This is both a prayer and a punchline. That recurring “I wanna be adored” hits different each time—it’s a plea, a swagger, a soft ache, a mirror held up to self and sound. By the time it loops for the last time, it feels less like a want and more like a right.
“Little seed big tree” to “Ten storey love song”—what a rise, what a riot of longing.
This isn’t just Ian Brown’s voice—it’s yours, flaming steady through every line.
Well you re-arranged them in an order that overlayed your perception over his words and therefore gave a new frame of meaning to them, hence your meaning, won‘t you say. Yes, initially all words stay the same, and yet they loose their original context through re-arrangement and take on a new meaning through it.
It absolutely worked. The rhythm here is so clean and sure-footed, it feels like it could’ve been one of their lyrics. There’s this sharp little arc tucked inside the movement—from "Don’t lose your head" to "Original Sin" to "New sensation". It’s sleek but not hollow. It moves with meaning.
Also—there’s something really tender about "Girl on fire / Beautiful girl— / Deliver me!" That moment hit like a flash of light in the smoke.
Holy Smokes... Thank you so much. I think sometimes, the screen reader makes the words sound a bit hollow... I lose perspective somehow, especially with my own words.
Thanks, but I would love to roller skate on the bus... I used to stand, in spite of all the good people telling me to sit down, ride one stop on my feet, holding on to the bar and pretend I was surfing. I called it bus surfing. lol I'm not as brave as roller skating...
I’m glad you shared it. What you’ve created holds its own shape—more shadowed, more internal. Where Tali’s walked with swagger, yours lingers at the edge of a half-closed door.
That middle stanza—“To look at you / Heaven sent / Baby don’t cry / Meditate”—feels like someone trying to breathe through heartbreak in real time.
You’ve pulled different notes from the same catalog, and together, it’s like hearing the same voice speak two truths. Thank you for this quieter thunder.
Another great use of INXS songs! That's one of the amazing things about this Song Challenge. Even when several of us pick the same set of tracks to work with, the results are always so incredibly unique and different... 😎👍
I found one of their songs on Putumayo album, now I realise where I know them from. Thank you for this! I hadn't taken into account that the English titles were translation. I kept reading the Spanish ones. Nice one! Fantastic music.
This fella was the complete opposite of Ian Brown onstage. A force of nature. There were about a dozen Blockheads onstage, but all eyes were on Ian Dury. The influence of his work can be heard in a lot of British bands, most notably the Happy Mondays, and after that Black Grape.
Is this the third INXS? Don’t think we’ve had 3 writers chose the same band before! This is so good, you’ve picked some of the lesser known tunes and mixed them up in this fun piece! Thanks Chris.
Become You is a protest poem composed entirely from Indigo Girls song titles. I didn’t add a single word, but I didn’t need to—their titles already speak the language of resistance, of longing, of becoming.
This poem is not just about protest in the streets. It’s about the protest of staying soft in a hard world. It’s about the daily, radical act of becoming fully yourself—queer, defiant, uncertain, alive.
For me, these songs have always held more than melody. They’ve held mirrors, maps, and moments of breath when everything else was spinning. This piece carries that breath forward.
Keep what you got
I wanna be adored
I am the resurrection
F.E.A.R
This is the one
I wanna be adored
Made of stone
My star
Waterfall
Whispers
Can't see me
Dolphins were Monkeys
I wanna be adored
Little seed big tree
Ten storey love song
All ablaze
just like you
I wanna be adored
by Ian Brown
Pilgrim—
This is both a prayer and a punchline. That recurring “I wanna be adored” hits different each time—it’s a plea, a swagger, a soft ache, a mirror held up to self and sound. By the time it loops for the last time, it feels less like a want and more like a right.
“Little seed big tree” to “Ten storey love song”—what a rise, what a riot of longing.
This isn’t just Ian Brown’s voice—it’s yours, flaming steady through every line.
Thanks for letting it blaze
Thx Wild, this is Ian's voice! I played around with the titles and wouldn't think of them as my voice.
Well you re-arranged them in an order that overlayed your perception over his words and therefore gave a new frame of meaning to them, hence your meaning, won‘t you say. Yes, initially all words stay the same, and yet they loose their original context through re-arrangement and take on a new meaning through it.
As a reader you may add on your interpretation and that is not necessarily reflecting the intention of the creator.
Excellent! 😎👍
Love the weaving of “wanna be adored” through the narrative 🙌🏻
Thank you Darienne for seeing that. I hadn't thought of it that way. It's a title I wouldn't have connected with this artist. But there it goes!
