Me, Me!

[redhillian]

MEME
01. Put your music player on shuffle
02. The first lines of twenty songs = a poem; the first line of the twenty-first song is the title.



I was a highwayman.

I closed my eyes,
I'm the invisible man.
Steve walks warily down the street,
The machine of a dream.

I've got so much love I don't know where to put it,
Looks like an emergency.
It's a lot like life,
I'm over it.

The needle on my record player has been wearing thin,
Oh yeah she was taking me over.
They tell you everything,
You're not ready for the world outside.

Remember when you walked into my life all dressed up in leather,
One more day down.
Hey little kitty with your tail dragging on the floor,
Korah Matah Korah Rahtahmah.

She says it's cold outside as she hands me my raincoat,
This is where the party ends.
She lures you in with intention,
You remind me of the babe.

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[masati.livejournal.com]

Like a flower

Калинка, калинка, калинка моя! В саду ягода малинка, малинка моя!
We met in a place I used to go
Dive in, and show your depth
It's another Tequila Sunrise
I'll remember you

I thought I saw a man brought to life
When a merry maiden marries
Feelin' tired
When you're up there on your own
The prettiest thing

Ginger Elvis Presley looks a fraction sad
You were right, and I don't want to be here
I waited 'till I saw the sun
He was a hard-headed man
Every day's the same, I feel that much

Just a little music in the night
And I wonder if I am ever going to feel the same
When maiden loves she sits and sighs
Three little maids from school are we
Oh I find much simple pleasure


(The first line translates as "Little snowberry, snowberry of mine in the garden, raspberry, little raspberry of mine" apparently. There were plenty of musical interludes as well...)

[mapp.livejournal.com]

My Love Is Bigger Than Your Love

I can ride my bike with no handlebars,
how come I end up where I started?
Life on a matress in a room.
Magicians - Don Camero's lost his mind!
There are angels in your angles.

Got it today,
Thirty seconds 'til the end of the world.
Sorry for the set back.
Say your name.
Alright then, picture this if you will.

There's a little girl on my mind,
do you know what it's like to fall on the floor
and now, let's begin to type some words,
well high school seemed like such a blur.
Just talked to this girl.

I was high on a molatov of cocktails,
where are all the stupid people from?
Dance the cultists in their folly,
Possesions never meant anything to me.
Some say the end is near.

[lucian-albrecht.livejournal.com]

Come As You Are²

I've known for a long time, the kind of girl you are,
Ive been made blue, Ive been lied to,
Here comes johnny singing oldies, goldies,
I think I'm sophisticated.

Papa I know you're going to be upset¹,
I started this,
An old man turned ninety-eight,
I think I'll go on a walkabout.

You'll remember me when the west wind moves,
Your eyes are burning holes through me.
Once I had a love and it was a gas,
Kickin stones on an old dirt road.

I'm gonna leave Texarkana,
It's not cold enough.
Looking for your face where it could never be.
I had a dream last night

There's nothing you can do to turn me away,
I found a picture of your smiling face.
Tonight I'm gonna have myself a real good time
Hide away boys you're no longer in favour.



1. Sorry. Really, I'm quiet ashamed
2. Which is also the title of Song #21 (well #22 actually, I skipped an instrumental)

This takes FAR too long when half of your music is in foreign...

[midnightoak.livejournal.com]

Man, It's a Hot One

I look into the window of my mind
A tous mes loupés, mes ratés, mes vrais soleils*
Varje gång du rör mej**

The fox went out on a chilly night
Oh Where have you been all the day?

Condamnés!***

Well you say your daddy is a real cool dude
I'm shameless

Je te laisse un sifflet****
En haut de la rue St-Denis*****

Libérés#

For you to think of me
J'étais un homme heureux avant de te connaître##
Don't give up
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene###

OoooooOOOOOoooOOO¹ Death
Go to sleep my little baby...
One evening as the sun went down
As I went down in the river to pray
The other night dear



Well clearly a four line stanza was never going to work for my songs so I went with where the sense took me. Not bad really, although it started going weird when I switched back to English, not with the foreign, go figure.



*At all my mistakes, my misses and my true sunshine
**Every time you touch me
***Condemned (pl. noun)
****I leave you a whistle (the next line is "so you can call me"
*****At the end of St-Denis road
#Liberated! (pl. noun)
##I was a happy man before I knew you
###I have at least two versions of this one...
¹That's how he sings it!

Re: This takes FAR too long when half of your music is in foreign...

[midnightoak.livejournal.com]

I should have explained that I vetoed songs by the same singer, but not from a compilation album, or in the case of most but not all of the French, a soundtrack. It was sheer fluke that I got the Condamne AND Libere songs :)