life. Lucien, though, has no sense of humor and vowed never to take us again."
"I'm surprised you didn't mention the part where you fainted," Lucien said wryly.
Strider chortled. "Oh, man. You fainted? What a baby!"
"Hey," Paris said, frowning at Lucien. "I told you I hit my head midflash."
Lucien
β
β
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Kiss (Lords of the Underworld, #2))
β
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
β
β
Thornton Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Rey)
β
Legion hissed like a startled cat, the noise scraping at Reyesβs skin. βMe no boy. You think me a boy?β
Everyone stopped, stared. Even Aeron.
Reyes was the first to find his voice. βYouβre aβ¦girl?β
A nod. βMe pretty.β
βYes, you are.β Reyes exchanged a glance with Lucien. βBeautiful.
β
β
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Pleasure (Lords of the Underworld, #3))
β
I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken.
But I didn't really mind, because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
Money is the anthem, of succes, so put on your mascara and your party dress
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won't fail forever.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
And I remember when I met him, it was so clear that he was the only one for me. We both knew it, right away. And as the years went on, things got more difficult β we were faced with more challenges. I begged him to stay. Try to remember what we had at the beginning.
He was charismatic, magnetic, electric and everybody knew it. When he walked in every womanβs head turned, everyone stood up to talk to him. He was like this hybrid, this mix of a man who couldnβt contain himself. I always got the sense that he became torn between being a good person and missing out on all of the opportunities that life could offer a man as magnificent as him. And in that way, I understood him and I loved him.
I loved him, I loved him, I loved him.
And I still love him. I love him.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
Doing what you love is freedom.
Loving
what you do is happiness.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
Every night I used to pray that Iβd find my people, and finally I did on the open road.
We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast
I am alone in the night
Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I
I've got a war in my mind
So, I just ride
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
I brought out the most powerful tool I had in my arsenal. "If you resist," I said into Reyes's ear, "I'll be forced to Taser you."
He looked at what I had in my hand. "That's a phone."
"I have an app. You'll probably experience nerve damage. Slight memory loss.
β
β
Darynda Jones (Fifth Grave Past the Light (Charley Davidson, #5))
β
In the Land of Gods and Monsters I was an angel looking to get fucked hard
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
Todos estos libros, lo noto, me estΓ‘n cambiando por dentro. Yo no podΓa imaginarme que esto de leer era como vivir.
β
β
Rosa Montero (Historia del rey transparente)
β
Bomb', Reyes said, not bothering to look up.
'One of ours?' Maddox insisted...
'Hardly. I know better than to blow myself up,' Reyes sighed.
β
β
Gena Showalter (The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld, #1))
β
I can hear other things, too. Before you came around, I had no idea a man could make a girl scream like that. Reyes seems very talented.
β
β
Darynda Jones (Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet (Charley Davidson, #4))
β
How does Reyes feel about him?"
"He would rip out his spine if I let him."
She patted my knee. "I would expect nothing less from the son of evil incarnate. He's a good guy.
β
β
Darynda Jones (Sixth Grave on the Edge (Charley Davidson, #6))
β
Think I'll miss you forever,
Like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough.
I donβt know why.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
Find someone who has the life that you want and figure how they got it. Read books. Pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
What do you want?"
"You," he said, his voice lowering an octave. "I want you, Dutch, body and soul. I want you in my bed every night. I want you there when I wake up in the morning. I want your clothes strung across my apartment and your scent on my skin.
β
β
Darynda Jones (Fifth Grave Past the Light (Charley Davidson, #5))
β
The road is long, we carry on, try to have fun in the meantime.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
I measure time by the days I've spent away from you/ that thought occurred to me/ as i watched the sky go dark from blue
β
β
Lana Del Rey (Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass)
β
I was just passing by. Saw the commotion. Figured you were involved.
β
β
Darynda Jones (Fifth Grave Past the Light (Charley Davidson, #5))
β
I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion.
β
β
Elizabeth Reyes
β
I noticed you tore down Donovan's house."
He lifted his gaze until it locked with mine. "He's alive because he left town. His house chose to stay. It paid the price.
β
β
Darynda Jones (Fifth Grave Past the Light (Charley Davidson, #5))
β
Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but there may never be two that love one another equally well.
