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This is the song connections page, for showcasing links Marina has between songs and poems.

  • Motifs: motifs over Marina's songs, such as using 'lights' as a metaphor for success.
  • Lyrical Similarities: near identical lyrics used in different songs.
  • Repeated Themes: repeated instances of the words Marina uses, such as colours, but without any similarity to other songs.
    • Natural World: a subcategory focusing on the natural world, such as flowers and animals.
    • Emotions: a subcategory focusing on the natural world, such as love and fear.

American Dream[]

  • Where Diamonds Grow: Cash beginneth to rip a bigger, hole inside the American Dream.
  • Hollywood: American queen is the American Dream. [...] Puking American Dreams.
  • Teen Idle: Wish I’d been a prom queen, fighting for the title.

Death[]

Impending Doom[]

Dreaming[]

For someone:[]
  • Sinful: I know you're dreaming of the time when you were mine.
  • Homewrecker: But deep down all you want is love, the pure kind we all dream of.
  • Better Than That: Like all the boys before, another dream come true.
Of success:[]

Drinking[]

  • Supermodel's Legs: Go bake! Eat cake! Go cheer! Drink beer! Worrying is boring.
  • Are You Satisfied?: It's my business if I feel the need to smoke and drink and sway.
  • Shampain: Drinking champagne to forget yesterday.
  • Starring Role: Come on, baby, let's just get drunk, forget we don't get on.
  • Scab and Plaster: And in a cup of loneliness, I've found instant relief.
  • Teen Idle: I wanna drink until I ache.
  • Lies: Only if we're drinking can you see my spark.
  • Solitaire: I’ll admit all I wanna do is get drunk and silent.
  • Pandora's Box: I've escaped many vices, like drugs and alcohol.

Family[]

Dysfunctional[]
  • Bad Kidz: [...] Who are waiting for a call. That says, "I didn't mean it, I love you for who you are. [...] You'll always be my special star."
  • The Family Jewels: Only thing we share is one last name [...] Typical of me to put us all to shame.
  • Guilty: I was just a kid and all I really wanted was my father.
  • Starring Role: You're like my dad, you'd get on well. I send my best regards from Hell.
  • Scab and Plaster: Oh daddy, are we out of luck? You brought me up to bring me down.

Fakeness[]

Family Jewels[]

  • Starlight: You had a sad urge, to be wanted by fools. [...] Snoopin' troupin' enveloping your family jewels.
  • Where Diamonds Grow: Family jewels from fools need protecting.
  • The Family Jewels: Welcome to the family jewels, coal to diamond, sold to fools

Humankind[]

  • Power & Control: A human vulnerability.
  • Immortal: It's just another part of the human race [...] Oh, all the things that humans do, to leave behind a little proof.
  • Savages: It's a human trait [...] Humans aren't gonna behave [...] Forever running wild in the human race.
  • To Be Human: To be human a real human being [...] I wanna feel human again.
  • Purge The Poison: Virus come, fires burn, until human beings learn [...] Need to purge the poison, show us our humanity.

Identity[]

  • Fear and Loathing: I lived a lot of different lives, been different people many times. [...] Got different people inside my head, I wonder which one that they like best.
  • Valley of the Dolls: Living with identities, that do not belong to me.
  • The Archetypes: Queen of no identity, I always feel like someone else.
  • I'm Not Hungry Anymore: That made me change my town and name. [...] Been feeling like myself more than ever before.
  • Holiday: I feel like a poster of a girl, feel like I’ve been cut off from the world.
  • The Art of Letting Go: Looking in the mirror, didn’t recognise my face. Painted on facades slipping out of place.

Inequality[]

Racism[]
  • To Be Human: There were riots in America, just when things were getting better.
  • Purge The Poison: Need to purge the poison, show us our humanity, all the bad and good, racism and misogyny.
  • New America: You got a white picket fence and your dad's got a gun, and when you see the police, there's no reason to run.
Sexism[]
  • Hermit the Frog: Well, I wanna tell you a secret, you can take your double standard love and keep it.
  • Porn Does Good: Oh, women are meant to act coy, that's why we've bought all these toys. [...] But then you'll all think I'm a whore.
  • Girls: Write such good stories, oh, their mothers must be proud. Making money off your insecurity and doubt.
  • Power & Control: Women and men, we are the same, but love will always be a game.
  • Sex Yeah: If women were religiously recognized sexually, we wouldn't have to feel the need to show our ass-ets to feel free.
  • Can't Pin Me Down: Do you really want me to write a feminist anthem?
  • Cruel: I’m ready for the revolution, and you don’t get to tell me who to be. I’m an independent woman, and I’m the one who decides that I’m free.
  • Karma: And when your world comes crashing down, all of the money in this town won't save your reputation now.
  • Man's World: Maybe it is time, time you comprehend, the world that you live in ain't the same one as them. So don't punish me for not being a man.
  • Purge The Poison: 2007, when size zero was the rage⁣⁣⁣, Britney shaved her head and all we did was call her crazed.⁣⁣⁣
  • Venus Fly Trap: They'll shame you, blame you, pretend to even hate you. Take away your rights, pacify you with their lies.
  • New America: And all the lies they're here to raise, made them feel like a man.
  • Highly Emotional People: People say men don't cry, it's so much easier to just lie, till somebody takes their life.

