Instructions: Put your iTunes collection 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. (Christin's House Rule: it's okay to change verb tenses and original intended punctuation.)
Help Me: I Think I'm Falling (In Love [Again])
Nora says I don't love her (the way she wants to be loved) -
"I need your love, babe!"
You think that I can't live without your love? You'll see
two dozen other dirty lovers!
(You're doing everything that people said to.)
Closing time:
"If you ever plan to motor west,
I'll draw the whole world and separate everything.
God damn! It's a joke that you never forget."
I was at my weakest state and you kept me pushing on.
I never walk when I can run -
no more Mister Nice Guy.
(When the night was still,
I opened my eyes when you were kissing me.)
"Caramba caracho, ein whiskey!"
When I went to your town on the wide-open shore,
there were needles in the evening air.
"Have you ever been close to tragedy?"
"Oi, lienda, bella che fa?"
"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?"
Help Me: I Think I'm Falling (In Love [Again])
Nora says I don't love her (the way she wants to be loved) -
"I need your love, babe!"
You think that I can't live without your love? You'll see
two dozen other dirty lovers!
(You're doing everything that people said to.)
Closing time:
"If you ever plan to motor west,
I'll draw the whole world and separate everything.
God damn! It's a joke that you never forget."
I was at my weakest state and you kept me pushing on.
I never walk when I can run -
no more Mister Nice Guy.
(When the night was still,
I opened my eyes when you were kissing me.)
"Caramba caracho, ein whiskey!"
When I went to your town on the wide-open shore,
there were needles in the evening air.
"Have you ever been close to tragedy?"
"Oi, lienda, bella che fa?"
"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?"

Comments
Joni Mitchell - Help Me
Long Winters - Nora
Beatles - Eight Days a Week
Madonna - You'll See
English Beat - Save It For Later
Harvey Danger - Cream and Bastards Rise
Semisonic - Closing Time
Manhattan Transfer - Route 66
Bound Stems - APPI
Bound Stems - My Kingdom For a Trundle Bed
Dropkick Murphys - Surrender
Footloose Soundtrack - I Can't Stand Still
They Might Be Giants - Why Must I Be Sad
Charlotte Church - Dream a Dream (I really have no idea why/how I have this)
Fiona Apple - Parting Gift
Heino - Caramba Caracho, Ein Whiskey!
Dar Williams - The Ocean
So Many Dynamos - How High the Moon
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get
Jack Johnson - Belle
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody