Song Poems
A couple of poems using song lyrics, the first one using song titles, and the second one using song lyrics, making some changes of course to make it flow better.
Song Poem 1
Riptide
the struggle
(it won’t stop
till 28)
Because of you
I’m holding on for life
there ain’t no sunshine
(I kissed you goodnight
in my high heel leather boots)
What’s in my head:
hustler’s lament
of what u doin’
so don’t swallow the cap
Give it away
Write your story
Call me when I’m lonely
and let me love you
Feel like making love?
Come get it
Rock around the clock
on a magic carpet ride
Do I look worried?
Take me home
to a love shack
with lighters
in sweater weather
It’s a good day, sunshine
to follow your arrow,
your true north
man
Whip
paper planes
like a bicycle--
the plastic soul of
a high school lover
riding a cowboy
over and over again
I’ve got you under my skin
with a warrior’s call,
an infernal resurrection
of gold
As long as you love me
there’s just one more chance
(a second chance)
so let me down easy
and hold on
A kind of blue
(a funeral
of codependence)
was the way we were,
like too close
Tell her about it:
we are the champions
(sweet thang
young girls)
Can’t remember to forget
that I’m drunk in love;
you’re my favorite mistake
It wasn’t me
(truly)--
still not a player
though a friend of the devil
waiting outside the lines
If I die young
step up
with real good hands
for red red wine
and all this love
Kiss me
Take off your shirt
Your body is a wonderland
I’m lost in wonderland
and slow lights
that come back down
Say something:
“good riddance”
to swingtown
Born to run,
you did it for the girl
who’s hungry like the wolf
with summertime sadness
Song 2
Welcome to the new age
I can't stay
How have you been?
I pray to a God
that I don't believe in
When you're lost and on your own
maybe it's time to come home
No matter what
feel this magic in the air
Maybe I'm lonely
ain't got the same soul
All things great and small
don't feel like they should
Whenever wherever
live for the highs
Something unpredictable
will make my life complete
Let me go crazy
(would you have it any other way)
It's right under my thumb:
the reason is you
You know your love is real:
there's something so
crazy about that face
my state of mind:
you're just a waste of time
Pick up the pieces
Live each moment
like your last
I was roaming around
and let it all out
Never leave me
barely breathing
You could be my someone
(no one else will do)
Step back from that ledge
Je ne regrette rien
Everybody cries
for the very first time
Learn to love yourself
Be the one who
always makes me smile
If I go crazy
today and every day...
Holding on to you
makes me so confused
Can't see you again
till the end
wide-eyed wanderer
hears it coming
Can't live without
a little ditty
Song Poem 1
Riptide
the struggle
(it won’t stop
till 28)
Because of you
I’m holding on for life
there ain’t no sunshine
(I kissed you goodnight
in my high heel leather boots)
What’s in my head:
hustler’s lament
of what u doin’
so don’t swallow the cap
Give it away
Write your story
Call me when I’m lonely
and let me love you
Feel like making love?
Come get it
Rock around the clock
on a magic carpet ride
Do I look worried?
Take me home
to a love shack
with lighters
in sweater weather
It’s a good day, sunshine
to follow your arrow,
your true north
man
Whip
paper planes
like a bicycle--
the plastic soul of
a high school lover
riding a cowboy
over and over again
I’ve got you under my skin
with a warrior’s call,
an infernal resurrection
of gold
As long as you love me
there’s just one more chance
(a second chance)
so let me down easy
and hold on
A kind of blue
(a funeral
of codependence)
was the way we were,
like too close
Tell her about it:
we are the champions
(sweet thang
young girls)
Can’t remember to forget
that I’m drunk in love;
you’re my favorite mistake
It wasn’t me
(truly)--
still not a player
though a friend of the devil
waiting outside the lines
If I die young
step up
with real good hands
for red red wine
and all this love
Kiss me
Take off your shirt
Your body is a wonderland
I’m lost in wonderland
and slow lights
that come back down
Say something:
“good riddance”
to swingtown
Born to run,
you did it for the girl
who’s hungry like the wolf
with summertime sadness
Song 2
Welcome to the new age
I can't stay
How have you been?
I pray to a God
that I don't believe in
When you're lost and on your own
maybe it's time to come home
No matter what
feel this magic in the air
Maybe I'm lonely
ain't got the same soul
All things great and small
don't feel like they should
Whenever wherever
live for the highs
Something unpredictable
will make my life complete
Let me go crazy
(would you have it any other way)
It's right under my thumb:
the reason is you
You know your love is real:
there's something so
crazy about that face
my state of mind:
you're just a waste of time
Pick up the pieces
Live each moment
like your last
I was roaming around
and let it all out
Never leave me
barely breathing
You could be my someone
(no one else will do)
Step back from that ledge
Je ne regrette rien
Everybody cries
for the very first time
Learn to love yourself
Be the one who
always makes me smile
If I go crazy
today and every day...
Holding on to you
makes me so confused
Can't see you again
till the end
wide-eyed wanderer
hears it coming
Can't live without
a little ditty