Wasn't sure it would work, but hopefully, it did... Here is a tribute to InXS. (Yes I know, obvious for the 80's kid... Oh well, what can I do? lol)
Don't lose your head.
Just keep walking.
Learn to smile.
Kick,
Mystify,
Mediate.
Here comes
Just a man,
Elegantly wasted.
Girl on fire,
Beautiful girl--
Deliver me!
Heaven sent
Original sin.
This time,
New sensation.
This is one of your best! You’ve put these together so beautifully!
Thank you so much :) X
Tali—
It absolutely worked. The rhythm here is so clean and sure-footed, it feels like it could’ve been one of their lyrics. There’s this sharp little arc tucked inside the movement—from "Don’t lose your head" to "Original Sin" to "New sensation". It’s sleek but not hollow. It moves with meaning.
Also—there’s something really tender about "Girl on fire / Beautiful girl— / Deliver me!" That moment hit like a flash of light in the smoke.
Holy Smokes... Thank you so much. I think sometimes, the screen reader makes the words sound a bit hollow... I lose perspective somehow, especially with my own words.
Another 80s kid here, great choice, I also picked INXS but I love what you've done here!!
Thank you and high five :) Can't wait to read yours. X
That is really beautiful! Whereas my INXS poem was just about roller skating on a bus. Haha... 😎
Thanks, but I would love to roller skate on the bus... I used to stand, in spite of all the good people telling me to sit down, ride one stop on my feet, holding on to the bar and pretend I was surfing. I called it bus surfing. lol I'm not as brave as roller skating...
Oh, it worked Tali🫶🏻
Thank you my friend X
Agh I picked INXS but I see it's been done, mines different though, is it still allowed??
INXS
.
Need you tonight
By my side
Original sin
Devil inside
.
New sensation
Mystify
Bitter tears
Guns in the sky
.
To look at you
Heaven sent
Baby don't cry
Meditate
.
Beautiful girl
Elegantly wasted
Suicide blonde
Just keep walking
What a heartbreaker! This is good, Lisa! I'm laughing all the way. So different from Tali's and both so amazing.
Yes, it's allowed!
Wow! Love what you did here. Really excellent.
Thank you 😊
It’s excellent. Well done!
Love the different dynamic you and Tali both brought to INXS. Can feel Michael “sliding over here”😜
Absolutely! And we may have to "give him a moment"... To take in the brilliance of it all! Haha... 😎
He “needs THEM tonight” for sure 😂😂
Haha... 😎👍
Lisa—
I’m glad you shared it. What you’ve created holds its own shape—more shadowed, more internal. Where Tali’s walked with swagger, yours lingers at the edge of a half-closed door.
That middle stanza—“To look at you / Heaven sent / Baby don’t cry / Meditate”—feels like someone trying to breathe through heartbreak in real time.
You’ve pulled different notes from the same catalog, and together, it’s like hearing the same voice speak two truths. Thank you for this quieter thunder.
Another great use of INXS songs! That's one of the amazing things about this Song Challenge. Even when several of us pick the same set of tracks to work with, the results are always so incredibly unique and different... 😎👍
Okay, this is a slightly reworked version of something submitted last year. I imagined it as a conversation. Child to father, then father to child.
IRAKERE
Feliz compleanos
El tata
Ciento anos de juventad
Este camino largo
Lo que va a pasar
Por Romper el Loco
Bailando asi
Gira Gira
Baila mi ritmo
Que se sepa yo soy de la Habana
El volcan del caribe
Happy birthday
Dad
One hundred years of youth
This long road
What's going to happen
To break the crazy
Dancing like this
Spin spin
Dance my rhythm
Let it be known I am from Havana
The volcano of the caribbean
This is beautiful work and live that you out the titles en Español!
The original titles are Spanish as Irakere is a Cuban jazz group. Yheir music is 1uite danceable
I found one of their songs on Putumayo album, now I realise where I know them from. Thank you for this! I hadn't taken into account that the English titles were translation. I kept reading the Spanish ones. Nice one! Fantastic music.
Love both the translation and the melody of the original words. Says so much...
Love this in Spanish and in English - it just WORKS🙌🏻
You’re the why
I could lie
It ain’t cool
I believe
This is what we find
Waiting for your taxi
Reasons to be cheerful
Common as muck
Hit me with your rhythm stick
Sex & Drugs & Rock an’ Roll
Wake up and make love
Ballad of the sulphate strangler
Ian Dury
Lovely! You couldn’t get away from Ian today!