Lights[]

As a metaphor for success[]
  • Living Dead: The weight of an empty life, Will lessen in the moonlight. In the light, In the light-light-light.
  • Miss Y: And the lights, they get stronger. [...] For the honour, to become great.
  • Fear and Loathing: And when the time comes along, and the lights run out.
  • Electra Heart: Lights they blind me.
  • Primadonna: In the limelight, I want to stay. [...] When the lights dimming down, down, down.

Living in the Dark[]

  • Miss Y: I walked all night long in the dark just to be standing here.
  • Lies: You only ever touch me in the dark. [...] 'Cause the night is your woman and she'll set you free.
  • Radioactive: Waiting for the night fall, for my heart to light up.
  • Lonely Hearts Club: Take advantage of my heart, and I’ll go back into the dark.
  • Buy the Stars: You’re still living life in the dark.
  • Electra Heart: I'm Electra Heart, only living, living in the dark.
  • EVOL: A day in the dark.

Stars[]

Metaphor for Love[]
  • The Common Cold: Try to drag you higher, but the stars, they fracture.
  • Starlight: Stars and love burn bright, till they’re ready to die.
  • Buy the Stars: You’re buying stars to shut out the light. [...] And no matter how hard you try, I’ll always belong in the sky.
  • Goodbye: Heaven, if there's a star for us, up there in your lovers' universe.
In reference to a person[]
  • Silver Walls: Hey man, hey man, you're a superstar.
  • Bad Kidz: Whether you make it in this sick industry or not, you'll always be my special star.
  • Sex Yeah: Tired image of a star, acting naughtier than we really are.
  • Gold: Doesn't matter long as I am your star, star.
  • You: Everybody thinks that you're a star.
  • Superstar: Baby, look at me, you're my superstar.
Misc[]
  • Man's World: Stars in my hair running like a waterfall.

Success/Failure[]

  • Forget: Like an abacus I played with, counting every win and fail.
Success[]
Failure[]
  • Oh No!: I'm gonna fail, I'm gonna die.

Weighing Scales[]

  • Horror Pop: The weighing scales they broke my back, that's what imbalanced me.
  • Forget: Ever since I can remember, life was like a tipping scale.
  • Demons and Angels: Try to change but I can’t get a grip, I’ve been waiting for the scales to tip.

Trivia: Marina is a Libra, the symbol of which is a set of Weighing Scales.

Beauty Queen / Silver Screen[]

  • Eternity: On the silver screen, I’m the beauty queen.
  • Primadonna: Beauty queen on a silver screen.

Being on One's Own[]

Black Heart[]

Black and White[]

Black Hole[]

Blonde / Feeling Conned[]

  • Supermodel's Legs: I might not look quite like a natural blonde, and I can't help but feel conned.
  • Teen Idle: I wanna be a bottle blonde, I don't know why but I feel conned.

Burning Bright[]

  • Starlight: Stars and love burn bright. [...] Stars burn bright till they die.
  • Numb: Stars that burn the brightest.

Cat Who Got the Cream[]

  • Are You Satisfied?: One life pretending to be, the cat who got the cream.
  • Better Than That: They all say she's got low self-esteem, so, why is she looking like a cat who got the cream?

Electra Heart[]

Family Jewels / Fools[]

  • Where Diamonds Grow: Family jewels from fools need protectin'.
  • Starlight: You, oh, you had a sad urge, to be wanted by fools. Welcoming girls that would be, snoopin', troopin' enveloping your family jewels.
  • The Family Jewels: Welcome to the family jewels, coal to diamond, sold to fools.

Leaving First[]

  • Jealousy: I never say a word, leave you before you leave me.
  • Radioactive: But baby, I'm the one who left you, you're not the one who left me.

Love and Fear[]

Midas Touch[]

  • Where Diamonds Grow: Forget the Midas, I've got the diamond touch.
  • Gold: You can’t take away the Midas touch, so you better make way for a Greek gold rush.

Owning Someone[]

  • Blindfold Me: Jealousy made you want to own me, and that was what left us both a little lonely.
  • Hypocrates: I know you only want to own me, and that's the kind of love you show me.
  • Buy the Stars: Still, you'd like to think you own me. You keep buying stars.
  • You: You don't own me, but I can't cut you loose.

Pandora's Box[]

  • The Family Jewels: Out come flying all the secrets of Pandora's box.
  • Pandora's Box: You opened up Pandora's box, you don't know what you just unlocked.

Parts of me had to die to become a Butterfly[]

  • Cocoon (poem): Now I can see to truly live, parts of me had to die. To be reborn again, again, a better butterfly.
  • BUTTERFLY: To become a butterfly parts of me had to die.

Preaching[]

Push and Pull[]

Rolling Stone[]

  • Demons and Angels: Yes I guess I like to be alone, hit the gravel like a rolling stone
  • Not Over You: Spent all my nights alone, but I don't wanna be a rolling stone

Spilt Milk[]

  • Daddy Was a Sailor: She could've been a model but she spent, her life moppin' up spilt milk.
  • The Outsider: Spilt the milk at breakfast, hit me double hard.

