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Meme rules: Put your MP3 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 is the title.
Don’t Talk, Listen, This Is No Time To Fill The Room With Words
Like this, like that, like this this, like that (1)
Mardi Gras lights up the city (2)
Take your head around the world (3)
You only hold me up like this (4)
I never needed love like I need you (5)
When your day is long (6)
The blessed dawn of Christmas day (7)
Beauty queen of only 18 (8)
Looking back at the crash site (9)
I used to think my life was so empty (10)
Here we are, isn’t life bizarre (11)
Can I call you sweetheart? (12)
I see our fate, I see our past (13)
Morphine makes the holy known (14)
Been down and out and laying low (15)
Today something happened that caused my heart to tremble (16)
Sometimes I wake up feeling like I did way back in L.A. (17)
We’re gonna die like this, ya know (18)
Buddy you’re a boy make a big noise (19)
My grandma owned a nightclub on the arkansas oklahoma line (20)
(1) Jet Set Radio Future OST
(2) “Crazy ‘Bout Ya” by Cowboy Mouth
(3) “You Won’t Be Mine” by Matchbox Twenty
(4) “Of All The Gin Joints In The World” by Fall Out Boy
(5) “When I’m With You” by Sheriff
(6) “Everybody Hurts” by Paul Anka
(7) “That Blessed Dawn of Christmas Day” by Harry Connick, Jr.
(8) “She Will Be Loved” by Maroon 5
(9) “Invisible City” by The Wallflowers
(10) “Cable TV” by ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic
(11) “Without It” by MuteMath
(12) “Do Your Feet Hurt” by MxPx
(13) “Picture” by MuteMath
(14) “Uncut OH” the German ‘Duck Tales’ Intro
(15) “Out Ta Get Me” by Guns N’ Roses
(16) “My Footsteps Will End At The Throne” by M & M
(17) “I’m Alive” by Audio Adrenaline
(18) “Number Five With A Bullet” by Taking Back Sunday
(19) “We Will Rock You” by Queen
(20) “Honky Tonk U” by Toby Keith
(Title) “Listen” by Courage Riley