favourite "sm(f)s" lyrics

“so much (for) stardust” (2023) by fall out boy

love from the other side

• it kills me you know i’m dying out here
• we were like a painting you could never frame
• this city always hangs a little lonely on me loose, like a kid playing pretend in his father’s suit
• i’d never go, i just want to be invited
• inscribed like stone and faded by the rain: “give up what you love, give up what you love before it does you in”

heartbreak feels so good

• nobody said the climb was friendless but could we please pretend this won’t end?
• it was an uphill battle but they didn’t know
• we could dance our tears away, emancipate ourselves

hold me like a grudge

• thaw out my freezer burn feelings for twenty summers
• silent killers are these years, coming like waves
• you put the “fun” into dysfunction
• part-time soulmate, full-time problem
• i thought i knew better, i thought it would get better, i figured somehow by now, i would have got it together

fake out

• i make no plans and none can be broken
• do you laugh about me whenever i leave? or do i just need more therapy?
• love is in the air, i just gotta figure out a window to break out
• buried alive inside my dreams
• we did it for futures that never came and for pasts that we’re never gonna change

heaven, iowa

• i’ve unspooled on the floor, i feel so “a star is born”
• i will never ask you for anything except to dream sweet of me
• tell me when the party ends, will you still love who i am?
• i’m checking myself out forever
• talking to the mirror say, “save you breathe, half your life you’ve been hooked on death”

• i got this doom and gloom but i feel alright
• feeling so good right now till we crash and burn somehow
• drifting from the start, i ripped myself apart, i’ll be whatever you need me to be

the pink seashell

• a random lottery or meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes
• the moment where your laughter becomes a cackle

i am my own muse

• i like playing dumb, letting you figure me out but i was faded in my own defence
• drop a bomb on all the things we dreamed about
• i know i keep my feelings so tucked away, just another day spent hoping we don’t fall apart
• i’m just trying to keep it together but it gets a little harder when it never gets better

flu game

• late at night in my room, lie awake, think of you and all your little dooms
• i carved out a place in this world for two
• confront all the pain like a gift under the tree

baby annihilation

• time is luck and i wish ours overlapped more or for longer
• the first time i took the mask off, just had another one on underneath
• stuck in a wasteland we covered in glitter and broadcast just for a little serotonin
• what is there between us, if not a little annihilation?

the kintsugi kid

• i am a hard, hard pill to swallow and i know i’m not your intended dose
• roll the highlights, the “got too high” life
• i spent ten years in a bit of chemical haze and i miss the way that i felt nothing
• i felt you at the beginning but needed you at the end
• oh, but you don’t know me anymore

what a time to be alive

• i don’t care if it’s pretty, the view’s so pretty from the deck of a sinking ship
• they say that i should try meditation but i don’t want to be with my own thoughts

so much (for) stardust

• i feel like something that’s been stretched out over and over again until i’m creased and i’m about to break down the middle
• the stars are the same as ever and i don’t have the guts to keep it together
• ache it till you make it
• i think i’ve been going through it and i’ve been putting your name to it