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THE BLACK PARADE : Sentence Starters

Sentence starters from the My Chemical Romance album The Black Parade. Change as needed.

THE END.

"Come one, come all, to this tragic affair."

"You might wake up and notice you're someone you're not."

"I'd encourage your smiles, I'll expect you won't cry."

"When I grow up, I want to be nothing at all."

"Save me!"

"Get me the hell out of here!"

"Too young to die, my dear."

"If you can hear me, just walk away."

"You can't save me!"

DEAD!

"Did you get what you deserve?"

"I'll be here waiting, babe."

"Have you heard the news that you're dead?"

"No one ever had much nice to say."

"I think they never liked you anyway."

"Wouldn't it be great if we were dead?"

"Is this the most the both of you can give?"

"If life ain't just a joke, then why are we laughing?"

THIS IS HOW I DISAPPEAR.

"Drain all the blood and give the kids a show."

"There's things that I have done you never should ever know."

"Without you is how I disappear."

"Tell me if it's so- that all the good girls go to heaven."

"Can you hear me cry out to you?"

"I'm just a ghost."

"I can't hurt you anymore."

"You wanna see how far down I can sink?"

THE SHARPEST LIVES.

"If I crash on the couch can I sleep in my clothes?"

"I'm drunk, I suppose."

"If it looks like I'm laughing, I'm really just asking to leave."

"You're the one that I need, I'm the one that you loathe."

"You can watch me corrode like a beast in repose."

"I've really been on a bender and it shows."

"Why don't you blow me a kiss before she goes?"

"Give me a shot to remember!"

"You can take all the pain away from me."

"Your kiss, and I will surrender."

"The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead."

"Drop the dagger and lather the blood on your hands."

WELCOME TO THE BLACK PARADE.

"Would you be the savior of the broken, the beaten, and the damned?"

"Will you defeat them, your demons? And all the non-believers, the plans that they have made?"

"One day, I'll leave you- a phantom."

"Sometimes I get the feeling she's watching over me."

"Though you're dead and gone believe me, your memory will carry on."

"We'll carry on."

"Your misery and hate will kill us all."

"Take a look at me, 'cause I could not care at all!"

"Do or die, you'll never make me!"

"The world will never take my heart."

"Go and try, you'll never break me!"

"I won't explain or say I'm sorry."

"I'm unashamed, I'm gonna show my scar."

"I'm just a man, I'm not a hero."

I DON'T LOVE YOU.

"Don't ever think I'll make you try to stay."

"I'll be off to find another way."

"You're still a good-for-nothing."

"Better get out while you can."

"I don't love you like I did yesterday."

"Sometimes I cry so hard from pleading."

"So sick and tired of all the needless beating."

"Baby, when they knock you down and out, it's where you ought to stay."

"Another dollar's just another blow."

"Fix your eyes and get up."

"When you go, would you have the guts to say 'I don't love you like I loved you yesterday'?"

HOUSE OF WOLVES.

"I know a thing about contrition because I've got enough to spare."

"You haven't got a prayer."

"Come on, sing the praise."

"We've got innocence for days."

"Well, I think I'm gonna burn in hell!"

"Tell me I'm an angel."

"Tell me I'm a bad man, kick me like a stray."

"It's a compliment, I swear."

"You better run like the devil, 'cause they're never gonna leave you alone."

"You better hide up in the alley, 'cause they're never gonna find you a home."

"I've been a bad motherfucker."

"Tell me I'm a bad, bad, bad, bad man."

CANCER.

"Turn away..."

"If you could, get me a drink of water."

"Bury me in all my favorite colors."

"I will not kiss you, 'cause the hardest part of this is leaving you."

"Turn away, 'cause I'm awful just to see."

"Know that I will never marry."

"We're counting down the days to go."

"It just ain't living."

"If you say goodbye today, I'd ask you to be true."

"The hardest part of this is leaving you."

MAMA.

"We all go to hell."

"We're all gonna die."

"Stop asking me questions, I'd hate to see you cry."