β
β
Thornton Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Rey)
β
They judge me like a picture book,
For the colours like they forgot to read
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
Mary praise the rosary for my broken mind.
β
β
Lana Del Rey (Lana Del Rey - Born to Die: The Paradise Edition)
β
Is that what you think? That I follow you around to keep your ass out of trouble?"
"If so, you're not very good at your job."
A huge smile spread across his face. "True enough. So what's eating you? Because, sadly, it's not me.
β
β
Darynda Jones (Fifth Grave Past the Light (Charley Davidson, #5))
β
My father's love was always strong
My mother's glamour lives on and on.
Yet still inside I felt alone,
for reasons unknown to me.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
I was in the winter of my life- and the men I met along the road were my only summer. At night I fell sleep with visions of myself dancing and laughing and crying with them. Three years down the line of being on an endless world tour and memories of them were the only things that sustained me, and my only real happy times. I was a singer, not a very popular one, who once had dreams of becoming a beautiful poet- but upon an unfortunate series of events saw those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again- sparkling and broken. But I really didnβt mind because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it to know what true freedom is.
When the people I used to know found out what I had been doing, how I had been living- they asked me why. But thereβs no use in talking to people who have a home, they have no idea what its like to seek safety in other people, for home to be wherever you lay your head.
I was always an unusual girl, my mother told me that I had a chameleon soul. No moral compass pointing me due north, no fixed personality. Just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide as wavering as the ocean. And if I said that I didn't plan for it to turn out this way Iβd be lying- because I was born to be the other woman. I belonged to no one- who belonged to everyone, who had nothing- who wanted everything with a fire for every experience and an obsession for freedom that terrified me to the point that I couldnβt even talk about- and pushed me to a nomadic point of madness that both dazzled and dizzied me.
Every night I used to pray that Iβd find my people- and finally I did- on the open road. We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
Will you still love me
When I'm no longer young and beautiful?
Will you still love me
When I got nothing but my aching soul?
I know you will, I know you will
I know that you will
Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful?
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
Marcoβs heart swelled with pride at his culture. Maybe it was the coquito, but his eyes teared at this beautiful Reyes celebration, heavenly food, lush green mountains, clean air, and his familyβs delighted faces. He felt sorry for the stiff people at the Casino de Puerto Rico, pretending to be jΓbaros and eating food half as delicious as this. Actually, no. He didnβt feel sorry for them. It was precisely what they deserved.
β
β
Margarita Barresi (A Delicate Marriage)
β
I am my only God.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
in my veins that roll you run citrus watercolor images of serpents on orange trees quietly arise and grow sweet in my midst
β
β
Lana Del Rey (Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass)
β
Springsteen is the king, don't you think? I was like, hell yeah, that guy can sing.
β
β
Lana Del Rey (Lana Del Rey - Born to Die: The Paradise Edition)
β
LA who am I to need you
when I've needed so much, asked for so much?
And what I've been given, I don't know yet
β
β
Lana Del Rey (Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass)
β
You're divine.
Didn't anyone ever tell you
It's OK to shine?
β
β
Lana Del Rey (Lana Del Rey - Born to Die: The Paradise Edition)
β
He's an enigma wrapped up in sensuality padlocked with a dozen chains of desire and topped off with a razor-sharp ribbon of danger. There are more layers to him than a billionaire's wedding cake.
β
β
Darynda Jones (Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet (Charley Davidson, #4))
β
Hey, wait," I said, pulling back, "you are the son of Satan. Maybe we need a safe word."
His grin morphed into something wickedly charming. "Okay, how about, 'Oh, my god, it's so big.'"
Laughter burst out of me before I could stop it. Not that it wasn't. "That would be a safe phrase, but okay." I thought about it, then said, "How about 'Is that all you've got?
β
β
Darynda Jones (Fifth Grave Past the Light (Charley Davidson, #5))
β
We ourselves shall be loved for awhile and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses
of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
β
β
Thornton Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Rey)
β
A wicked grin crinkled one corner of his mouth as he secured another sticky note on the door before shutting it in my face.
I blinked, then read the note.
Use the key.
