#you're not flawed darling youre just a little underrehearsed

[rooftopwreck]

i cannot and will not get a tattoo of my favourite lyrics from The Amazing Devil simply because I would just have to tattoo their entire discography all over me

[malpractice-morale]

when marbles hits it hits like a fucking cement truck

‘You'd swoon, (You'd sigh), working shifts till we cried

Oh, if one more guy calls me darling then I

Swear to you and to God I will murder them all

All the bastards applaud when I show that I'm flawed

You're not flawed darling, you're just a little under-rehearsed’

The absolute hatred for what I can only assume is customer service work?? But also oh dear god yes I am only underrehearsed and not actually the most flawed human being to ever walk the earth™️????? God I love that line so much. Cheers to re-evaluating your flaws. Aghgghggh

[mantra4ia]

Favorite "The Amazing Devil" songs

I mean, apart from actually all of them

1. Drinking Song for the Socially Anxious:

Like a puppet with no strings, untangling my headphones, sometimes it's the only thing that keeps my head in place / my heart is tearing pages from the funny story I rehearsed because I know I don't belong / my kindness is my sword. I do my best to breathe but they're stealing all the air / I'll sing silence and ask my glass of wine for guidance... I'll speak with my eyes, you'll think I'm weird...I don't find this easy like you. / I'm lying on a bed of coats trying desperately to cope, it's just sometimes nice to feel what it's like in someone else's coat. / We're bursting at the seams because the noise is crushing us... In a moment of total rapture, with every strength I have, I ask if you play D&D and your face lights up like you've woken up from this endless f****** nightmare / if God made us in his image then God's a fucking nerd. / Going to go home and dress my cat up like Batman.

2. Wild Blue Yonder:

One last time, love, come and rip my clothes off / Let's wander 'til the fuckers demand an encore.

Flirting (not flirting) at the back of a bookshop - Come and rip off my socks like you're blasting the locks off of a bank vault. This time we're done for.

All the books we drowned, and the candle we lit, we'll use it to burn this whole place to the ground. I'm lost, I'm found in you

Every stone you threw, I stood on to better see the view

let's hide under the covers, we don't know what's out there, could be all our demons darlings (or a robot vampire)

I've got something in my (eye/I) surrender

3. Chords:

Remember today that you are loved...Paint your eyes with sunsets. / I need a drink or two / If your voice begins to crack and you ever feel alone, they might laugh...But know we'll sing your name when you come home. / Remember (please), today you're enough / Gift to us all your blame 'cause we'll be all that you hate about yourself, so you can grow.

4. Pray:

Sweet nothings are screamed, not spoken

God made all man in his image (God made all men) Honey, I'm, I'm no man. I'm what's left when children go to war.

I'll run until I begin to understand what holy men really mean, when they speak of sand and sons and seams, and symphonies and sweat and sex and sin.

5. Fair:

It's what my heart just yearns to say...It's what my rotting bones will sing...Today, I somehow understand the reason I was born. / It's not fair (how much I love you), 'cause you make me laugh when I'm actually really fucking cross at you for something / darling I was born to press my head between your shoulder blades / It's not fair, 'cause you make me weep when I'm just trying to watch The Office with my yogurt / how unreasonable / Christ, you'll be the death of me / And calm throughout his melodrama, she will turn and say... you don't need to pretend to be someone you're not 'cause it's not like I've never heard you fart and snore and for some godforsaken reason I'm still here, love. / Where have you been?" She'll whisper, "I've waited, so long for you to come" / And as the stars above them hum...He'll turn to her and say, "That's what she said."

6. Marbles:

She sang, "do you think I'm sexy?" - And oh God, I really did.

Sipping drinks till we cry - oh if one more guy calls me darling then I swear to you, and to God, I will murder them all. Will the bastards applaud when I show that I'm flawed? - You're not flawed darling, you're just a little underrehearsed.

I sink to the floor, "What's the point anymore?" - You reply with the glint in your eye, "I don't don't know, but I'm here."

I've loved you for a hundred years - certainly f****** feels like it.

7. That Old Witch Sleep...:

That old witch sleep wishes, she kisses my eyelids, "you don't have to be brilliant" / They're just shadows searching for light, they can't stay / you are in the earth of me / Oh, sleep now, she pleads - You're not a coward 'cause you cower. You're brave because they broke you yet broken still you breathe / let's bury this...'cause I'm not trapped with you, you see, you're the one who's trapped with me. / Where you see weakness I see wit, sometimes I fall to pieces to see what bits of me don't fit / Pour me another shard full of glass, I toast to their talents and I forgive them at last.

8. Battle Cries:

Thirty winters will pass, you'll look back at the woman 50-year-old-you will be proud to have known

After summers of fasting, I feel hunger for the person 15-year-old-me would be proud to have known...And we'd laugh at the ghosts of our fears. We were gods, we were kids.

That creaking you hear in my bones, it's not pain, it's applause.

"Come at me, your blaggards," you'd yell from the banks, wielding words against make-believe wizards and tanks.

And these lines aren't wrinkles, they're just dollops of paint on a new work of art.

All it took to unearth —in the dust and the dirt— some release or respite from the heat and the hurt, was taking the time now and then to ask how I am.

This isn't a breakup it's a season finale / And now at the end (At the end of all things) I'm not gonna scream, beat my chest at the wind. I'm doing fine.

9. Inkpot Gods:

I made a vow out to the dark, "Please, let her live..." 'Cause she is so much more than all her scars and if she doesn't have the will...I'll stay, because I will be the man my father never was.

