Lyric Poem Game

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How To Play: Put your iPod/iTunes/Spotify/Pandora/music player of some kind on shuffle, and then write the first lyric of each song that comes up. Do this for twenty songs, and you'll create a poem!

NO SKIPPING, you must use whatever song pops up no matter how silly, nonsensical, or embarrassing it makes your poem! And you must use the lyrics in the order they pop on on shuffle.

You can structure the stanzas however you want and add punctuation, or the occasional "and" or "but", but no altering of the lyrics themselves is allowed. You can end up with a pretty interesting little poem!

Alright so littleblueraccoon tagged me in this awesome looking game, so let's get to it! 

"she's got a target painted on her back, 
but i will not leave a letter
nothing at all,
my love,
i am the speed of sound.

[Take it aND take IT anD 
    tAkE it AND take iT And
        tA ke It aLL
]

you fight me and
flat on my lonely face i fell
(i don't love you, i don't need you,
i want a normal life)
this is wrong but i can't help but feel like
this is my life,
it's not what it was before
now that you're gone.
 
i don't like walking around
this old empty house--
almost heaven;
you had my heart,
and we'll never be worlds apart but
speak of the devil: 
i took a chance, i took a shot
(but holy water can't help you now)
you heard my voice miss believer,
my pretty sleeper. 

[SuNSET aNd BroaDWaY 
    are the streets i li-li-like]

you made up your mind
right before the sound
could move." 


Wow. This went far better than I had hoped. I got a lot of lyrics that went together. Pretty nifty! If anyone can guess some of the songs I used, I will do a feature especially for you! :meow: 

So yeah, I encourage all of you out there to do it. It's really fun and quite the challenge, might help out with writers block for anyone struggling. I am gonna tag some peeps though :evillaugh: BlueLionEyes Nullibicity chromeantennae introverted-ghost and Khaimin
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