"When we go, don't blame us."

"We'll never let you go."

"When you go, don't return to me, my love."

"We're all full of lies."

"We're meant for the flies."

"Right now, they're building a coffin your size."

"You should've raised a baby girl, I should have been a better son!"

"If you could coddle the infection, they can amputate at once."

"You ain't no son of mine."

"For what you've done, they're gonna find a place for you."

"Just you mind your manners when you go."

"It's really quite pleasant, except for the smell."

"If you could call me a sweetheart, I'd maybe then sing you a song."

"There's shit that I've done with this fuck of a gun."

"You would cry out your eyes all along."

"We're damned after all."

"Raise your glass high, for tomorrow, we die!"

SLEEP.

"They're- they're these terrors. And it feels as if somebody was gripping my throat, squeezing."

"Don't you breathe for me."

"I'm undeserving of your sympathy."

"There ain't no way that I'm sorry for what I did."

"How could you cry for me? 'Cause I don't feel bad about it."

"Shut your eyes, kiss me goodbye, and sleep."

"The hardest part is letting go of your dreams."

"A drink, for the horror that I'm in."

"Three cheers for tyranny, unapologetic apathy."

"There ain't no way that I'm coming back again."

"The hardest part's the awful things that I've seen."

"Sometimes, I see flames, and sometimes I see people that I love dying."

"Just sleep."

"I can't ever wake up."

TEENAGERS.

"They're gonna clean up your looks, with all the lies in the books."

"The drugs never work."

"They got methods of keeping you clean."

"They're gonna rip up your heads, your aspirations to shreds."

"Another cog in the murder machine."

"Teenagers scare the living shit out of me!"

"They could care less as long as someone will bleed."

"Maybe they'll leave you alone, but not me."

"You're never gonna fit in much, kid."

"We'll make them pay for the things that they did."

DISENCHANTED.

"I hate the ending myself, but it started with an alright scene."

"It was the roar of the crowd that gave me heartache to sing."

"It was a lie when they smiled, and said you won't feel a thing."

"If I'm so wrong, how can you listen all night long?"

"Will it matter after I'm gone?"

"You never learned a goddamn thing."

"You're just a sad song with nothing to say."

"If you think that I'm wrong, this never meant nothing to you."

"I spent my high school career spit on and shoved to agree."

"Bring out the old guillotine, we'll show 'em what we all mean."

"Just go, run away."

"Where did you run to?"

"Go find another way."

FAMOUS LAST WORDS.

"I know that I can't make you stay."

"Where's your heart?"

"There's nothing I can say to change that part."

"Is it hard understanding I'm incomplete?"

"A life that's so demanding, I get so weak."

"I am not afraid to keep on living."

"I am not afraid to walk this world alone."

"Honey, if you stay, I'll be forgiven."

"Nothing you can say can stop me going home."

"I'm so weak."

"There bright lights have always blinded me."

BLOOD.

"I can't control myself because I don't know how."

"They love me for it!"

"Honestly, I'll be here for a while."

"Give them blood, blood, gallons of the stuff."

"Give them all that they can drink, and it will never be enough."

"They can fix me proper with a bit of luck."

"The doctors and the nurses, they adore me so."

"It's really quite alarming, 'cause I'm such an awful fuck!"

"I'm the kind of human wreckage that you love."

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AKIRA (1988) : Sentence Starters

Quotes from the 1988 film. Change as needed.

"You wouldn't be so jumpy if you didn't have something to hide!"

"Skirt-chasers will try anything these days."

"The future is not a straight line. It is filled with many crossroads."

"There must be a future that we can choose for ourselves."

"Look what they abandoned in their panic."

"I figured you'd be standing here sobbing like a little baby."

"That's Mr. [name] to you, punk!"

"You've always been a pain in the ass, you know."

"You always treat me like a kid."

"You always show up and start bossing me around, and don't you deny it!"

"This has got to be a trap."

"Don't you understand? It's utterly pointless to fight each other."

