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    Thursday, December 4, 2008

    Lyric Poetry Quand Meme

    Via So Anyway, a meme:

    Put your music player 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 song is the title.

    Here's mine. The title is "I'm Not A Perfect Person." Ahem.

    When your baby leaves you all alone
    (Ou sont passees les plaines, les arbes a l'horizon)
    There must be some kind of way out of this.

    I'll never let you see -
    Do you feel that?
    There's a grief that can't be spoken.
    Now he's brought down the rain, and the Indian summer has gone.

    Like anyone would be,
    There's a nail in the door.
    Am I blue?

    On the turning away,
    If we still have time, we might still get by.
    Anyone who's ever had a heart ...

    It's not unusual to be loved by anyone
    The night we met, I knew I needed you so

    Closed off from love, I didn't need the pain
    Love, I get so lost sometimes
    When I think of all the worries people seem to find.
    You could power a city with this.

    I moved your picture from my wall.

    1 comments:

    Charis said...

    This is great. Neat idea. Might have my students try it sometime. Funny how some of the lines seem to intersect even though they are random. I wonder if this has more to do with recurring motifs in music or your own taste. Hmmmm....