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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

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

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Wild Lion*esses Pride from Jay's avatar

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

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

Thx Wild, this is Ian's voice! I played around with the titles and wouldn't think of them as my voice.

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Wild Lion*esses Pride from Jay's avatar

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.

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

As a reader you may add on your interpretation and that is not necessarily reflecting the intention of the creator.

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Excellent! 😎👍

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Darienne's avatar

Love the weaving of “wanna be adored” through the narrative 🙌🏻

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

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!

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Tali Sarnetzky's avatar

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.

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

This is one of your best! You’ve put these together so beautifully!

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Tali Sarnetzky's avatar

Thank you so much :) X

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Wild Lion*esses Pride from Jay's avatar

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.

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Tali Sarnetzky's avatar

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.

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Lisa Andradez's avatar

Another 80s kid here, great choice, I also picked INXS but I love what you've done here!!

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Tali Sarnetzky's avatar

Thank you and high five :) Can't wait to read yours. X

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

That is really beautiful! Whereas my INXS poem was just about roller skating on a bus. Haha... 😎

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Tali Sarnetzky's avatar

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...

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Darienne's avatar

Oh, it worked Tali🫶🏻

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Tali Sarnetzky's avatar

Thank you my friend X

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Lisa Andradez's avatar

Agh I picked INXS but I see it's been done, mines different though, is it still allowed??

INXS

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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

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

What a heartbreaker! This is good, Lisa! I'm laughing all the way. So different from Tali's and both so amazing.

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

Yes, it's allowed!

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Tali Sarnetzky's avatar

Wow! Love what you did here. Really excellent.

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Lisa Andradez's avatar

Thank you 😊

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Kevin Maher's avatar

It’s excellent. Well done!

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Darienne's avatar

Love the different dynamic you and Tali both brought to INXS. Can feel Michael “sliding over here”😜

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Absolutely! And we may have to "give him a moment"... To take in the brilliance of it all! Haha... 😎

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Darienne's avatar

He “needs THEM tonight” for sure 😂😂

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Haha... 😎👍

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Wild Lion*esses Pride from Jay's avatar

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.

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

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... 😎👍

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Gordon Schenck's avatar

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

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

This is beautiful work and live that you out the titles en Español!

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Gordon Schenck's avatar

The original titles are Spanish as Irakere is a Cuban jazz group. Yheir music is 1uite danceable

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

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.

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Tali Sarnetzky's avatar

Love both the translation and the melody of the original words. Says so much...

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Darienne's avatar

Love this in Spanish and in English - it just WORKS🙌🏻

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Kevin Maher's avatar

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

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

Lovely! You couldn’t get away from Ian today!

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Kevin Maher's avatar

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.

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

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...!" 🚌😎🚌

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

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.

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Kate's avatar

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

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Wild Lion*esses Pride from Jay's avatar

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

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

Beautiful!

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Darienne's avatar

It’s a poem, it’s a story, it’s a life. “Dairy Queen

Change my heart” . Boom 💥

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Wild Lion*esses Pride from Jay's avatar

Thank you Darienne, it seemed fitting in telling a story.

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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

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

This was confusing! You're trying to trick us with this one... Beach boys, Eurythmics, Etta James, Bill Withers and so on.

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LennArrrt's avatar

😁

... but still all of the songs are on Ida's 💿albums

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

And so they are.

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Darienne's avatar

Vibing off the rhythm stick of the late, great Ian Dury today!!

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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

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

"There ain't half been some clever bastards" Yes, some Essex vibes too! What a great lyricist he was too. Thank you Darienne!

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Darienne's avatar

One of the greats! Hope I got that Essex vibe right.

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

I wouldn’t know for sure🤣

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Kevin Maher's avatar

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!

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Darienne's avatar

Loved yours too🫶🏻

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