So this is shamelessly based on Screaming Faeries' Huge TV Shows Quote Bucket, and I hope she doesn't mind :)

This mega list is a collection of lyrics I like, and is also known as Welcome To My Head.

All of the lyrics listed below come from songs I know, and it doesn't matter if you don't know the song. There is a mixture of popular and obscure songs. Some of them contain profanity.

You can either quote the lyric in your story, use the lyric as inspiration or use the song it originates from as inspiration. If you're using it as a quote in your story, tenses and sexes can be changed. Any changes you're unsure about, ask.

Each lyric you use will earn you 1 point. Every time you reach 10 points, I'll review a story of your choice. Each time you reach 15 points, you'll receive a prize drabble of a pairing/character/theme of your choice (around 100 words).

Rules:

• Minimum word count is 100, no maximum.
• It is one lyric per story, no more.
• I will be performing random checks to ensure the lyric is being used in some way.
• There is no restriction on rating or theme.

List of Lyrics

1. "Just give me one fine day of plain sailing weather and I can fuck up anything." - Frank Turner, Plain Sailing Weather
2. "The rain came pouring down when I was drowning; that's when I could finally breathe." - Taylor Swift, Clean
3. "I can't take back the words I never said." - Skylar Grey, Words
4. "I'm gonna pick up these pieces, and build a Lego House, and if things go wrong we can knock it down." - Ed Sheeran, Lego House
5. "I don't wanna be that call at four o'clock in the morning, because I'm the only one you know in the world who won't be home." - Pink, Sober
6. "Now I'm told that this is life, and pain is just a simple compromise." - Paramore, Misguided Ghosts
7. "You are creating all the bubbles at night. I'm chasing round, trying to pop them all the time." - Biffy Clyro, Bubbles
8. "And if a double-decker bus crashes into us: to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die." - The Smiths, There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
9. "The book of love is long and boring, and written very long ago. It's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes, and things we're all too young to know." - Peter Gabriel, The Book of Love
10. "I hate everything about you. Why do I love you?" - Three Days Grace, I Hate Everything About You
11. "What a shame we all became such fragile broken things." - Paramore, Let The Flames Begin
12. "I sleep with my passport, one eye on the back door, so I can always run." - Frank Turner, I Am Disappeared
13. "I didn't bring you up so they could wear you down." - Taylor Swift, Brought Up That Way
14. "And they say, she's in the Class A Team, stuck in her daydream, been this way since eighteen." - Ed Sheeran, A Team
15. "I held the funeral the day you left, a black umbrella and a sad song in my head." - Skylar Grey, Back From The Dead
16. "Now you've been talking in your sleep, things you never say to me. You tell me that you've had enough of our love." - Pink, Just Give Me A Reason
17. "When your legs don't work like they used to before, and I can't sweep you off of your feet, will your mouth still remember the taste of my love?" - Ed Sheeran, Thinking Out Loud
18. "You can sit beside me when the world comes down. If it doesn't matter, then just turn around." - The All-American Rejects, Mona Lisa
19. "I feel like I'm some kind of Frankenstein, waiting for a shock to bring me back to life, but I don't wanna spend my time waiting for lightening to strike." - Jeremy Messersmith, A Boy, A Girl And A Graveyard
20. "Don't waste your time on me, you're already the voice inside my head." - Blink-182, I Miss You
21. "Leave the Bourbon on the shelf, I'll drink it by myself." - The Killers, Leave the Bourbon on the Shelf
22. "He says she's beautiful, that girl he talks about, and she's got everything that I have to live without." - Taylor Swift, Teardrops on My Guitar
23. "Up until now I had sworn to myself that I'm content with loneliness." - Paramore, The Only Exception
24. "If I could hold on through the tears and the laughter, would it be beautiful, or just a beautiful disaster?" - Kelly Clarkson, Beautiful Disaster
25. "I am the son and heir of nothing in particular." - The Smiths, How Soon Is Now
26. "When you're feeling empty, keep me in your memory, leave out all the rest." - Linkin Park, Leave Out All The Rest
27. "D'you ever get that feeling you can't shift, the type that sticks around like something's in your teeth?" - Arctic Monkeys, Do I Wanna Know?
28. "Thanks to you, years ago, I guess I'll never know, what love means to me." - Pink, Long Way To Happy
29. "I want these words to make things right but it's the wrongs that make the words come to life." - Fall Out Boy, Thanks For The Memories
30. "I've been trying so hard to not turn into my father, but if I only ever skip out his choices will I ever chose better?" - Frank Turner, Redemption
31. "All I wanted was you." - Paramore, All I Wanted Was You
32. "You said, 'I love you, boy.' I know you lie. I trust you all the same; I don't know why." - Biffy Clyro, Many of Horror
33. "Now I'm looking through the bible, trying to find a loophole. I'm looking for revival, dying for a new soul." - The Script, Rusty Halo
34. "There's a saltwater film on the jar of your ashes. I threw them to sea, but a gust blew them backwards and the sting in my eye that you then inflicted, was par for the course just as when you were living." - Death Cab For Cutie, Styrofoam Plates
35. "The first cut is the deepest, but the rest still flipping hurt. You build your heart of plastic, get cynical and sarcastic, and end up in a corner on your own." - Passenger, The Wrong Direction
36. "I wrote the gospel on giving up but the real bombshells have already sunk. At night we're painting your trash gold while you sleep." - Fall Out Boy, This Ain't A Scene
37. "I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now." - The Smiths, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
38. "You seem so out of context in this gaudy apartment complex; a stranger with your door key, complaining that I'm not listening." - The Postal Service, The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
39. "On any clock upon the wall, the time is always now, so kiss the past goodbye; don't let the future blow your mind." - Joss Stone, Security
40. "Why do we like to hurt so much?" - Paramore, That's What You Get
41. "Lover, please, don't fall to your knees. It's not like I believe in everlasting love." - Laura Marling, Ghosts
42. "Well the devil's water, it ain't so sweet, you don't have to drink right now, but you can dip your feet in." - The Killers, When You Were Young
43. "Oh, don't mind me, I'm watching you two from the closet, wishing to be the friction in your jeans. Isn't it messed up how I'm dying to be him?" - Fall Out Boy, Sugar, We're Going Down
44. "I hope to God nobody calls, but trust the scratching in the walls to be my comfort and my shelter from the world around me." - David Ford, Panic
45. "To find yourself, just look inside the wreckage of your past. To lose it, all you have to do is lie." - Thirty Seconds to Mars, R-Evolve