"You're all puppets to corrupt politicians and capitalists."

"Let's run away together, just you and me."

"Shut up! Don't order me around!"

"Why do you always have to try and save me?"

"I admit I've been beat before, but I won't always be on the receiving end, you hear me?!"

"It has already begun."

"You called for me, didn't you? And I heard you."

"A fish out of water dies, huh."

"You're forgetting who the real enemy is!"

"It's not my job to believe or disbelieve. It's to act or not to act."

"You've got a bad attitude, pops."

"That's enough, are you trying to kill him?!"

"Oh, right, I forgot you were there."

"I won't be needing you to come rescue me anymore."

"What are you gonna do about it, huh?!"

"Who the hell do you think you're talking to?"

"That's the last time I stick my neck out for you!"

"You'll help anyone as long as they're a girl, right?"

"You're wrong, I have very high standards ya know."

"You could at least tell me your name, you bitch!"

"Something seemed strange the second I saw his face."

"Everyone's been worried about you. They thought you were dead."

"It's like they were messing around inside my head."

"I don't want to go back there again."

"This is yours, isn't it?"

"We've been together our entire lives."

"Are you really going in there alone?"

"Don't they say the only stupid questions are the unasked ones?"

"When you've purified your body and soul, we'll go out for tea."

"He's our friend! If anyone's going to kill him it should be us!"

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MILGRAM TRIAL 2 MVs : Sentence Starters

Lyrics from the second trial music videos of the MILGRAM project! Feel free to change as needed.

"Don't leave me alone."

"I want to be by your side."

"Why was I born this way?"

"I will definitely make you love me again!"

"It wasn't a mistake, I wasn't wrong!"

"Hug me again as you once did."

"Can I be your favorite this time?"

"Am I still innocent?"

"Poor naive little girl? That's so off the mark."

"Don't measure me against your morality."

"Just shut it, would you, you know-it-all?"

"Innocent? I'm so not that."

"Who needs your self-righteous pardon?"

"Where'd you get your half-baked sense of justice?"

"So nauseating... so creepy... Will you please disappear?"

"Is it all okay if I offer penance?"

"The fight's up here!"

"Come up to the ring and face me!"

"Should I succumb and make your wish come true?"

"Full of yourselves, are you?"

"Just one mistake, and I'm out of chances."

"Bless me, please, with one more chance."

"Tears aren't enough, there's no way it's going to end."

"There's no solace for my heart."

"Are both sides losers?"

"I told you, I'm the queen."

"Don't you think it's wonderful to control them with my gentle sting?"

"If you betray me out of jealousy, you know what's gonna happen to you."

"It's not my fault. I am absolutely right."

"I am innocent, as everyone desires."

"Sorry for hurting you, but I didn't mean it."

"Don't hate me."

"I can't take it anymore. I surrender."

"Now I see, the world is cruel and merciless."

"See? I'm indispensable."

"I yearn to be found guilty."

"In that case, give me the chance to make amends."

"I want to be innocent... I want to live!"

"I don't yet know the correct answer, but there are lives that need saving."

"I can't even breathe anymore."

"It's okay for everyone else, but not for me."

"If you won't tell me, I can't be me."

"This can't go on, something's got to give."

"I even love saying the words I love you!"

"My emotions are out of control!"

"That's inconvenient? I don't care!"

"Tell me, why won't you just accept me?"

"I don't need anyone else, as long as I have you."

"I could do anything as long as it made you smile."

"If I could see you again, I wonder, what would I say and how?"

"I know I have no right, crossed and covered in sin."

"Why can't I just do it right?"

"Lie, until it gets better."

"Since when have I ignored my feelings?"

"It's better to be a let down than to be let down yourself."

"So it's wrong? Oh, shove that!"

"It's for the sake of true love- who wouldn't lie for that?"

"Phew, oh wow, I'm drunk."

"Hey, if I said I like-liked you, what would you do?"

"I gotta keep it inside and act."

"I realize the futility, but I still can't help but dream."

"I can't stop, I can't be normal."