Staying[]

Think Like a Guy[]

  • Happy Meal: For girls like her, and guys like me.
  • Porn Does Good: 'Cause I'm feeling ashamed that I feel like a boy.
  • Girls: Look like a girl but I think like a guy, not ladylike to behave like a slime.

To Love Another and Be Loved[]

  • Mowgli's Road: Do you think you will be good enough, to love others and to be loved?
  • Life Is Strange: Is it ever gonna be enough to love another and be loved?

Concepts[]

Misc[]

Falling[]

Rise and Fall[]

Games[]

Soul Selling[]

  • This is L.A.: It's all about her 'cause she's an out-out sell, she'll trade her soul for a burning Hell.
  • Sex Yeah: Sold my soul, and yeah, the truth hurts.
  • The State of Dreaming: I would sell my sorry soul if I could have it all

People[]

Body Parts[]

Blood[]

  • Hubba: To discover my inner cheeks were all bloody and torn.
  • Hot, Cross Bun: Raiding Greek houses for blood and for meat.
  • Teen Idle: I want blood, guts and chocolate cake.
  • Radioactive: My blood is burning, radioactive.
  • Savages: Is it running in our blood, is it running in our veins?
  • Cause I'm A Woman: Hot blooded, yeah you know that I'm a natural.
  • Demons and Angels: Maybe it's just in my blood, maybe pain is good for us.
  • Baby: I saw you there, and my blood ran cold.
  • About Love: But you're in my head, you're in my blood.
  • Purge The Poison: A place so corrupt where angel flesh and blood is sold.
  • New America: They've got blood on their hands.
  • Million Tiny Knives (poem): “At first they felt like scratches I didn’t want to make a fuss until one morning I woke up and I was covered in my blood”
  • Heavy Metals (poem): In order to change shape I need to let go, detoxify my blood of her tart red anger.
  • Behemoth (poem): All the tears, sweat, blood that went into building you.
Veins[]
  • Gold: 'Cause fortune’s running out of my veins.
  • Savages: Is it running in our blood, is it running in our veins?
  • Heavy Metals (poem): Detoxify my blood of her tart red anger that runs ribbons, snakes, bows through every organ, vein, bone before nesting dormant in my heart.
  • Behemoth (poem): The structure, the heart, the lack of proper veins.

Eyes[]

Feet[]

  • Philosopher My Arse: 'Cause I won't fall and kiss your feet, everybody knows they're cleaner than your lips.
  • Plastic Rainbow: Now I see footprints of a man, runnin' through my eyes.
  • Supermodel's Legs: My supermodel's legs, look pretty crap on a 5-foot-4 girl.
  • Bad Kidz: If only you'd quit trying to cripple, our dancing feet.
  • Dirty Sheets: Dirty houses, dirty sheets, wonderbra and unclean feet.
  • The Other Foot: I'm a left footer but I'm thinking right.
  • Just Desserts: Now that the shoe is on the other foot.
  • Orange Trees: Been around the world, but I could never replicate, the feeling that I get beneath my feet.
  • Land of Limbs (poem): Millions of orphaned legs, hands, feet, looking to rejoin their bodies.

Hands[]

Head[]

Heart[]

Someone else's Heart[]

Knees[]

  • Miss Y: Drop your knees to the floor, hands to the sky.
  • Primadonna: Would you get down on your knees for me?
  • I Love You: Silver stars upon my face, leather boots upon my knees.

Lips[]

  • Philosopher My Arse: Everybody knows they're cleaner then your lips.
  • Lonely Bones: And the collagen they put in your lips.
  • Hubba: To discover my lips and cheeks.
  • Bubblegum Bitch: I'm Miss Sugar Pink, liquor, liquor lips.
  • E.V.O.L: Pink lipstick stains, cigarette butts.
  • Proof of Time (poem): Searching for proof of a society that existed pre lip fillers and pre butts lifted, but they're gone.

Family[]

Grandfather[]

  • Daddy Was a Sailor: Grandpa was a miner, and he gave me my black art.
  • Sinful: I know my own granddaddy worked so hard for this.

Father[]

Mother[]

  • Daddy Was a Sailor: Mama was a mermaid and a Carnaby Street gal, she could've been a model but she spent, her life moppin' up spilt milk.
  • Hubba: Mother said I'd choke but I'd just given up the fight.
  • Hot, Cross Bun: The day a mother went, to claim what was rightfully hers.
  • Blindfold Me: My mother says, run as fast as you can.
  • Bad Kidz: Thinking of all the mothers and the daughters.
  • Can't Pin Me Down: I could be your mother.
  • Saviour: Oh, mother all I do is sleep.
  • Man's World: If you have a mother, daughter or a friend.
  • Goodbye: I've been a mother to everyone else.

Sister[]

  • Daddy Was a Sailor: Sister dances salsa, and she chants just like a queen.
  • Saviour: Oh, sister can you feel my grief tonight?

Marina[]

  • Porn Does Good: Hello, everybody! This is Marina.
  • Are You Satisfied?: Oh, everybody said "Marina is a dreamer".
  • Hollywood: Actually, my name's Marina.
  • Miss Y: "Oh, Marina, what a shame you didn't make the upper cut"/"Oh, Marina, we're so sorry but you didn't make the cut".
  • Bump in the Night: Calm down, Marina, yeah, you must be paranoid.