What you hear is not silence, it's just the trees waiting to hear what next you'll hum.

What you see is not the dark, it's just the gods upturning ink pots 'cause they know what you'll become

To those Gods I'll say bluntly, "you ever touch or harm him" please rest assured that you might not fear a man. But to a woman, by the end, you'll kneel and plea 'cause I'm more than what my mum told me to be.

10. The Calling

Back then, I was dauntless / my weakness made me weep less than I would ever show to you / I'd burn so bright it blinded...that light guided me here / To wring those embers from my broken heart and broken liver / I'm between that 'just one more' and 'drank too much' again / I look into the waters and see a face I don't understand / We're both unwanted daughters / I don't recognize..."What changed?" I ask, "So strange, " she replies / Shoulder the sky (I can't wait to show you how much) / back then I wasn't hopeful...I promise you I'll write "I love you" your sleeping hand / and when that fox howls, I'll howl with it. In its cries, I'll find an end. / When I think I'm fine, you'll visit and happen to me all over again. In the waters, I see a face I don't want look back / the rocks beneath my feet begin to crack / long ago that current caught us and we tried, I tried, I really fucking tried...But the rain kept coming down, I watched that woman drown.

Honorary lyrics and imagery

The trees tell us their stories, we called them liars...We thought you were mental, you were talking to trees!

Autumn hands

Write me weird, write me willing, write me well.

Be good, be safe, be kind.

It's like all the wallpaper inside my heart is peeling off. I'm showing all the stains and things they wrote on the wall before...today we ripped it off, we showed the world that we exist. Never really liked the pattern that much on the wallpaper, so anyway.

Brick by brick you built us...our mortar was your laughter... I'll brick by brick rebuild us out of hows and whys not whens

Burn a hundred theaters to get the wall paper right

We made universes out of bitten lips and broken hands

‘Cos I will suffer silence for the strings you tune

I pack what is needed for the journey to come. All my books and bracken and booze.

Do you like my dress, it has pockets?

If I have to be who I was, do I have to be who I am?

Leaves like fallen shards of stained glass windows shinning

You asked me for my fire now watch me burn

Mop up what's left of my lungs

You do not get to hurt me just because I asked you once if you were alright

To the dark I said pour and forgot to say when...And for the first time in all my life I know I'm more than what I fear.

I make myself acquainted with the saint of never getting it right

My saint, she is dancing and every step I choose to take begins to set the world aflame.

That wine you were saving, it's saving me now, love...I whisper aloud to my saint "oh we're going to get on."

[randomfandomimagine]

Prompt List #3 - The Amazing Devil Lyrics

HOW TO REQUEST

• Use these to request for prompts only

• Choose up to three sentences from this list

• Include the character’s full name & fandom!

• Include the sentence(s) and the number(s)

• You can also request a sentence not in this list

• Optional: You can add ‘angst’, ‘whump’, ‘fluff’…

• Specify that you’re requesting from this list, whether by saying it’s list 3 or by putting a ‘3-’ before the sentence you’ve chosen!

• Request example: Jaskier (Witcher) prompt with 3-4, ‘all that matters is that you’re here’

• If you need more information, I explain requests here and my rules here

◼ PROMPT LIST MASTERLIST ◼

“I'm the hardest goodbye that you'll ever have to say“

“I promise you I'll be better, I promise you I'll try”

“I cannot find the words to keep you” 

“All that matters is that you’re here”

“Why won't you believe I love you if I'm not hurting you”

“Just stop staring at the moon” 

“I don't know how to reach you when you get like this”

“You don’t see daylight anymore”

“You're going too fast, you'll burn out soon” 

“Stop asking why I'm sad, just know it's enough to know I'm sad”

“Give me two damn minutes and I'll be fine”

“If I'm good will you come back?”

“You try so loud to love me but I cannot seem to hear”

“You're not flawed, darling, you're just a little underrehearsed”

“The minute I met you, the colors of my life began to pour”

“It’s not fair how much I love you”

“How unreasonably in love I am with everything you do”

“I know exactly what I want, and it’s this life we have created”

“I was born to press my head between your should blades”

“It’s me, you don’t need to pretend to be someone you’re not”

“I’m still here, love, like I’ve always been before”

“It seems to me that you can’t sleep”

“Though some would harm you, not while by you I stand”

“I won’t let you turn our last night into this”

“This isn’t a break-up, dear heart, it’s a season finale”

“We’ll talk about this tomorrow”

“Your eyes aren’t rivers there to weep”

“Welcome to the storm, I am thunder”

“I know you’re strong enough to do this on your own”

“Without you I’m no longer filled with wonder”

“Let’s hide under the covers, we don’t know what’s out there”

“Would have stayed if you’d asked but instead you just walked away”

“And I love you, don’t you know?”

“Why you cannot sleep for sighing?” 

“I’m stronger now than you have ever known”

“Let not them hear the mutterings of all your fears”

“Whatever you do, don’t turn around”

“Our gods have abandoned us, take my hand”

“I’ll keep them safe”

“Did you tell them about the time we met?”

“I love you, don’t say anything”

“That’s why I put up fairy lights, just to distract you”

“Why so much make-up? You don’t need it, you’re so beautiful to me”

“Stop making up death wishes and take my lifeline”

“Can’t you see that I’m enough for you but you don’t want me to be?”

“And I know the kindest thing is to never leave you alone”

“You will scream I won’t forget you”

“I know I don’t belong” 

“You say these words so often that I barely know the meaning”

“I loved him then, I love him still”