Since I seem to be doing memes . . .

[omorka]

1. Put your MP3 player on shuffle play.
2. Write down the first lines of the first twenty songs.
3. Post the poem that results.
4. The title is the first line of song twenty-one.

I'm being overly literal and taking the first line of the first real verse - skipping the chorus, if the song opens with the chorus. Not cutting, since it's not that long:

I Remember On The Floor

I'm right on target -
Don't know much about history.
I am a medicine man;
Lying in my bed, I hear the
Messenger of fear in sight.

Turmoil back in Moscow -
Are you blind when you're born?
What would you think?
I saw a newspaper picture,
Now that you're gone, nothing is wrong.

There's something happening here -
It's coming through a hole in the air.
Six o'clock already,
I see you from my window -
Take that look of worry.

It's not often that time turns itself around.
Daddy's best girl in the world -
Time keeps on slipping
Into darkness, our descending,
Try to see it my way?



"Drop the Pilot," the Mandy Moore cover
"What a Wonderful World," the Art Garfunkel cover
"Medicine Man," Bobby McFerrin
"Time After Time," the Novaspace cover
"The Thing That Should Not Be," Metallica

"Turbulence," Warren Zevon
"Jellicle Cats," from Cats
"With a Little Help From My Friends," the Beatles
"Tramp the Dirt Down," Elvis Costello
"Ever After," Joe Jackson

"For What It's Worth," Buffalo Springfield
"Democracy," Leonard Cohen
"Manic Monday," the Bangles
"Fadeaway," the BoDeans
"Take Me Home," Phil Collins

"I'm Fine," Patty Larkin
"Little Fool," Elvis Costello
"Fly Like an Eagle," the Seal cover
"Battle Cry," Three
"We Can Work It Out," the Beatles

title: "Lincoln Logs," Skid Roper & Mojo Nixon