Electra Heart[]

Religion[]

Heaven[]

  • Scab & Plaster: I'm gone, I'm gone to Heaven, I'm gone, I'm gone to Hell.
  • Buy the Stars: Oh we don't own our Heavens now, we only own our Hell.
  • Forget: If I'll ever get to Heaven, when a million dollars gets you there.
  • Handmade Heaven: But in this handmade Heaven, I come alive.
  • Man's World: I'm a strawberry soda, raise my lashes to Heaven
  • Goodbye: Heaven, if there's a star for us.

Angel[]

Hell[]

  • Numb: Ooh, I get dark, and I'm in Hell.
  • Sinful: They began crying, they knew that I'd applied to Hell, they knew I got in.
  • Starring Role: I send my best, regards from hell.
  • Scab & Plaster: I'm gone, I'm gone to Heaven, I'm gone, I'm gone to Hell.
  • Buy the Stars: Oh we don't own our Heavens now, we only own our Hell.
  • Purge The Poison: Like an angel gone to Hell, cast the moon under our spell.

Devil[]

  • Hermit the Frog: I went to the doctors believing, the Devil had control over me. [...] I can't help the Devil likes to make my heart a double bed.
  • Forget: Yeah, I've been dancing with the Devil, I love that he pretends to care.
  • Better Than That: With an angel voice, Devil in disguise.

Demon[]

God[]

  • Pancake Karma: Ran down the streets with pancake gods saying "We can see your guilty, guilty eyes, tonight a pancake thief dies"
  • Hollywood: He said, "Oh, my god, you look just like Shakira, no, no, you're Catherine Zeta!"
  • Teen Idle: Oh God, I’m gonna die alone!
  • Weeds: And God knows that sex is a way to feel a bit, a little bit less lonely.
  • Savages: I'm not afraid of God, I am afraid of man.
  • Immortal: I wanna be immortal, like a god in the sky.
  • Cruel: I can look you dead in the eye and hope to God you die.
  • Demons and Angels: I believe that what I feel can set me free and God knows, if I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels.
  • To Be Human: And if there is a God, they'll know why it's so hard to be human.
  • Karma: I'm like, "Oh my god, I think it's karma!"
  • Emotional Machine: My God is dying silently.
  • Too Afraid: This isn't living, this isn't how I thought my life would be, God, I need to get out.
  • New America: God forgive America for every single war.
  • Highly Emotional People: The universe hangs like a necklace from God.
  • Billionaire's Beach (poem): Until it splits into a trillion tears cried from the cornea of God, propelled back into time.
  • I don't want the same anymore (poem): Please believe me, God when I say: I don’t want the same anymore.

Saviour[]

  • Savages: Are you killing for yourself or killing for your saviour?
  • Saviour: Not looking for a saviour 'cause I'm the one to blame, yeah

Objects[]

Diamonds[]

Milk[]

  • Daddy Was a Sailor: She could've been a model but she spent, her life moppin' up spilt milk.
  • The Outsider: Spilt the milk at breakfast, hit me double hard.
  • E.V.O.L: Milk and roses, squeaky clean.

Million Dollars[]

  • Gold: I don't care that everybody knows, I'm a million dollars in the hole.
  • Forget: If I'll ever get to Heaven, when a million dollars gets you there.
  • Cruel: ‘Cause I'm a million dollar jewel.
  • Venus Fly Trap: But I earned it all myself, and I'm a millionairess.

Words[]

Colours[]

  • Plastic Rainbow: And I am falling from the sky in a million multi-coloured lies.
  • Supermodel's Legs: Promising wild sex and marriage with a big colour chart wand.
  • Guilty: Killed a dog so small and rare, touched its technicoloured hair.
  • Can't Pin Me Down: You can paint me any colour and I can be your clown.
  • The Art of Letting Go: Now that I’m in bloom, all my colours show.
  • If It's Worth It: You're colourful, I'm so black and white.
  • Handmade Heaven: Bluebirds forever colour the sky.
  • Flowers: And now my future gleams with colours bold and bright.
  • Four Seasons (poem): No broken families at the four seasons, just jade-coloured pools and periwinkle skies.
  • BUTTERFLY: Too bad you'll never see, the colours inside me.

White[]

Pink[]

Red[]

  • Froot: They're gonna make me into sweet red wine.
  • Forget: Yeah, I've been living in the red.
  • To Be Human: Go to Russia, see the Red Square.
  • New America: Stars are shining for you, sparkling red and blue.
  • School of Life (poem): Remember when i talked at the school of life, and in the car home how you made me cry right before i flew to new york, on a red-eye gumball-red eyes can’t count how many times.
  • Beautiful/Evil (poem): A plane cut through sky, candy apple red. A virgin atlantic-themed bird overhead.
  • Heavy Metals (poem): In order to change shape I need to let go. Detoxify my blood of her tart red anger.
  • BUTTERFLY: Red, gold, orange, blue, white, green, violet too.

