On June 16, 2017, singer-songwriter Lorde released her second studio album, Melodrama — thankfully, because it's fantastic.
Here are 35 lyrics from the album that I'm still not over:
1.
2. "Bet you rue the day you kissed a writer in the dark, now she's gonna play and sing and lock you in her heart"
–"Writer in the Dark"
3. "I'll start letting go of little things 'til I'm so far away from you"
–"Hard Feelings/Loveless"
4. "In the morning, you'll be dancing with all the heartache and the treason, the fantasies of leaving"
–"Sober"
5.
6. "In my head I play a supercut of us, all the magic we gave off, all the love we had and lost"
–"Supercut"
7. "Get you wild, make you leave"
–"Liability"
8. "Megaphone to my chest, broadcast the boom, boom, boom, boom, and make 'em all dance to it"
–"The Louvre"
9. "'Cause honey, I'll come get my things, but I can't let go"
–"Green Light"
10.
11. "Break the news — you're walking out to be a good man for someone else"
–"Writer in the Dark"
12. "But every perfect summer's eating me alive until you're gone"
–"Liability"
13. "God, I wish I believed you when you told me this was my home"
–"Hard Feelings/Loveless"
14. "They say, 'You're a little much for me, you're a liability'"
–"Liability"
15.
16. "I whisper things, the city sings 'em back to you"
–"Green Light"
17. "Stood on my chest and kept me down, hated hearing my name on the lips of a crowd, did my best to exist just for you"
–"Writer in the Dark"
18. "King and Queen of the weekend"
–"Sober"
19. "'Cause I remember the rush, when forever was us, before all of the winds of regret and mistrust"
–"Hard Feelings/Loveless"
20.
21. "I overthink your punctuation use, not my fault, just a thing that my mind do"
–"The Louvre"
22. "They're gonna watch me disappear into the sun, you're all gonna watch me disappear into the sun"
–"Liability"
23. "I'll find a way to be without you, babe"
–"Writer in the Dark"
24. "When you've outgrown a lover, the whole world knows but you"
–"Hard Feelings/Loveless"
25.
26. "I'm 19 and I'm on fire"
–"Perfect Places"
27. "Says he made the big mistake of dancing in my storm, says it was poison"
–"Liability"
28. "I'm just the sucker who let you fill her mind"
–"The Louvre"
29. "We'll end up painted on the road, red and chrome, all the broken glass sparkling, I guess we're partying"
–"Homemade Dynamite"
30.
31. "Now we sit in your car and our love is a ghost"
–"Hard Feelings/Loveless"
32. "Thought you said that you would always be in love, but you're not in love no more"
–"Green Light"
33. "When you see me, will you say I've changed?"
–"Writer in the Dark"
34. "It's time to let go of this endless summer afternoon"
–"Hard Feelings/Loveless"
35. And finally, "So I guess I'll go home, into the arms of the girl that I love, the only love I haven't screwed up, she's so hard to please but she's a forest fire, I do my best to meet her demands, play at romance, we slow dance in the living room, but all that a stranger would see is one girl swaying alone, stroking her cheek"