This fella was the complete opposite of Ian Brown onstage. A force of nature. There were about a dozen Blockheads onstage, but all eyes were on Ian Dury. The influence of his work can be heard in a lot of British bands, most notably the Happy Mondays, and after that Black Grape.
INXS (Poem)
ROLLER SKATING,
ON A BUS,
NIGHT OF REBELLION,
ROLLER SKATING,
ON A BUS,
ELEGANTLY WASTED,
LIKE IT OR NOT,
HERE COMES, THE STAIRS,
WE ARE THROWN TOGETHER,
SAME DIRECTION,
HEAR THAT SOUND, ALL AROUND,
"DOCTOR...!" 🚌😎🚌
Is this the third INXS? Don’t think we’ve had 3 writers chose the same band before! This is so good, you’ve picked some of the lesser known tunes and mixed them up in this fun piece! Thanks Chris.
I is for Icehouse
Girl in the moon
My obsession
Shaking’ the cage
Hey little girl
Baby you’re so strange
Break these chains
Someone like you
Taking the town
Crazy
Regular boys
Cross the border
Nothing too serious
Love in motion
Anybody’s war
No promises
One by one
Over the line
Heartbreak kid
Too late now
Into the wild
Great southern land
Become You is a protest poem composed entirely from Indigo Girls song titles. I didn’t add a single word, but I didn’t need to—their titles already speak the language of resistance, of longing, of becoming.
This poem is not just about protest in the streets. It’s about the protest of staying soft in a hard world. It’s about the daily, radical act of becoming fully yourself—queer, defiant, uncertain, alive.
For me, these songs have always held more than melody. They’ve held mirrors, maps, and moments of breath when everything else was spinning. This piece carries that breath forward.
It rises, like we do.
—Jay
🌿 Become You
A Protest Poem in Indigo Girls Song Titles
Hammer and a Nail
World Falls
Watershed
Come On Home
Kid Fears
Cold Beer and Remote Control
Everything in Its Own Time
Shame on You
Closer to Fine
The Wood Song
Tether
Trouble
It's Alright
Go
Fugitive
Become You
Dead Man’s Hill
Virginia Woolf
Salty South
Land of Canaan
Our Deliverance
Let It Be Me
Power of Two
Free in You
Lay My Head Down
Second Time Around
All That We Let In
Dairy Queen
Change My Heart
Ghost
Country Radio
What Are You Like
Get Out the Map
Devotion
Fill It Up Again
Come a Long Way
Pendulum Swinger
Rise Up
Become You
Beautiful!
It’s a poem, it’s a story, it’s a life. “Dairy Queen
Change my heart” . Boom 💥
Thank you Darienne, it seemed fitting in telling a story.
One of These Days
Ain’t No Sunshine
Here Comes The Rain Again
At Last!
Don't Let It Bring You Down
A Change Is Gonna Come
I Wish I Would Know How
At Last,
God Only Knows
SongTitles af Ida Sand
📜 Poem af bARdisT LennArrrt (image: ❌ Grok³)
🎧 (with 1 bonus track)
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2PTFqudonFQr2sSwa6tRC6?si=RKg3WMlbSw2ZFPdM4_8eSQ
This was confusing! You're trying to trick us with this one... Beach boys, Eurythmics, Etta James, Bill Withers and so on.
😁
... but still all of the songs are on Ida's 💿albums
And so they are.
Vibing off the rhythm stick of the late, great Ian Dury today!!
.
.
THE RIGHT PEOPLE
*******
Game on
*
Clever Trevor
My old man
Common as muck
Bus drivers prayer
Have a word
*******
Mischief
*
Billericay Dickie
Razzle in my pocket
That’s enough of that
Itinerant child
Hey, hey take me away
*******
Pardon
*
Mash it up Harry
Blackmail man
Fly in the ointment
Crippled with nerves
What a waste
*******
One love
*
Plaistow Patricia
Waiting for your taxi
Rough kids
Your horoscope
No such thing as love
*******
Apples
*
Sweet Gene Vincent
Bit of kit
You’ll see glimpses
Tell the children
Don’t ask me
*******
Wake up
*
Jack shit George
Sink my boats
Dance of the screamers
Quick quick slow
This is what we find
"There ain't half been some clever bastards" Yes, some Essex vibes too! What a great lyricist he was too. Thank you Darienne!
One of the greats! Hope I got that Essex vibe right.
I wouldn’t know for sure🤣
I’ve only just now read your piece. It’s great!
Just after I had pressed send on my own based on his terrific work. Loved this, geez!
Loved yours too🫶🏻