Yellow[]

  • Eclipse (poem): The roots of trauma, now yellowed and withered, fell away in the wind.
  • Behemoth (poem):Yellow zellige tiles happy like California

Orange[]

  • BUTTERFLY: Red, gold, orange, blue, white, green, violet too.

Green[]

Blue[]

  • Plastic Rainbow: Blue Maybelline mascara is running down my favourite shirt.
  • Blindfold Me:I had a feeling when I met you, didn't think liars' eye came in blue.
  • Obsessions: Silk sheet, blue dawn
  • Blue: Gimme anything but blue, blue, blue, royal blue.
  • Solitaire: I'm in love with the ice-blue grey skies of England.
  • New America: Stars are shining for you, sparkling red and blue.
  • Factory Settings (poem): Blue-silver holes gape like spotlights when the wind blows.
  • Night Surfing (poem): Nothing for miles but baby blue.
  • Four Seasons (poem): No broken families at the four seasons, just jade-coloured pools and periwinkle skies.
  • BUTTERFLY: Red, gold, orange, blue, white, green, violet too.
  • I Love You: Pink and purple, blue and gold.

Purple[]

  • BUTTERFLY: Red, gold, orange, blue, white, green, violet too.
  • I Love You: Pink and purple, blue and gold.

Grey[]

  • Hollywood: I itch my skin, I jump up and say "Lady, I know why your thoughts turn grey."
  • Solitaire: I'm in love with the ice-blue grey skies of England.
  • The Sparkling Clam (poem): I shut my shell up tight⁣ every opening a risk to⁣ my soft grey centre⁣.
  • Cocoon (poem): I've been wrapped in this film of grey for too long. [...] I'm 37 now and the grey layers run deep.

Black[]

Gold[]

  • Troubled Mind: Wipe the white golden dust into these broken hands.
  • Lonely Bones: Your earthly name engraved in gold.
  • Pancake Karma: Burning like golden rings.
  • Hollywood: You're looking for the golden light.
  • Rootless: Leper with a golden bell.
  • Numb: Shine, looking for the golden light.
  • Radioactive: Tonight I feel like neon gold.
  • Solitaire: I see people and cars covered in gold.
  • To Be Human: The pagodas and the palaces, dressed in gold leaf, hide the damages.
  • The Sparkling Clam (poem): I became a sparkling clam⁣ spending days in sun rays⁣ on virgin gold sand⁣.
  • BUTTERFLY: Red, gold, orange, blue, white, green, violet too.
  • I Love You: Pink and purple, blue and gold.

Silver[]

Phrases[]

Apple of[]

One Track Mind[]

  • Numb: One track mind like a goldfish.
  • Oh No!: One track mind, one track heart.

Swearing[]

Bitch[]

Fuck[]

  • Philosopher My Arse: Don't you think you can fucking lie to me.
  • Seventeen: Well, you don't know fuck about my family.
  • Perfect-Oh: Thank fuck you didn't harm the spark in me, I know it's all I've got.
  • Happy Meal: But you prefer to fuck up your mental health. [...] That I know will just fuck with my head.
  • Starlight: But you're a fucked up kid, and we sow what we reap.
  • The Outsider: I grinned at you softly 'cause I'm a fuckin' wild card.
  • Like the Other Girls: Hey! Won't give a fuck what you say.
  • Starring Role: You don't love me, big fucking deal.
  • E.V.O.L: To fuck love up and make it evil. [...] To fuck up two beautiful people.
  • New America: Fucked with the food chain, fucked with the farming too.
  • I Love You But I Love Me More: Well, if we were, then why did we fuck it up?
  • Goodbye: I fucked it up, I lost it all.
  • Pink Convertible: We're so fucking blind, praying we'll be fine.
Motherfucker[]

Shit[]

Animals[]

Birds[]

  • Froot: Birds and worms will come for me.
  • I'm a Ruin: A flower in a gun a bird in flight.
  • Handmade Heaven: Bluebirds forever colour the sky [...] 'Cause birds of a feather fly together.
  • Beautiful/Evil (poem): I felt sad for the birds at the top of the tree.

Butterflies[]

  • Butterflies (poem): I wish I talked slower. Let the words linger and be born in full form, but instead they skitter like butterflies in a storm.
  • Cocoon (poem): Most butterflies get free at 21, 23. I'm 37 now and the grey layers run deep.
  • BUTTERFLY: Yeah, I'm a butterfly, you just never seen my energy.

Cats[]

  • This Is L.A.: Oh, life's a catwalk, life is tough, yeah.
  • Bad Kidz: I am a cat and you are the mouse.
  • Are You Satisfied?: One life pretending to be, the cat who got the cream.
  • Rootless: I've got nowhere to go, I'm a stray cat on the roam.
  • Better Than That: They all say she's got low self-esteem, so, why is she looking like a cat who got the cream?

