Music Poem

[alaterdate]

Fun music poem meme going around.

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

You fear the cold at last?

I can taste the fear
I've been starting to accept that maybe this is all there is
Tell me just how deep you would dig
I'm not gonna tell you
I break it, by God, your face

Distant, everything is scattered
Now, if you weren't such a sucker
I'm next in line and my supply is running out
Got a date plan, this mindset
I buried the unseemly urges

Look out, they're closing in on you now
Say my name
I've grown a mouth so sharp and cruel
I don't care if it hurts
Voici le ciel avant qu'on tombe

Yes, my love I confess to you
Give it up
We live in the rain
I've made mistakes
This is it!

Ummmmm, rather bleak lol. I have noticed that a lot of songs I listen to are about winter/coldness so of course that crops up in the shuffle 😂 I like sad music, to no one's surprise.
I'm a little annoyed that the Glass Animals song at the end of the first stanza is already a broken line in the song "your face awakened" with awakened being in the next line. Also! I want to note that "I break it" refers to breaking bad news not physical damage, what an interesting line.

Comments

[rionaleonhart]

I really like this: both the concept and your result! Here's mine, 'In Fields Where Nothing Grew but Weeds' (done via YouTube's 'My Mix', so it's an assortment of things I've been listening to recently, meaning that the same few artists crop up a lot):


We're biding time as we wait for the signal.
I have my mother's dreams.
Wake up ready to shake up,
build me up just to tear me back down.
I've seen her smiling.

Warm yourself by the fire, son.
Life's too short to even care at all.
Dancing on the crumbling precipice,
I've got time to think about the meaning of a thousand variations.

Tell me what I've gotta do.
Kills me not to know this, but
hope dangles on a string.
I'm through with standing in line.
Am I the one to hold?

You were that foundation.
You can't feel the heat until you hold your hand over the flame.
Chairs thrown and tables toppled,
ever on and on.
I can see the storms in her eyes now.

The cycle repeated.

[alaterdate]

Ooh! Yours came out really good. I love how random lines can still shape a story. To me mine sounds like a bad breakup and yours sounds like intergenerational trauma. Fun!

I recognized a song in yours and my mind immediately read it in the voice of the singer 😂 That was happening to me when I read over mine as well. Sounded like those old Hit Clips of music tracks that only played a song for like 30seconds lol

[neotula]

I tried it but I don't think I'll share mine, lol. I had one too many musicals/joke songs come on for it to be very coherent. (Also, I'm embarassed that the Frozen soundtrack came up. What can I say? I liked the music!)

I always forget what a mix my music is till I go from some cool folksy song to some irreverent comedy band.

But this was fun for sure! I always love music memes like this, and it's always cool to see what other people end up with. I feel like the third stanza of yours was especially neat!

[alaterdate]

Understandable, I have playlists like that too! Having to drive people makes me aware of my mixed tastes as I skip tracks in my own playlists if someone else is in the car cuz it'll be like a musical song, bardcore cover, or some other weird remix and I don't think they'd want to listen to it :^p but I like whatever sounds good to me and don't care if the playlist is coherent ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This meme was fun. Of course the one French song in the mix I used for this had to come up, haha! I was honestly surprised. I like the third stanza too, the Crane Wives lyric "I've grown a mouth so sharp and cruel" makes it for me.