Stolen Verse

[vovat]

Here's an interesting meme that I got from travspence:

Put your MP3 player thingy on shuffle and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results.

It can sometimes be a little hard to judge exactly what should be considered the first line, but here's what I came up with:

Sleep in the flowerbed with rocks and stones
Where you been? Where you been? It's the same old question again
Old people in the cemetery, what must they be thinking of?
Sad as a painted clown, a beautiful boy in an ugly town
Last night, he could not make it
Once, my dear, is not enough
You're like sugar to my salt
Well, I thought about the army. Dad said, "Son, you're fucking high."
Softly the crystals falling on 17th Street do their dance and die and are gone
I saw you holding hands with some guy wearing light blue Dockers pants
Don't listen to Linda, she's said all those things before
If you know that I'm not lying, you know how hard I'm trying to live again as I lived back then
People, people, this is a poll
It's early morn, the birds are gone
Meet James Ensor, Belgium's famous painter
I believe you when you say you're alone in every way
Baby got going on a southern train
I'm hearing the light from the window
It's so cold outside, I almost love you again
Moon over the freeway, catch us as we ride

Comments

[suegypt.livejournal.com]

This is interesting, i'm going to try it.

PS - you needs must credit the songs for those we don't recognize (unless they are embarrassing, like half of mine will be).

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Hey, all of them are already recorded on my last.fm page (http://www.last.fm/user/pastoria), so I might as well list them here as well.

Buried Alive - Visqueen
Wild Mountain Berries - Kelly Hogan
Old People in the Cemetery - Of Montreal
All You Ever Do Is Walk Away - Magnetic Fields
Motorway to Roswell - Pixies
Jane, the Queen of Love - Frank Black and the Catholics
Stop - Lincoln
Army - Ben Folds
If You Don't Cry - Magnetic Fields
This Better Be Good - Fountains of Wayne
Don't Listen to Linda - Monkees
Everything I Don't Need - Fastbacks
Pick It Up and Dial It - Sloan
Heard You Wrong - Odds
Meet James Ensor - TMBG
A You You Never Knew - Future Bible Heroes
Baby Got Going - Liz Phair
Rio - Michael Nesmith
So Cold - Muckafurgason
Moon Over the Freeway - Ditty Bops

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

Hah, if we were playing the Name the Song game, the only one I'd know has the title in it already. I'm gypped!

See, I'm such a dork about that game though, I'd probably do this just as a clever decoy to make people actually play, anyway. Although that would require taking titles out occasionally, which would not be very poetic.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Although that would require taking titles out occasionally, which would not be very poetic.

Unless you're writing blank verse!