"This feeling can't be gratified."

"Let's take a breather."

"To be caressed by you, that would be perfection."

"I want to be loved, just like a cat."

"We must not give in to them, they are the ones that should be judged."

"With pure, unsullied body and soul, let us preach all that is true and right!"

"That makes them doubtlessly, clearly, absolutely, unequivocally, beyond any doubt, GUILTY!"

"Eyes corrupted must be crushed."

"So nary a sound can be uttered again, I'll crush your throat too."

"It's now your turn to give that hopeless apology."

"Here and now, it's my turn to tear you apart."

"I'll give back the judgment that you gave to me."

"You're sorry? I don't care!"

"Please go ahead and die already."

"Remember my cries, my repents, my apologies?"

"I've got you, leave it to me!"

"Doesn't matter if you wished for it or not, you can't get rid of me now."

"Just the two of us- relieved, aren't you?"

"I'll protect us."

"All I did was dream, and that's what you found guilty?"

"Hey now, I saved you, right? So why the hell are you crying?"

"Hoist me up as your savior."

"You're already broken."

"I'll take it all on."

"Some days are hard, but... I'm doing alright, don't worry."

"Come to know me as an honest man."

"Hey, I just wanted to save you, so why did it come to this?"

"If only I were never born, if only..."

"I'm so sorry."

"Isn't it so ridiculous?"

"Bringing back the cocky hero again? How embarrassing."

"Who don't we want? Give me the verdicts."

"Don't you dare stop now!"

"I want a reason for judgment and execution."

"Give me the next target."

"Sympathy is useless."

"Hate evil as the evil that it is."

"Come on, rely on me."

"They're still here, it grates me."

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All I did was dream... and that's what you found guilty?

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THE LAND IS INHOSPITABLE AND SO ARE WE : Sentence Starters

Lyrics from Mitski's seventh album. Change as needed.

"As I got older, I learned I'm a drinker."

"Sometimes a drink feels like family."

"Did you go and make promises you can't keep?"

"Well, when you break them, they break you right back."

"Amateur mistake. You can take it from me."

"I try to remember the wrath of the devil was also given him by God."

"Mosquitos can enjoy me."

"I can't go inside."

"I have a hope, though she's blind with no name."

"Sometimes I think it would be easier without her."

"I know nothing can hurt me when I see her sleeping face."

"I bend like a willow thinking of you."

"The dark awaits us all around the corner."

"Can we stay for a while and listen for heaven?"

"I don't like my mind."

"I don't like being left alone in a room, with all its opinions about the things that I've done."

"There's another memory that gets stuck inside the walls of my skull, waiting for its turn to talk."

"Look around, listen close, hear it fall from above."

"I want someone to take this soul."

"I can't bear to keep it, I'd give it just to give."

"All I will take are the consequences."

"Will somebody take this soul?"

"Nothing speaks to you in the night."

"Now I'm taken, the night has me."

"You won't hear me singing."

"You're a sage without me."

"Your pain is erased, but you'll never be free."

"If I break, could I go on break?"

"I'll be back in my room, writing speeches in my head."

"Tell me if I could send up my heart to you?"

"Nothing in the world belongs to me."

"My baby, here on earth, showed me what my heart was worth."

"Nothing in the world is mine for free."

"My love is mine, all mine."

"I love mine, mine, mine."

"It looks like dust settled on the world."

"I was hiding, or forgotten, the only one left."

"Now the world is mine alone."

"You're my best friend."

"Now I've no one to tell how I lost my best friend."

"It looks like we've been left in the attic."

"You're not here to see, it's just witness-less me."

"Remember when we met? We acted like two fools."

"We were so glad to have found it."

"That love is like a star- it's gone, we just see it shining."

"I'll keep a leftover light burning, so you can keep looking up."

"Isn't that worth holding on?"

"I'd always been alone 'til you taught me to live for somebody."

"I am yours, no matter."

"You believe me like a God. I'll destroy you like I am."

"I'm sorry I'm the one you love."

