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61 " words are weapons "
― Florence Welch , Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry
62 " Who's a heretic now? "
63 " Pull down the mountain, drag your cities to the sea...Don’t leave me on this white cliffLet it slide down to the, slide down to the sea "
64 " I have been bleeding out in publicFor so longAnd all I know is, all I have been taughtis that it isBothNot good enoughAnd still, somehowToo much "
65 " I ain’t never scared because I ain’t never been sacred. "
66 " I’m sorry if you couldn’t find me I have been in the woods. I put myself there because I couldn’t be good. I have been running with foxes and hunting with crows. And I have found myself a home where no body goes. "
67 " We are all too young to die. "
68 " And I want you so badly but you could be anyone "
69 " You make a fool of death with your beauty "
70 " The saints can't help me now, the ropes have been unbound "
71 " This poem is not good enough becauseOther women have also written poemsAnd, as everyone knowsThere can only be one womanAbove all the othersWho has clawed and killed to get thereBut maybe she doesn't have childrenSoShe's not good enough eitherAnd she dies on the heapwith the rest of us "
72 " To give yourself over to another bodyThat’s all you want really,To be out of your own and consumed by another.To swim inside the skin of your lover...Not have to breakNot have to thinkBut you can’t live in loveAnd salt waters no drink.We’re dying of thirst so we feast on each other.The sea is still our violent motherThe blood round here pours downLike water, each wave a lambLed to the slaughter.And like children that she just can’t teachWe break, and break, and breakAnd break ourselves upon the beach... "
73 " You wonder why it is that I came homeI figured out where I belonged "
74 " But you came over me like some holy riteAnd although I was burning, you’re the only light "
75 " Regrets collect like old friends...Looking for heaven, found the devil in me...And it’s hard to dance with a devil in your back so shake him off "