Lyric Prompt List - The First Aid Kit Version

Okay, these aren’t that much fluffier, but they already remind me of characters I write for in some cases, so…

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1.  Now the pale morning sings of forgotten things (The Lion’s Roar)

2.  But don’t you come here and say I didn’t warn you
About the way your world can alter
And oh how you try to command it all still
Every single time it all shifts one way or the other  (The Lion’s Roar)

3.  And I’m a goddamn coward, but then again so are you  (The Lion’s Roar)

4.  Well I guess sometimes I wish you were a little more predictable
That I could read you just like a book
For now I can only guess what’s coming next
By examining your timid smile  (The Lion’s Roar)

5.  I’d sit there and look at the deserted lakes and I’d sing
And every once in a while I’d sing a song for you
That would rise above the mountains and the stars and the sea
And if I wanted it to it would lead you back to me  (The Lion’s Roar)

6.    Stockholm’s cold but I’ve been told
I was born to endure this kind of weather
When it’s you I find like a ghost in my mind
I am defeated and I gladly wear the crown  (Emmylou)

7.    But I’m holding back, that’s the strength that I lack   (Emmylou)

8.  And yes I might have lied to you
You wouldn’t benefit from knowing of the truth
I was frightened but I held fast
I need you now at long last  (Emmylou)

9.    Why you ask yourself, why you’re so afraid
Why you hesitate when someone asks your name
They’ll come too close if you tell them the truth
Who’s to say they want something from you (Blue)

10.  But you’re just a shell of
Your former you
That stranger in the mirror
Oh, that’s you (Blue)

11.  Then you just decided, love wasn’t for you
And every year since then
Has proved it to be true (Blue)

12.   And you said, “Don’t give me nothing
you don’t want to lose”
I said, “Darling, I’ll give you everything I got
if I want I’m to choose” (To a Poet)

13.  Now I miss you more than I can take
and I will surely break
And every morning that I wake
god, it’s the same
There’s nothing more to it,
I just get through it  (To a Poet)

14.    But Frank put it best when he said
“You can’t plan on the heart”
Those words keep me on my feet
when I think I might just fall apart  (To a Poet)

15.  And so I ask where are you now
just when I needed you (To a Poet)

16.  We play the game with skillful hands
And so I asked for your demands
Give me your love, give me your thumb
And he traced us back to where we begun (I Found a Way)

17.  So the morning came
And swept the night away  (I Found a Way)

18.  I’ll follow you
Where you go
Yes, I’ll be there
Just so you know
I need your condolence
And your trust
But I won’t ask
Won’t ask for much  (I Found a Way)

19.  There’s a heavy load upon our backs
Of things we carry from the past
My guilt-filled mind, it tried to run
But it traced us back to where we begun  (I Found a Way)

20.  Will you look at me?
Take a good look at me and tell me who
It is that I am. (Dance to Another Tune)

21.  It’s not the world that’s spinning as me
I go from nowhere to nowhere searching for the key.
There’s nothing new under the sun,
All that will happen has already begun.  (Dance to Another Tune)

22.  Will you savor this in your mind,
This old feeling when you’re left behind?
Will you hold to this as true
Or will you dance to another tune?  (Dance to Another Tune)

23.  Shadows with that same look upon their faces,
A child will die that nobody embraces,
Everything gets tiresome, everything grows old,
With each secret revealed, there’s another to be told.  (Dance to Another Tune)

24.  I said, “I don’t know much and I’m not lying
But I think you just have to keep on trying” (New Year’s Eve)

25.  And I know I am naive, but if anything
That’s what’s going to save me  (New Year’s Eve)

26.  Yet I am still afraid but if anything
That’s what’s going to save me  (New Year’s Eve)

27.  Now I have a lot to learn and I’m starting tonight
Got to stop looking at things like they’re black and they’re white
Got to write more songs of a little more, treat my friends better
Got to stop worrying about everything to the letter
And sometimes when it’s too hard to get on
It just might be you that I’ll call upon  (New Year’s Eve)

