Return of the Meme Thing
Put your MP3-player/playlist on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first is the title.
Ariella, 7:30
Haven't we met?
Radio waves are coming miles and miles.
It's bitter;
I am just a poor boy and my story's seldom told.
She's holding a secret that she'll never tell,
"Take me now."
They made up their minds,
And so we talked all night about the rest of our lives.
Seems a downright shame:
All men, all men are liars.
Harsh words were said,
Nibblin' on spongecake.
Maybe it's intuition;
I weave brightly colored strings.
It's astounding--time is fleeting
Each day I live.
Every evening sky
She can kill with a smile.
Baby's black balloon makes her fly;
You are my sweetest downfall.
"Happiness Writes White," Harvey Danger
"Beautiful Stranger," Madonna
"Monster Ballads," Josh Ritter
"Fortress," Sister Hazel
"The Boxer," Simon and Garfunkel
"Love Turns 40," Vienna Teng
"Because the Night," Patti Smith
"The Way," Fastball
"Graduation (Friends Forever)," Vitamin C
"A Little Priest," Sweeney Todd
"All Men are Liars," Dar Williams
"We Were Lovers," Gankutsuou
"Margaritavilla," Jimmy Buffett
"I Knew I Loved You," Savage Garden
"Falling in Love with Love," Bernadette Peters (Cinderella)
"Time Warp," The Rocky Horror Picture Show
"One Moment in Time," Whitney Houston
"Every Season," Nicole Nordman
"Always a Woman," Billy Joel
"Black Balloon," Goo Goo Dolls
"Samson," Regina Spektor
And then I strong-armed it, cuz I could =P
So Far, So Good
We are not together here,
Nightfall brushing past your town.
And it's you, and it's me;
She's holding a secret that she'll never tell--
Soon, love, soon.
Sunday: dark water draining north.
Little child, be not afraid
Inside the labyrinth walls.
Summer move forward and stitch me the fabric of fall;
I'm at your back door with the earth of a hundred nations in my skin--
Strange how you know inside me.
In this desert land,
It's the quiet night that breaks me.
It's desert ice outside--
Feather moon, scarlet sky.
Hey, love,
Once when I was thirty-one,
I died in a car crash.
Everyone agrees it came too soon.
Shasta (Carrie's Song)
Between
Unwritten Letter No. 1
Daughter
Love Turns 40
Soon Love Soon
Pontchartrain
Lullaby for a Stormy Night
My Medea
Drought
Enough to Go By
Eric's Song
Shine
Nothing Without You
Homecoming (Walter's Song)
Feather Moon
Gravity
Decade and One
Passage
Say Uncle
Ariella, 7:30
Haven't we met?
Radio waves are coming miles and miles.
It's bitter;
I am just a poor boy and my story's seldom told.
She's holding a secret that she'll never tell,
"Take me now."
They made up their minds,
And so we talked all night about the rest of our lives.
Seems a downright shame:
All men, all men are liars.
Harsh words were said,
Nibblin' on spongecake.
Maybe it's intuition;
I weave brightly colored strings.
It's astounding--time is fleeting
Each day I live.
Every evening sky
She can kill with a smile.
Baby's black balloon makes her fly;
You are my sweetest downfall.
"Happiness Writes White," Harvey Danger
"Beautiful Stranger," Madonna
"Monster Ballads," Josh Ritter
"Fortress," Sister Hazel
"The Boxer," Simon and Garfunkel
"Love Turns 40," Vienna Teng
"Because the Night," Patti Smith
"The Way," Fastball
"Graduation (Friends Forever)," Vitamin C
"A Little Priest," Sweeney Todd
"All Men are Liars," Dar Williams
"We Were Lovers," Gankutsuou
"Margaritavilla," Jimmy Buffett
"I Knew I Loved You," Savage Garden
"Falling in Love with Love," Bernadette Peters (Cinderella)
"Time Warp," The Rocky Horror Picture Show
"One Moment in Time," Whitney Houston
"Every Season," Nicole Nordman
"Always a Woman," Billy Joel
"Black Balloon," Goo Goo Dolls
"Samson," Regina Spektor
And then I strong-armed it, cuz I could =P
So Far, So Good
We are not together here,
Nightfall brushing past your town.
And it's you, and it's me;
She's holding a secret that she'll never tell--
Soon, love, soon.
Sunday: dark water draining north.
Little child, be not afraid
Inside the labyrinth walls.
Summer move forward and stitch me the fabric of fall;
I'm at your back door with the earth of a hundred nations in my skin--
Strange how you know inside me.
In this desert land,
It's the quiet night that breaks me.
It's desert ice outside--
Feather moon, scarlet sky.
Hey, love,
Once when I was thirty-one,
I died in a car crash.
Everyone agrees it came too soon.
Shasta (Carrie's Song)
Between
Unwritten Letter No. 1
Daughter
Love Turns 40
Soon Love Soon
Pontchartrain
Lullaby for a Stormy Night
My Medea
Drought
Enough to Go By
Eric's Song
Shine
Nothing Without You
Homecoming (Walter's Song)
Feather Moon
Gravity
Decade and One
Passage
Say Uncle