"When you leave me, I should die."

"I deserve it, don't I?"

"One day you'll figure me out."

"I'll meet judgment by the hounds."

"People always gave me love."

"Others were never to blame after all."

"You believe me like a God. I'll betray you like a man."

"I love me after you."

"Let the darkness see me."

"Streets are mine, the night is mine."

"I'm king of all the land."

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I love you like a rotten dog, I love you like my canines are falling out of my gums, Like a monster, like a beast Like something not worth loving back.

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MILGRAM : John Doe (Sentence Starters)

Sentences taken from Mikoto's first audio drama. Translation by onigiriico. Feel free to change as needed!

"What am I doing in a place like this...?"

"Isn't it basic manners to knock before coming in?"

"Shut up. Don't talk back."

"You're always so bossy!"

"I already told you, I'm not hiding anything."

"Is this a reality TV show? One of those monitoring things?"

"You really still believe that this is some kind of joke?"

"Why are you grinning like that when someone's just having an honest conversation with you?"

"It's not an act! Seriously! I seriously don't know! See? Look into my eyes! See?!"

"Don't touch me like we're friends."

"So? I'm telling the truth, right?"

"My judgement of you doesn't rely on naive ideas like that."

"Even you don't actually know what I've done, right?"

"Aren't you getting ahead of yourself, labeling me a murderer like that?"

"Why are you blindly believing that?"

"I was just living an ordinary, everyday life..."

"Of course I would want to think of this as a joke! Wouldn't anyone?!"

"If I get fired, you'll have to take responsibility for that."

"Don't get cocky."

"Everyone here, other than you, has committed murder."

"You'd better not say that to her face, that'd be trouble."

"First impressions can be deceiving."

"They've all, without a doubt, been involved in someone's death."

"You've forgotten that you've killed someone."

"To escape psychological stress, humans may repress certain memories as a coping mechanism."

"Stop saying all those awful things!"

"The threads of your memory might untangle themselves eventually."

"Fuck... Fuck...! Stop pissing me off!"

"I'm gonna fucking kill you, you piece of shit!"

"Serves you fucking right!"

"You're no more than an unimportant brat!"

"Hahahaha! You prefer it when it hurts more, huh?"

"Don't you fucking mess around with me...!"

"If I hadn't intervened, you would be dead."

"You're covered in bruises! What happened?"

"You're acting so clueless it makes my blood boil..."

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You know, I'd always been alone 'til you taught me to live for somebody.

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Mother, Eat me and give birth to me again. This time around I'll make you proud.

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Father, into your hands I commend my spirit! Father, into your hands -- Why have you forsaken me? In your eyes forsaken me, In your thoughts forsaken me, In your heart forsaken me!

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ALL-KNOWING & ALL-AGONY ( sentence starters )

Lyrics taken from various translations of the MILGRAM project original song. Change as needed.

"Don't leave me alone!"

"I just want to be by your side."

"Why was I born like this?"

"Why was I born to be me?"

"Why does it hurt so much?"

"You kept calling me hopeless- you never called me by my name."

"You're always comparing me to someone else."

"You're kind to everyone but me."

"You were always generous, except towards me."

"I'll definitely make you love me again."

"I've got to get her to turn around..."

"Hug me like you used to."

"I just wanted to be your good boy."

"I don't want to be a disappointment to you."

"Why am I crying again?"

"Who's responsible for these tears?"

"If I could be reborn with the press of a button, could I be your favorite next time?"

"Don't wipe me out!"

"I don't want to die, I don't want to die!"

"It's better to give by stealing from others."

"I will keep on killing to be a good boy."

"It's better to live hoping your dreams won't eat you alive."

"I can't stop, I cant stop-!"

"It's the only way!"

"Am I still innocent?"

"Who could forgive me?"

"Look, I'm amazing, aren't I?"

"There, there, my good boy!"

"I promise to make my dream come true."

"A faraway dream that spreads its wings wide- I can make it a reality."

"I wasn't wrong, I wasn't wrong!"

