Don't fall in love with a beautiful girl
Who tells you she likes your lipstick
Then smears it with her teeth

Don't fall in love with a damaged boy
Who begs you to stay and smoke one more cigarette
Darling, he doesn't need you; he needs anyone at all

Don't fall inive with the feeling of electricity you get when you're with her
Because when she leaves, you'll forget how to breathe without it

Don't fall in love with a time or a place or a memory
Because time passes and places burn to the ground and in your old age that memory will leave and be replaced with the curse of being absolutely human

Oh, yes, keep telling them that love is raw and unfiltered and incredible to experience
Haven't you heard you're incomplete without it?
Please, please– don't fall in love,
Unless you want your soul to shatter to an unfixable state of numbness so that you can only feel when you're drowning in liquor.