Frogs[]

Botanical[]

Flowers[]

  • This is L.A.: Of fallen flowers and rising weeds.
  • Bad Kidz: If you gave us a flower, we'd sit and we'd water it.
  • Froot: I'm your carnal flower, I'm your bloody rose.
  • I'm a Ruin: A flower in a gun, a bird in flight.
  • Weeds: Could have filled a garden, with all the flowers that you gave me.
  • Immortal: I wanna be a silk flower.
  • Orange Trees: I can see the flowers and the greenery.
  • Venus Fly Trap: Why be a wallflower when you can be a Venus fly trap?
  • Flowers: If you just bought me flowers, maybe I would've stayed.
  • Cocoon (poem): Never tasted the nectar that summer flowers bring

Roses[]

  • E.V.O.L: Milk and roses, squeaky clean.
  • Froot: I'm your carnal flower, I'm your bloody rose.
  • The Art of Letting Go: Pushing at the concrete, like a stubborn rose.
  • Handmade Heaven (Demo): And I can no longer ignore, the roses growing tall.
  • Flowers: The seeds we planted grew, but not like roses do.

Bloom[]

  • Immortal: But a memory, a memory, can make a flower bloom.
  • The Art of Letting Go: Pushing at the concrete, pushing like a stubborn rose. Now that I’m in bloom, all my colours show.
  • Highly Emotional People: Life takes its time in its own fashion, emotions unfold like a superbloom in action.
  • Flowers: We had the thorns and leaves, but the buds, they never bloomed.

Fruit[]

  • Froot: Hanging like a fruit, ready to be juiced.
  • Better Than That: Got a sour face, like a poisoned fruit.
Specific[]
  • Seventeen: She's got all the personality, of a lemon that has been truly sucked dry.
  • Hubba: Transformed into bitter rancid strawberry crumbs.
  • Froot: Leave it too long I'll go rot, like an apple you forgot.
  • Froot: I'm your deadly nightshade, I'm your cherry tree.
  • Bubblegum Bitch: Life gave me some lemons so I made some lemonade.
  • Orange Trees: Just you and me, sitting by the orange trees.
  • Man's World: I'm a strawberry soda, raise my lashes to Heaven.
  • Tiny Leopards (poem): Eyes glow green like fresh peeled grapes.

Climate[]

Change[]

  • Man's World: Mother Nature's dying, nobody's keeping score.
  • Purge The Poison: Quarantined, all alone, Mother Nature's on the phone, "what have you been doin'? Don't forget, I am your home."

Seasons[]

  • Froot: I've seen seasons come and go.

Spring[]

Summer[]

  • Froot: It's summertime and I hang on the vine.
  • Orange Trees: Summer's in the air, bodies in the heat.
  • Smoothness of Money (poem): You remind me of British summertime, lush lawns, green countryside, M&S sandwiches, eating lunch outside with your glossy, perfect family, so kind they made me nervous.
  • Cocoon (poem): Never tasted the nectar that summer flowers bring.

Autumn[]

  • Froot: Autumn, I'll be gone.

Winter[]

Weather[]

Clouds[]

  • Rootless: I'm a cloud drifting by.
  • E.V.O.L: A day in the cloud of gloom, yeah.
  • To Be Human: Watch the black cloud crawling nearer.
  • Man's World: Clouds in the whites of our eyes, we saw it all.
  • Purge The Poison: Earth is like a white rose, quiet cloud of petals cold.
  • Land of Limbs (poem): Cynics do not survive, they move away to cooler climes, leave their bile behind on sidewalks to sizzle and evaporate into clouds of vaporised dreams.
  • Hotel Riche (poem): Nothing touches me now, just encase me in clouds.

Rain[]

Snow[]

Storm[]

The Universe[]

Black Hole[]

  • The Art of Letting Go: I’ve been high and I’ve been low, swallowed up by a black hole.
  • Enjoy Your Life: Never think we'll get out of this black hole.
  • Eat the World (poem): Insatiable, endless black hole of everythingness. [...] Nothing could touch the sides of my crippling black star, void, jet, black hole of noise.

Universe/Celestial Objects[]

Sky[]

  • Starlight: The broken spend their lives, staring at the sky.
  • Rootless: I'm a cloud drifting by, dripping tears from the sky.
  • Numb: I got dark only to shine and I'll light up the sky.
  • Living Dead: Just bird's eye view from the sky above.
  • Miss Y: Drop your knees to the floor, hands to the sky.
  • Fear and Loathing: The sky is clear, it's clear of fear.
  • Buy the Stars: And no matter how hard you try, I'll always belong in the sky.
  • Immortal: I wanna be immortal, like a god in the sky.
  • Handmade Heaven: Bluebirds forever colour the sky.
  • Beautiful/Evil (poem): A plane cut through sky, candy apple red, a virgin atlantic-themed bird overhead.
  • Hotel Riche (poem): The peace I feel in the sky is unparalleled.
  • Cocoon (poem): They make it so easy twinkling metallic in the sky.

Sky and Stars[]

Stars[]

  • Daddy Was a Sailor: Would he, could he, be home when the stars came out to party.
  • Starlight: Stars and love burn bright, till they're ready to die.
  • The Common Cold: Try to drag you higher, but the stars, they fracture.
  • Shampain: Watching the stars slide down to reach the end.
  • Numb: Stars that burn the brightest, fall so fast and pass you by. Spark like empty lighters.
  • Sinful: I lost my spine inside the centre of a star.
  • Valley of the Dolls: Dying like a shooting star.
  • End of the Earth: Where the stars collide as the planets turn.
  • Life Is Strange: People driving fancy cars look like beetles to the stars.
  • New America: Stars are shining for you, sparkling red and blue.
  • Goodbye: Heaven, if there's a star for us, up there in your lovers' universe.

