1. I'm
lonely so I do lonely things.
2. Loving you was like going to war; I never
came back the same.
3. You hate women, just like your father and
his father, so it runs in your blood.
4. I was wandering the derelict car park of
your heart looking for a ride home.
5. You're a ghost town I'm too
patriotic to leave.
6. I stay because you're the beginning
of the dream I want to remember.
7. I didn't call him back because he
likes his girls voiceless.
8. It's not that he wants to be a liar,
it's just that he doesn't know the truth.
9. I couldn't love you, you were a small
war.
10. We covered the smell of loss with
jokes.
11. I didn't want to fail at love like
our parents.
12. You made the nomad in me build a house
and stay.
13. I'm not a dog.
14. We were trying to prove our blood
wrong.
15. I was still lonely so I did even
lonelier things.
16. Yes, I'm insecure, but so was my
mother and her mother.
17. No, he loves me he just makes me cry a
lot.
18. He knows all of my secrets and still
wants to kiss me.
19. You were too cruel to love for a long
time.
20. It just didn't work out.
21. My dad walked out one afternoon and
never came back.
22. I can't sleep because I can still
taste him in my mouth.
23. I cut him out at the root, he was my
favorite tree, rotting, threatening the foundations of my
home.
24. The women in my family die waiting.
25. Because I didn't want to die waiting
for you.
26. I had to leave, I felt lonely when he
held me.
27. You're the song I rewind until I
know all the words and I feel sick.
28. He sent me a text that said ‘I
love you so bad’.
29. His heart wasn't as beautiful as his
smile.
30. We emotionally manipulated one another
until we thought it was love.
31. Forgive me, I was lonely so I chose
you.
32. I am a lover without a lover.
33. I am lovely and lonely.
34. I belong deeply to myself.
— 34 Excuses for Why We
Failed at Love