β
β
Darynda Jones (Fifth Grave Past the Light (Charley Davidson, #5))
β
Hello heaven, you are a tunnel lined with yellow lights on a dark night.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
I was always an unusual girl,
my mother told me I had a chameleon soul
No moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality;
just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean
I belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone
who had nothing, who wanted everything
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
I feel free when I see no one and nobody knows my name
β
β
Lana Del Rey (Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon)
β
The next thing I remembered was Reyes smiling down at me as the sun filtered into his apartment, his hair mussed, his lids hooded with the thick remnants of sleep. I stretched as those three little words that every girl longs to hear slipped from his mouth with effortless ease. As though they did every day. As though they didn't mean the world to me.
With one corner of his mouth tipping sensually, he asked, "Want some coffee?"
And I fell.
I fell hard.
β
β
Darynda Jones (Sixth Grave on the Edge (Charley Davidson, #6))
β
Everytime I close my eyes it's like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, I'm scared that you won't be waiting on the other side.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
You're only as happy as your least happy child.
β
β
Lana Del Rey (Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass)
β
Be the art that life is breathing.
Be the soul the world is living.
β
β
Lana Del Rey (Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass)
β
My father's love was always strongMy mother's glamour lives on and on.Yet still inside I felt alone,Β for reasones unknow to me.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
I stepped on a bird/ cried in my new boyfriend's arms/ to live is to kill
β
β
Lana Del Rey (Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass)
β
I was filled with poison, but blessed with beauty and rage
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
Youβre the reason I breathe
β
β
Darynda Jones (Second Grave on the Left (Charley Davidson, #2))
β
i like u so much/ but it makes me nervous when u don't call/ under my breath i say/ Don't make me be resilient/ i want to be soft/ if u let me be myself/ u will be the first one who ever did.
β
β
Lana Del Rey (Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass)
β
Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
β
β
Thornton Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Rey)
β
Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.
β
β
Thornton Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Rey)
β
His Parliament's on fire and his hands are up.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
You still owe me a million dollars." I'd presented him with a bill for proving his innocence and getting him freed from prison. He had yet to pay. Couldn't imagine why.
"Yeah, I was hoping we could work that out."
"The interest alone is going to kill you."
"What do you charge?"
"Three hundred eighty-seven percent."
"Is that ethical?"
"It's as ethical as my dating the son of Satan.
β
β
Darynda Jones (Fifth Grave Past the Light (Charley Davidson, #5))
β
Reyes. Alexander. Farrow," I said.
Seconds after I spoke his name, Reyes walked into his bedroom, and I looked across the open space directly from my room into his.
He waited for me to continue.
"I feel like there's something missing from my bedroom."
A dimple appeared at the corner of his mouth. "You don't say."
"Any idea what that might be?"
He glanced around my room as well, then shrugged. "I can't imagine."
"Oh, wait," I said, stepping from my room into his, "wasn't there something here? Like, I don't know, a wall or something?"
He looked up. "You could be right. I do seem to remember a barrier of some kind here."
"Yep," I said, stepping closer, "I definitely remember a partition separating our apartments." When his only response was a mischievous tilt of his full mouth, I asked, "Where did you put my wall?"
He crossed his arms over his chest and leaned against his doorframe. "What makes you think I took it?"
"It was there this morning."
"And that means I took it? Maybe you just misplaced it. Where exactly did you see it last?"
I pressed my lips together. "You tore down my wall."
The smile he wore could've charmed the panties off a nun. Completely unrepentant, he admitted, "I tore down your wall.
β
β
Darynda Jones (Sixth Grave on the Edge (Charley Davidson, #6))
β
We should date."
I laughed, curled him into my arms, and kissed the soft spot underneath his earlobe. "You're going to have to go to obedience school for that to happen. You have authority issues."
"Never mind. We should have sex again and then date."
"Since you put it that way, okay.
β
β
Darynda Jones (Fifth Grave Past the Light (Charley Davidson, #5))
β
We stood there, the three of us, our jaws firmly planted on the floor. Aunt Lil recovered first. She nudged me with her elbow and said with a cackle of delight, "I think you guys should make some more of those brownies, 'cause that boy looks hungry.
β
β
Darynda Jones (Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet (Charley Davidson, #4))
β
Like a view of the sea on a summer day on the most perfect winding road taken in from your car seat window A thing perfect and ready to become a part of the texture of the fabric of Something more ethereal like Mount Olympus where Zeus and Athena and the rest of the immortals play
β
β
Lana Del Rey (Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass)
β
I believe in the person I want to become.