46. "You find yourself at my door, just like all those times before; you wear your best apology, but I was there to watch you leave." - Taylor Swift, The Last Time
47. "And you're singing a song, thinking this is the life, and you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size. Where you gonna go, where you gonna sleep tonight?" - Amy MacDonald, This Is The Life
48. "Don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to." - Fleetwood Mac, Oh Well
49. "Tonight when the darkness comes, why don't we treat it like a friend? Then we'll both be glad to see the night and we'll be hoping it's never gonna end." - Joss Stone, Sleep Like A Child
50. "For all the things around the house you left unthrown, go to hell." - David Ford, Go To Hell
51. "He calls the mansion not a house but a tomb." - My Chemical Romance, To The End
52. "If you wanna find love, then you know where the city is." - The 1975, The City
53. "Well sometimes, you can't change and you can't choose. And sometimes, it feels like we gain more than we lose." - Passenger, Holes
54. "Well I've been afraid of changing, 'cause I've built my life around you." - Fleetwood Mac, Landslide
55. "Everything was going just the way I planned, the broccolli was done. She doesn't know that I'm a virgin in the kitchen, 'cause it's normally my mum." - McFly, Broccolli
56. "I tried to be somebody else, but nothing seemed to change. I know now this is who I really am inside." - Thirty Seconds To Mars, The Kill
57. "Ever fallen in love with someone you shouldn't have fallen in love with?" - The Buzzcocks, Ever Fallen In Love
58. "Sometimes I feel we stay together out of fear of dying alone." - Death Cab For Cutie, You Can Do Better Than Me
59. "No you can't hop into my shower; all I ask for is one fucking hour." - Pink, Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)
60. "Another night of sublime self-destruction to the tune of a thousand cigarettes, when every nail they hammered into your spirit wasn't able to break you just yet." - David Ford, I'm Alright Now
61. "And you throw your head back laughing like a little kid. I think it's strange that you think I'm funny, 'cause he never did." - Taylor Swift, Begin Again
62. "My brother had a book he would hold with pride; a little red cover with a broken spine. On the back, he handwrote a quote inside: 'When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die'." - Linkin Park, Hands Held High
63. "There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold, and she's building a stairway to Heaven." - Led Zeppelin, Stairway to Heaven
64. "A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." - Simon and Garfunkel, The Boxer
65. "But it was not your fault but mine, and it was your heart on the line; I really fucked it up this time, didn't I, my dear?" - Mumford and Sons, Little Lion Man
66. "And though my edges may be rough; I never feel I'm quite enough; it may not seem like very much, but I'm yours." - The Script, I'm Yours
67. "If Heaven and Hell decide that they both are satisfied, illuminate the 'No's on their vacancy signs; if there's no one beside you when your soul departs, I will follow you into the dark." - Death Cab For Cutie, I Will Follow You Into The Dark
68. "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." - Janis Joplin, Me and Bobby McGee
69. "I would go out tonight, but I haven't got a stich to wear. This man said, 'It's gruesome that someone so handsome should care." - The Smiths, This Charming Man
70. "I've been thinking of everything I used to want to be." - Thirty Seconds To Mars, The Story
71. "Stop making them eyes at me and I'll stop making them eyes at you. What it is that's surprising me is that I don't really want you to." - The Arctic Monkeys, I Bet That You Would Look Good On The Dancefloor
72. "School bag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning, waving goodbye with that absent minded smile." - Abba, Slipping Through My Fingers
73. "I tried so hard and got so far, but in the end, it doesn't even matter." - Linkin Park, In The End
74. "When victory comes at too heavy a price, well there's honour in choosing defeat, like the boy who was given the keys to the world, and decided to sleep on the street." - David Ford, To Hell With The World
75. "You're tied together with a smile but you're coming undone." - Taylor Swift, Tied Together With a Smile
76. "You and me, I can feel us dying. Are we?" - No Doubt, Don't Speak
77. "Just because you feel it doesn't mean it's there." - Radiohead, There, There
78. "You see her when you close your eyes. Maybe one day you'll understand why everything you touch surely dies." - Passenger, Let Her Go
79. "Can you imagine a time when the truth ran free?" - Thirty Seconds To Mars, Closer to the Edge
80. "There's a time and a place to die, but this ain't it." - Paramore, Now
81. "You say you're in love like it's a real sure thing, but every time you fall you get your ass in a sling." - Aerosmith, Falling In Love (Is Hard on The Knees)
82. "You say you wanna move on, and you say I'm falling behind. Can you read my mind?" - The Killers, Read My Mind
83. "I'm swimming in the smoke of bridges I have burned." - Linkin Park, Burning In The Skies
84. "You had a little time and you had a little fun, didn't you? While you had yours, do you think I had none?" - Beautiful South, A Little Time
85. "Had a plan, couldn't follow. Had a dream, it was hollow." - Natasha Bedingfield, Peace of Me
86. "Hey there, father, I don't mean to bother you but I've got a sin to confess. I'm just sixteen if you know what I mean, do you mind if I take of my dress?" - The Pretty Reckless, Going to Hell
87. "Second chances, they don't ever matter, people never change." - Paramore, Misery Business
88. "When you go, would you have the guts to say, 'I don't love you like I did yesterday.'" - My Chemical Romance, I Don't Love You
89. "I knew better because you said forever and ever. Who knew?" - Pink, Who Knew
90. "If we weren't all crazy, we'd go insane." - Jimmy Buffett, Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes
91. "If we were blind and had no choice, would we hate each other by the tone of our voice?" - Anthrax, Schism
92. "Oh my god, look at that face. You look like my next mistake." - Taylor Swift, Blank Space
93. "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice." - Rush, Freewill
94. "You're walking the wire between pain and desire and looking for love in between." - The Eagles, Victim of Love
95. "If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be, 'We're all okay.'" - Jewel, Hands
96. "If you believe in forever, then life is just a one night stand." - The Righteous Brothers, Rock and Roll Heaven
97. "This time I'm mistaken for handing you a heart worth breaking." - Nickleback, How You Remind Me
98. "Keep your feet on the ground when your head's in the clouds." - Paramore, Brick By Boring Brick
99. "Perhaps the saddest thing I know is smokers outside the hospital doors." - The Editors, Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors
100. "Nobody ever pulls the seams round here but I don't really mind that it's starting to get to me." - The Killers, Sam's Town

