Aside from food, music is another constant in my life. It is fair to say that I have a wide selection of music, and enjoy listening to it all. I like good beats, I love the lyrics, I like music composition. Music can move us in many ways. It can be encouraging, it can be energetic, it can even make us cry. I thought I would be a little creative and do a song mash up poem. The following are lyrics taken from some of my favorite songs. Each line, represents a line in a song. My organization format is as follows: I set up three parts, beginning, middle and end and filled it with the different lines. Then I went into each part, beginning, middle and end and arranged each of those parts in the same manner. I guess there is some organization to the randomness of the lyrics. I tried to make it rhyme if possible.
The artists: Tom Petty, Marvin Gaye, Kanye West featuring Jay-Z and Ivy, J.J. Grey and Mofro, John Lennon, Neil Young, Cyndi Lauper, Interpol, The Wallflowers. Elvis, A-ha, Alphaville, U2, Old Crowe Medicine Show, Lynard Skynard, Violent Femmes, Stevie Nicks, Alanis Morissette.
I did not make up any of these lines, they are all taken directly from the songs, my only doing is the extraction of the lines from different songs and arranging them in some order. So please artists, don't sue me.
And the town lit up and the world got still.
We are all here for a reason on a particular path.
Imagine all the people living for today.
An old man turned ninety-eight he won the lottery and died the next day.
You don't need a curriculum to know that you are part of the math.
Oh be something you love and understand.
I want to live, I want to give,I've been a miner for a heart of gold.
I'm free but I'm focused.
I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings, coming down is the hardest thing
A sea was stormin' inside of me.
I believe in everything from a river running backwards to a bee when it stings.
Don't be cruel to a heart that's true.
Tell them now your pleasure's set upon slow-release.
That's why I expose my soul to the globe.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Well they said she died easy of a broken heart disease.
You belong among the wild flowers.
I want to be the one to walk in the sun.
I'm green but I'm wise.
A childhood imagination, has been my salvation.
My rhythmatic regimen navigates melodic notes for your soul and your mental.
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife.
I'm high as a kite, I may just stop to check you out.
So needless to say, I'm odds and ends.
I'm a heaven-sent instrument.
Troubles will come and they will pass.
Have you come here to play Jesus, to the lepers in your head?
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late.
But it's the little things; the little things, not expectation, that make life worth living.
The future looks bright ahead.
Hey, come on try a little, nothing is forever.
Oh take your time, don't live to fast.
The love you give to me will free me.
It's a free ride when you've already paid.
Let it been known that God's penmanship has been signed with a language called love.
Cause I've got one hand in my pocket and the other one is giving the peace sign.
And don't forget son there is someone up above.
How many songs do you recognize?