"Please don't say I'm a loser."

"Don't be fooled into thinking that I'm a failure!"

"This isn't a mistake, it's not a mistake!"

"I want to be your favorite next time."

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MILGRAM : TRIAL 1 MV Sentence Starters

Lyrics pulled from various songs from trial 1 of the MILGRAM project. Translations may vary, change as needed.

"If you say you're innocent, you're complicit and weak."

"The pain's still there, after all this time."

"Can you really judge them?"

"Giving and taking, this is how to be in love."

"There is no righteousness in broken promises."

"Why are you drifting away from me?"

"Why do you say it's my fault?"

"If only I could do what anyone else could do..."

"I want to be a pitied and loved weakling."

"Please notice me. Someone, please, notice me."

"It's fine, it's all my fault, right?"

"I'm always repeating yesterday."

"How many more times do I have to do this to become human?"

"I've become a victim."

"My life started in the wrong spot."

"I'm still not used to feeling this way."

"Why are you here? You annoy me a little."

"I want to be with you as many times as I can."

"Am I bad? Please don't answer."

"The lies are endless."

"Are we over? Please don't answer."

"Don't act like you have no idea!"

"We won't forgive you."

"If you sin, you need to do more than atone!"

"It's karma, dude!"

"What I want to hear is the scream deep inside you."

"I won't stop until you say sorry!"

"We're gonna punish you 'til you cry!"

"Let's start hunting down the liars."

"You can't escape. How do you like the taste of punishment?"

"I found out how much I'm not needed..."

"Why won't you stop hurting me?"

"I don't want tomorrow to come. I want to forget yesterday."

"If you're going to make me the villain, it's okay to ignore me."

"I'm just kidding, please forget I said that."

"Please forgive me."

"That's why I want this to end."

"There's no meaning in it- yes and no, it doesn't matter."

"Put your regret on display."

"Ethics is a delusion."

"Do you really think you know what love is?"

"I can't help feeling like there's something missing."

"I was happy to get hurt."

"I suck at pretending to smile."

"The curse of reuniting with you puts a dagger in my heart."

"I would rather be by your side."

"This distance in our relationship is misleading me."

"Is this what happiness is?"

"Feelings shrouded in lies will float away and disappear."

"I understand that this love is out of bounds, so nothing has to change."

"All these memories of you- if only I could erase them."

"I'm just a coward."

"This pinky promise hurts to break."

"It's not scary at all, because it's love."

"Am I worthy?"

"is it okay to spoil myself?"

"A pinky promise is a pinky promise!"

"I swear, I'm going to be a good girl now!"

"Is it okay to be weak sometimes?"

"Will you laugh with me and forgive me?"

"If I could go back, I'd play dead."

"How long will this dream go on?"

"You don't have to keep it in and hide it away."

"Why am I here? This must be a mistake."

"Take a good look until you find me."

"The truth will come to reveal itself."

"Is this selfish? This is too much, isn't it?"

"Maybe it's okay to try to keep on living."

"It's like what's wrong isn't wrong."

"I'm already the fake one."

"I'm probably not to blame."

"I'm probably just having a bad dream- I need to wake up soon."

"Please let me out of here!"

"Please tell me that it's a mistake, that it's a lie."

"I'll forgive you if you tell me now."

"Let's end this!"

"I can't forgive evil for hurting the weak."

"I'll gouge you out with my fangs."

"I hate all the evils in this world."

"I feel like I'm about to break."

"I'll show you the pain you caused."

"Whose fault is it? This is getting ridiculous."

"I want to be drowning in the knowledge that I am right."

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you're nothing without me! without me, you'd just disappear right into thin air, and no one would care, or notice you ever were here!

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no one would doubt me: without me, you're nothing at all!

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a show-off, a blowhard! you're equal parts hot air and gall!

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you're nothing without me! a no-one who'd go undefined! you wouldn't exist, you'd never be missed!

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i'm everything you always wanted to be - let's deal with the issue, you wish you were me!