I believe in the freedom of the open road.
And my motto is the same as ever:
"I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride."
Who are you?
Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?
Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?
I have. I am fucking crazy.
But I am free.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
He didnβt say a word and she didnβt ask anything else, just ran her fingers through his hair until his breathing began to calm. Without letting go of her or even pulling away to face her he finally whispered against her ear, βPlease donβt leave me. I promise Iβll try harder.β Slowly he pulled away and their eyes met. βIβm nothing without you, Izzy.
β
β
Elizabeth Reyes (Romero (The Moreno Brothers, #4))
β
[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.
β
β
Thornton Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Rey)
β
There is a fine line between love and hate, or haven't you heard? Sometimes it's hard to decipher exactly which emotion is strongest."
I raised my chin. "I don't love you either."
He lowered his head and watched me from underneath his dark lashes. "Are you certain? Because the emotion pouring out of you every time I'm near you is certainly not disinterest."
"That doesn't mean it's love."
"It could be, I promise you. Take off that sweater and give me ten minutes, and you'll believe beyond a shadow of a doubt you're in love.
β
β
Darynda Jones (Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet (Charley Davidson, #4))
β
With a deep regret, I wiggled out from under him despite his sleepy protests and grabbed articles of clothing as I tiptoed to his door. What amazing willpower I had. What fantastic self-control. I'd come over for one reason, and everything but that reason seemed to be resolved. When I reached the door, I saw what looked like another note. But this was his door, not mine. I peeled it off, then angled it until I could read it by the light of the fire.
Is that all you've got?
With a smile spreading slowly across my face, I dropped everything I'd just picked up and went back for more.
β
β
Darynda Jones (Fifth Grave Past the Light (Charley Davidson, #5))
β
I was in the winter of my life- and the men I met along the road were my only summer. At night I fell sleep with vision of myself dancing and laughing and crying with them. Three year down the line of being on an endless world tour and memories of them were the only things that sustained me, and my only real happy times. I was a singer, not very popular one, who once has dreams of becoming a beautiful poet- but upon an unfortunate series of events saw those dreams dashed and divided like million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again- sparkling and broken. But I really didnβt mind because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it to know what true freedom is.
When the people I used to know found out what I had been doing, how I had been living- they asked me why. But thereβs no use in talking to people who have a home, they have no idea what its like to seek safety in other people, for home to be wherever you lied you head.
I was always an unusual girl, my mother told me that I had a chameleon soul. No moral compass pointing me due north, no fixed personality. Just an inner indecisiviness that was as wide as wavering as the ocean. And if I said that I didnβt plan for it to turn out this way Iβd be lying- because I was born to be the other woman. I belonged to no one- who belonged to everyone, who had nothing- who wanted everything with a fire for every experience and an obssesion for freedom that terrified me to the point that I couldnβt even talk about- and pushed me to a nomadic point of madness that both dazzled and dizzied me.
Every night I used to pray that Iβd find my people- and finally I did- on the open road. We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.
LIVE FAST. DIE YOUNG. BE WILD. AND HAVE FUN.
I believe in the country America used to be. I belive in the person I want to become, I believe in the freedom of the open road. And my motto is the same as ever- *I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when Iβm at war with myself- I Ride. I Just Ride.*
Who are you? Are you in touch with all your darkest fantasies?
Have you created a life for yourself where youβre free to experience them?
I Have.
I Am Fucking Crazy. But I Am Free.
β
β
Lana Del Rey
β
Blue jeans, white shirt
Walked into the room you know you made my eyes burn
It was like, James Dean, for sure
You're so fresh to death and sick as ca-cancer
You were sorta punk rock, I grew up on hip hop
But you fit me better than my favourite sweater, and I know
That love is mean, and love hurts
But I still remember that day we met in december, oh baby!
I will love you 'til the end of time
I would wait a million years
Promise you'll remember that you're mine
Baby can you see through the tears
Love you more
Than those bitches before
Say you'll remember, oh baby, say you'll remember
I will love you 'til the end of time
Big dreams, gangster
Said you had to leave to start your life over
I was like, βNo please, stay here,
We don't need no money we can make it all work,β
But he headed out on sunday, said he'd come home monday
I stayed up waitin', anticipatin', and pacin'
But he was chasing paper
"Caught up in the game" β that was the last I heard
I will love you 'til the end of time
I would wait a million years
Promise you'll remember that you're mine
Baby can you see through the tears
Love you more
Than those bitches before
Say you'll remember, oh baby, say you'll remember
I will love you 'til the end of time
You went out every night
And baby that's alright
I told you that no matter what you did I'd be by your side
Cause Imma ride or die
Whether you fail or fly
Well shit at least you tried.