In reference to a person[]

  • Silver Walls: Hey man, hey man, you're a superstar.
  • Bad Kidz: Whether you make it in this sick industry or not, you'll always be my special star.
  • Sex Yeah: Tired image of a star, acting naughtier than we really are.
  • Gold: Doesn't matter long as I am your star, star.
  • You: Everybody thinks that you're a star.
  • Superstar: Baby, look at me, you're my superstar.

Misc[]

  • Man's World: Stars in my hair running like a waterfall.

Sun[]

Anger[]

Fear[]

Freedom[]

Personal Freedom[]

  • Seventeen: Oh, you were embarrassed of me 'cause I used my tongue freely.
  • Daddy Was a Sailor: I was a non-believer when she told me I was free.
  • Are You Satisfied? (demo): Tell me, when will we be free.
  • Sex Yeah: If history could set you free. [...] We wouldn't have to feel the need to show our ass-ets to feel free.
  • Happy: And all the sadness, inside me melted away, like I was free.
  • Forget: I'm gonna leave the past behind I've had enough, I'm breaking free.
  • Gold: Now there’s no moral to this story but I can hear my freedom calling me, calling me. [...] Free, I am free
  • Cruel: I'm an independent woman and I'm the one who decides that I'm free, I'm free of cruel rule.
  • The Art of Letting Go: Now I’ve got the freedom, no need to be sad, everything I wanted, I already had.
  • Demons and Angels: I believe that what I feel can set me free and God knows, if I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels.
  • Orange Trees: I can see the flowers and the greenery, I take a breath of air, I feel free. [...] This is how it feels to be free.
  • Sway With Me: People they said, always said to me, “You’re out of control” but honey I’m free.
  • Free Woman: I'll never let go of our freedom and our hope 'cause I'm a free woman.
  • Death by Panamera (poem): I’m scared to be happy, I’m scared that I’ll miss being sad, even though I so want to be free.

In Relationships[]

  • Seventeen: You want a hassle free life? Then find your upper class wife.
  • Obsessions: Can't let your cold heart be free when you act like you've got an OCD.
  • Rootless: Running with my roots pulled up so they could cut me free of love.
  • Starring Role: But nothing's ever gonna give, I'll never set you free.
  • Eternity: Love and death, they will set us free.
  • Lies: 'Cause the night is your woman, and she'll set you free.
  • Froot: Hanging around like a fruit on a tree waiting to be picked, come on cut me free.
  • I'm a Ruin: You still mean everything to me, to me, but I wanna be free.
  • Emotional Machine: It's hard to see, that you wanna be free. 'Cause I don't love you, in the way that you want me to.

Guilt[]

  • Guilty: Guilty on the run, and I know what I have done.
  • Dirty Sheets: Female guilt is a fast swimmer, I want to be the only winner.
  • Saviour: Ain't nothing that the Lord don't see, the lies, the guilt won't shelter me.

Happiness[]

  • Happy Meal: I'm happy day-to-day but this hunger, it never goes away.
  • Are You Satisfied?: Was I meant to feel happy that my life was just about to change?
  • Homewrecker: I'm only happy when I'm on the run.
  • Happy: And finally, I have found a way to be happy, happy.
  • Can't Pin Me Down: Do you really want me to write a feminist anthem? I'm happy cooking dinner in the kitchen for my husband.
  • Solitaire: And I'm happy to be on my own.
  • Enjoy Your Life: Looking to the future like it's gonna make you happy.
  • True: Be happy with the body that you're in, in, in.
  • Too Afraid: I guess I didn't know if I was happy.
  • Happy Loner: 'Cause I'm happy being a loner.
  • Death by Panamera (poem): I’m scared to be happy, I’m scared that I’ll miss being sad.
  • Behemoth (poem): Yellow zellige tiles happy like California.

Hope[]

  • Horror Pop: I hoped you were a Gemini.
  • The State of Dreaming: Millions of girls float on that one quote, living on their last hope, on their last hope.
  • Valley of the Dolls: Born with a void hard to destroy with love, or hope.
  • Cruel: I can look you dead in the eye and hope to God you die.
  • Water Under the Bridge: Hope you never knew me at all.
  • Pandora's Box: I pray that hope's not lost. [...] I kept my hope alive.
  • Flowers: In a home that's filled with love and hope and a life that just feels right.
  • Goodbye: I hope you'll always be happy.
  • Free Woman: I'll never let go of our freedom and our hope.