Entrants

Liza

Bex

Ella - 1 - 54. Built

OCDegrassi

Alys

Greenschist - 1 - 76. Death's Next Claim

Lizzy - 2 - 55. Bad Omen, 73. We'll Be Alright

halffictionalprincess - 1 - 20. For Her Own Good

Sehanine

Iesh - 2 - 35. Pain of a Monster, 57. Unforgivable Loves

Firediva0

Connie

Nene Amano

Fanciful Rivers

I'm in :)

Thank you :)

Why are you doing this to me? I'm in of course.

Haha nice to have you on board :)

Lyric 54: Built

I don't need more challenges! Ugh, I'm in :P

I'm in!

I'm in, although I'll probably forget about this like I do Sophie's. :)

Thank you :)

I'm in!

#20-For Her Own Good

55 - Bad Omen

73 - We'll Be Alright

Thank you both :)

I'd like to join please.

Thank you :) I'll add you to the list :)

Was having a small writer's block so I took one of the songs as prompt. So, yeah, I'm in. :D

35. Pain of a Monster

No worries, I'll add you now :)

QAQ Are you trying to help overwhelm me with challenges? I love most of those lyrics... *Sighs in resignation* Start digging 6 feet under because i'm totally in. :D

Haha glad to have you on board, and I'm glad you like my choices :)

#76: Death's Next Claim

Thank you!

Bumping for visibility.

Awesome, I love lyrics.. Really inspiring!! You also have made a great mix here. I am in.

57. Unforgivable Loves

Cheers

Iesh

73 - We'll Be Alright