But when you walked out that door, a piece of me died
I told you I wanted more-but that's not what I had in mind
I just want it like before
We were dancing all night
Then they took you away-stole you out of my life
You just need to remember....
I will love you 'til the end of time
I would wait a million years
Promise you'll remember that you're mine
Baby can you see through the tears
Love you more
Than those bitches before
Say you'll remember, oh baby, say you'll remember
I will love you 'til the end of time
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I once had dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events saw those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken.
But I didn't really mind because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.
When the people I used to know found out what I had been doing, how I'd been living, they asked me why - but there's no use in talking to people who have home.
They have no idea what it's like to seek safety in other people - for home to be wherever you lay your head.
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And I remember when I met him.
It was so clear that he was the only one for me.
We both knew right away.
And as the years went on things got more difficult,
We were faced with more challenges.
I begged him to stay,
Tried to remember what we had in the beginning.
He was charismatic, magnetic, electric, and everybody knew him
When he walked in every woman's head turned.
Everyone stood up to talk to him.
He was like this hybrid, this mix of a man who couldn't contain himself.
I always got the sense that he became torn between being a good person and missing out on all of the opportunities that life could offer a man as magnificent as him.
And in that way, I understood him.
And I loved him, I loved him, I loved him, I loved him.
And I still love him, I love him.
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In the land of Gods and Monsters
I was an Angel
Living in the garden of evil
Screwed up, scared, doing anything that I needed
Shining like a fiery beacon
You got that medicine I need
Fame, Liquor, Love give it to me slowly
Put your hands on my waist, do it softly
Me and God, we don't get along so now I sing
No one's gonna take my soul away
I'm living like Jim Morrison
Headed towards a fucked up holiday
Motel sprees sprees and I'm singing
'Fuck yeah give it to me this is heaven, what I truly
Want'
It's innocence lost
Innocence lost
In the land of Gods and Monsters
I was an Angel
Looking to get fucked hard
Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer
Life imitates art
You got that medicine I need
Dope, shoot it up, straight to the heart please
I don't really wanna know what's good for me
God's dead, I said 'baby that's alright with me'
No one's gonna take my soul away
I'm living like Jim Morrison
Headed towards a fucked up holiday
Motel sprees sprees and I'm singing
'Fuck yeah give it to me this is heaven, what I truly
Want'
It's innocence lost
Innocence lost
When you talk it's like a movie and you're making me
Crazy -
Cause life imitates art
If I get a little prettier can I be your baby?
You tell me, "life isn't that hard"
No one's gonna take my soul away
I'm living like Jim Morrison
Headed towards a fucked up holiday
Motel sprees sprees and I'm singing
'Fuck yeah give it to me this is heaven, what I truly
Want'
It's innocence lost
Innocence lost
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Black Beauty"
I paint my nails black,
I dye my hair a darker shade of brown
'Cause you like your women Spanish, dark, strong and proud
I paint the sky black
You said if you could have your way
You'd make a night time of today
So it'd suit the mood of your soul
Oh, what can I do?
Nothing, my sparrow blue
Oh, what can I do?
Life is beautiful but you don't have a clue
Sun and ocean blue
Their magnificence, it don't make sense to you
Black beauty, oh oh oh
Black beauty, oh oh oh
I paint the house black
My wedding dress black leather too
You have no room for light
Love is lost on you
I keep my lips red
The same like cherries in the spring
Darling, you can't let everything
Seem so dark blue
Oh, what can I do?
To turn you on or get through to you
Oh, what can I do?
Life is beautiful but you don't have a clue
Sun and ocean blue
Their magnificence, it don't make sense to you
Black beauty, oh oh oh
Black beauty, oh oh oh
Black beauty, ah ah
Black beauty, ah ah
Black beauty, ah ah ah ah
Black beauty, baby
Black beauty, baby
Oh, what can I do?