Love[]

  • Troubled Mind: Like the glitter making love to the gleam.
  • Horror Pop: I never fell in love with other Libras [...] I fell in love but I didn't look back.
  • Starlight: Stars and love burn bright, 'til they’re ready to die. [...] Love is like starlight, see it when a star dies.
  • The Common Cold: Love is a turbulent sea, are you scared to swim with me?
  • Perfect-Oh: And that's a thing you had to deal with when you fell in love with me. [...] I feel you only loved me when you realized that I was all you ever had.
  • Happy Meal: Like chocolate, sex, cigarettes, and love, no none of these things seem enough.
  • Blindfold Me: Love is cruel, when you realise that you'd give your life to someone who has given up on you. [...] This type of love don't wanna win
  • Bad Kidz: "I didn't mean it, I love you for who you are"
  • Jealousy: I think I'm fine, I think I'm tough, until I go and fall in love.
  • Mowgli's Road: Do you think you will be good enough, to love others and to be loved?
  • Obsessions: Last night's love affair is looking vulnerable in my bed.
  • Oh No!: Don't do love, don't do friends, I'm only after success.
  • Rootless: Running with my roots pulled up so they could cut me free of love.
  • The Family Jewels: Family said that I decided to live a loveless life.
  • Dirty Sheets: True love isn't enough for us, true love isn't found like this.
  • Living Dead: I haven't lived life, I haven't lived love.
  • Starring Role: You don't love me, big fucking deal. [...] I never sang for love, I never had a heart to mend.
  • Power & Control: Give a little, get a lot, that’s just how you are with love. [...] Women and men, we are the same, but love will always be a game.
  • Eternity: Love and death go hand in hand.
  • The Archetypes: And you will never know, and you will never know, love (love).
  • Bubblegum Bitch: I'll chew you up and I'll spit you out 'cause that's what young love is all about.
  • Lies: You're never gonna love me, so what's the use? [...] What's the point in saying you love me like a friend?
  • Homewrecker: And love, it never happens like you think it really should.
  • Valley of the Dolls: Born with a void hard to destroy with love or hope.
  • Hypocrates: You say that love is not that easy. [...] And that’s the kind of love you show me.
  • Radioactive: Love is all that I fear. [...] I want you to die for [...] my love
  • Lonely Hearts Club: Love will never be forever.
  • How to Be a Heartbreaker: Singing I lo-lo-lo-love you (At least I think I do!) [...] So it's better to be fake, can't risk losing in love again.
  • E.V.O.L: It only takes two lonely people to fuck love up and make it evil.
  • Froot: Babe, I love you a lot, I'll give you all I've got. [...] You're my one true love, I'm your destiny.
  • I'm a Ruin: When it comes to love, you’re an easy fight. [...] But I'm still young and I want to love again.
  • Blue: Gimme love, gimme dreams [...] No, I don't love you, no, I don't care. I just wanna be held when I'm scared.
  • Forget: Yeah, I've been dancing with the devil I love that he pretends to care.
  • Gold: Yeah, I know that I need the gold but what I love can’t be bought or sold.
  • Solitaire: I'm in love with the ice-blue grey skies of England.
  • Weeds: And when nothing feels enough, at least you taught me how to love, how to love, love.
  • Immortal: When you love somebody, they'll always leave too soon. [...] But the only thing that doesn’t die is love.
  • I'm Not Hungry Anymore: Now I don't care what the future holds, as long as I love and grow old. [...] I'm not hungry for love, your love anymore.
  • Absent Love: You make absent love look so easy.
  • Doubt Your Love: I want love, without fear, I want our love crystal clear. [...] Babe I doubt your love every single day.
  • If It's Worth It: Push and pull, pullin' me, pullin' me back to your love. [...] When I'm fed up and I doubt our love.
  • Superstar: My love is a planet revolving your heart.
  • Orange Trees: Wrap your love around me.
  • Baby: I was young, didn't know 'bout love, you were wild, couldn't get enough.
  • To Be Human: We're united by our love, we're united by our pain.
  • End of the Earth: Love can never be what you want it to be. [...] But I'll give my love, I don't care if it hurts.
  • Believe in Love: I need to believe in love, why is what you give never enough?
  • Life Is Strange: Is it ever gonna be enough, to love another and be loved?
  • You: You don't love me like you think you do.
  • Emotional Machine: 'Cause I don't love you, in the way that you want me to. [...] Did you ever truly love me?
  • Soft to Be Strong: I found out love has to be soft to be strong.
  • About Love: I don't really know a lot about love. [...] I know that our love was fate, so I stay.
  • Venus Fly Trap: I sacrificed it all for a life to call mine, all the love and security to be myself.
  • Purge The Poison: Inside all the love and hate, we can now regenerate.
  • Pandora's Box: You know that love's a gift, but it can also be a curse.
  • I Love You But I Love Me More: You try to tell me that we're so deep in love. [...] Told you before that love isn't enough.
  • Flowers: I would rather not betray myself just to keep your love at any cost.
  • Goodbye: I will never be yours again, never wanted our love to end.

Self Love[]

Sadness[]

Solitude[]

By choice[]

  • Starlight: I went to our favourite bars, and I drank in them alone. Woah, 'cause I’ve grown up a solitary soul, sometimes I think it’s better on my own.
  • Starring Role: You know I'd rather walk alone than play a supporting role.
  • Scab and Plaster: But I prefer to be alone, than live a life that's not my own.
  • Solitaire: I see people and cars covered in gold, and I'm happy to be on my own.
  • Demons and Angels: Yes, I guess I like to be alone, hit the gravel like a rolling stone.

Loneliness[]

  • Happy: So now you know, you know it all, that I've been, des-desperately alone.
  • Disconnect: Don't know where I wanna go, I don't wanna be alone.

Oblivion[]