21 songs = 1 poem meme

[msmcknittington]

1. Put your music player on shuffle
2. The first lines of twenty songs = a poem; the first line of the twenty-first song is the title

Ganked from michellek.

My addendum to these is that if it's instrumental or in a language I can't speak, then I get to skip it. Because what do you do? Write [violins]?



Title: Say What, That's What My Baby Said to Me

Home is behind
In Henry Street, it was reported
Oh, hallowed halls and vine-draped walls
And then I start some lyrics

There is a house in New Orleans
Give me one reason to stay here
You and your beautiful life
You're so pretty

Little did I know
Mary walks down to the water's edge
It's the season of grace coming out of the void
Blushing a cue for her falsities

The river was deep, but I swam it
M-O-M-M-Y needs C-O-F-F-E-E
Your isolation binds us
One and one half wandering Jews

In-a-gadda-da-vida, honey,
Dashing and daring
Rhiannon rings like a bell through the night
Every time that I hear a woman cry

_{1. The Steward of Gondor -- Billy Boyd [LotR soundtrack] 2. Jealousy -- Heidi Talbot 3. Dear Old Shiz -- "Wicked" cast recording 4. Inward Singing -- Tenacious D 5. House of the Rising Sun -- Led Zeplin 6. Give Me One Reason -- Tracy Chapman 7. Run Away Happy -- Hotel Lights 8. You're So Pretty -- Cloud Cult 9. Little Did I Know -- Over the Rhine 10. Mary -- Sarah McLachlan 11. The Atheist Christmas Carol -- Vienna Teng 12. Penny is Poison -- Verve Pipe 13. Dammit, Janet -- Brad [Rocky Horror Picture Show] 14. The Coffee Song -- Ralph Covert 15. Sky Is Falling Down -- Sarah Fimm 16. Hearts and Bones -- Paul Simon 17. In-a-gadda-da-vida -- Iron Butterfly 18. Gummi Bears Theme Song -- Gummi Bears 19. Rhiannon -- Fleetwood Mac 20. Kisses -- Rasputina 21. Do What -- Squirrel Nut Zippers}

Well, they're words. And they are in stanzas. And they make sense after a fashion, but there's not much narrative structure.

Comments

[beraht.livejournal.com]

I used to roam all night long
I'm young and I'm strong
Let's get lost
Films will come and films will go

I didn't feel like doing all twenty, but the opening stanza's kinda cool.

Also, yay for Sarah Fimm.

[sistercoyote.livejournal.com]

I will eventually do this meme, but I will do it in my own way, which is to say that I will not take them exactly in order but move them around until the rhythm and the order of the lyrics pleases me.

Because I'm just that way.

[irisheye.livejournal.com]

You always post the awesomest memes!

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

It's because I can't resist a meme if I see it. I'm a fool for a meme.