Life is beautiful but you don't have a clue
Sun and ocean blue
Their magnificence, it don't make sense to you
Black beauty, oh oh oh
Black beauty, oh oh oh
Black beauty, oh oh oh
Black beauty, oh oh oh
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Old Money
Blue hydrangea, cold cash, divine,
Cashmere, cologne and white sunshine.
Red racing cars, Sunset and Vine,
The kids were young and pretty.
Where have you been? Where did you go?
Those summer nights seem long ago,
And so is the girl you used to call,
The Queen of New York City.
But if you send for me you know I'll come,
And if you call for me you know I'll run.
I'll run to you, I'll run to you, I'll run, run, run.
I'll come to you, I'll come to you, I'll come, come, come.
Ohh, Ohh.
Ahh, Ahh.
The power of youth is on my mind,
Sunsets, small town, I'm out of time.
Will you still love me when I shine,
From words but not from beauty?
My father's love was always strong,
My mother's glamour lives on and on,
Yet still inside I felt alone,
For reasons unknown to me.
But if you send for me you know I'll come,
And if you call for me you know I'll run.
I'll run to you, I'll run to you, I'll run, run, run.
I'll come to you, I'll come to you, I'll come, come, come.
Ohh, Ohh.
Ahh, Ahh.
And if you call, I'll run, run, run,
If you change your mind, I'll come, come, come.
Ohh, Ohh.
Ahh, Ahh.
Blue hydrangea, cold cash, divine,
Cashmere, cologne and hot sunshine.
Red racing cars, Sunset and Vine,
And we were young and pretty.
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Off To The Races"
My old man is a bad man but
I can't deny the way he holds my hand
And he grabs me, he has me by my heart
He doesn't mind I have a Las Vegas past
He doesn't mind I have an LA crass way about me
He loves me with every beat of his cocaine heart
Swimming pool glimmering darling
White bikini off with my red nail polish
Watch me in the swimming pool bright blue ripples you
Sitting sipping on your black Cristal
Oh yeah
Light of my life, fire of my loins
Be a good baby, do what I want
Light of my life, fire of my loins
Give me them gold coins, gimme them coins
And I'm off to the races, cases of Bacardi chasers
Chasing me all over town
Cause he knows I'm wasted, facing
Time again at Riker's Island and I won't get out
Because I'm crazy, baby I need you to come here and save me
I'm your little scarlet, starlet singing in the garden
Kiss me on my open mouth
Ready for you
My old man is a tough man but
He's got a soul as sweet as blood red jam
And he shows me, he knows me
Every inch of my tar black soul
He doesn't mind I have a flat broke down life
In fact he says he thinks it's why he might like about me
Admires me, the way I roll like a Rolling Stone
Likes to watch me in the glass room bathroom, Chateau Marmont
Slippin' on my red dress, puttin' on my makeup
Glass film, perfume, cognac, lilac
Fumes, says it feels like heaven to him
Light of his life, fire of his loins
Keep me forever, tell me you own me
Light of your life, fire of your loins
Tell me you own me, gimme them coins
And I'm off to the races, cases of Bacardi chasers
Chasing me all over town
Cause he knows I'm wasted, facing
Time again at Riker's Island and I won't get out
Because I'm crazy, baby I need you to come here and save me
I'm your little scarlet, starlet singing in the garden
Kiss me on my open mouth
Now I'm off to the races, laces
Leather on my waist is tight and I am fallin' down
I can see your face is shameless, Cipriani's basement
Love you but I'm going down
God I'm so crazy, baby, I'm sorry that I'm misbehaving
I'm your little harlot, starlet, Queen of Coney Island
Raising hell all over town
Sorry 'bout it
My old man is a thief and I'm gonna stay and pray with him 'til the end
But I trust in the decision of the Lord to watch over us
Take him when he may, if he may
I'm not afraid to say that I'd die without him
Who else is gonna put up with me this way?
I need you, I breathe you, I never leave you
They would rue the day I was alone without you
You're lying with your gold chain on, cigar hanging from your lips
I said "Hon' you never looked so beautiful as you do now, my man."
And we're off to the races, places
Ready, set the gate is down and now we're goin' in
To Las Vegas chaos, Casino Oasis, honey it is time to spin
Boy you're so crazy, baby, I love you forever not maybe
You are my one true love, you are my one true love
You are my one true love
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