28.  Tell me something real
Tell me something true
I just want to feel there’s something left that I can do (King of the World)

29.   I don’t want to wait anymore I’m tired of looking for answers
Take me some place where there’s music and there’s laughter (Silver Lining)

30.  I hear a voice calling
Calling out for me
These shackles I’ve made in an attempt to be free
Be it for reason, be it for love
I won’t take the easy road (Silver Lining)

31.  I’ve woken up in a hotel room, my worries as big as the moon
Having no idea who or what or where I am
Something good comes with the bad
A song’s never just sad
There’s hope, there’s a silver lining
Show me my silver lining (Silver Lining)

32.   What if our hard work ends in despair?
What if the road won’t take me there?
Oh, I wish, for once, we could stay gold (Stay Gold)

33.  What if to love and be loved’s not enough?
What if I fall and can’t bear to get up?
Oh, I wish, for once, we could stay gold  (Stay Gold)

34.  But there is only forward, no other way
Tomorrow was your hope at the end of the day
And gold turns gray  (Stay Gold)

35.  All of my dreams, they fall and form a bridge
Of memories where I can get back to you  (Stay Gold)

36.  I’m never looking for you
You find me all the same  (Cedar Lane)

37.  I lay awake at night envisioning
A trace from the past
This heavy heart of mine, it never fails
To bring me right back (Cedar Lane)

38.  I still remember how you used to say
“Something good will come out of this” (Cedar Lane)

39.  I fell in love with you
Long before I knew
What it meant to give everything up (A Long Time Ago)

40.  I was a rolling stone
Rolling my way along
Till you came
And made sense out of everything  (A Long Time Ago)

41.  But you couldn’t wait
I couldn’t promise you anything
If it was all a mistake
Then I guess we’re both to blame  (A Long Time Ago)

42.  I could’ve been
So many things
But it would never be enough for you  (A Long Time Ago)

43.  I was the one
You counted on
But I was never the one for you
Now I know
I lost you a long time ago  (A Long Time Ago)

44.  Grab a hold of what I’ve got
Regretting all that I am not
I couldn’t be the one who’d stand by your side  (A Long Time Ago)

45.   I hold no grudges
I come bearing forgiveness
Only love
Only love
Even if it’s not enough (A Long Time Ago) 

46.  Why do I do this to myself
Every time I know the way it ends
Before it’s even begun
I am the only one at the finish line  (Fireworks)

47.    Wherever I went, I always knew, always knew
Until I didn’t know (Fireworks)

48.  But I believe you saw something in me that lives inside you too  (Rebel Heart)

49.  Did I misplace or forsake my love
Now that I gave it to you?  (Rebel Heart)

50.  I don’t know what it is that makes me run
That makes me wanna shatter everything that I’ve done  (Rebel Heart)

51.    Tell me why do I keep trying
To be someone I’ll never be
I keep seeing her in everyone
Everyone but me (Rebel Heart)

52.  But I know you truly saw me
Even if just for a while
Maybe that’s why it hurts now
To leave it all behind  (Rebel Heart)

53.  And sedately I sat there
In my quiet mist of rage
How I wanted to tell you
But I was hushed by my shame (Waltz for Richard)

54.  See no living is that easy
No living is that fair
Of course I was going to lose you
Were you ever even there?  (Waltz for Richard)

55.  And you say; “but I’m still here,
that proves that I love you dear” (Tangerine)

56.  You’ve spent a year staring into a mirror
Another one trying to figure out what you saw
Paid so much attention to what you’re not
You have no idea who you are (Heaven Knows)

57.  Now I can hear every word you’re saying
I’m just not sure I want to know  (Heaven Knows)

58.  You’ve lost yourself in others’
Expectations of you
Now you prefer this caricature before being true
But you’re better than that
You’re so much better than that
I know you better than that  (Heaven Knows)

59.  I am in love and I am lost
But I’d rather be
Broken than empty
Oh, I’d rather be
Shattered than hollow
Oh, I’d rather be
By your side (Shattered and Hollow)

60.  My hands, oh give me your hands
I cannot leave you behind