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Kevin Maher's avatar

Bulletproof

Paranoid android

Fitter happier

Climbing up the walls

Idioteque

Optimistic

There there

Scatterbrain

Glass eyes

Daydreaming

Go to sleep

Sail to the moon

Radiohead.

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

Was hoping this was La Roux and realised I was wrong. 😁

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Ahh, Radiohead! It's great to see R Day wasn't left 'High & Dry' without them! Haha... 😎

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Kevin Maher's avatar

No danger of that, cos I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo..😎

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

None of that please.

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Kevin Maher's avatar

Or ‘less of that kind of thing’ as one placard held in a protest on Craggy Island . I think they were protesting against a talent show or comedy open mic night.. but the placards were Irish sayings like ‘Down with that sort of carry on!’.. and of course, ‘less of that fun business here!’😆

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Kevin Maher's avatar

🫣🤣☝️

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Haha! 😎👍

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Lyriquediscorde's avatar

I love this. Never tried this before, but here it goes

Sixteen Blue:

I'm not sayin'

I'll be you

Go

Hold my life

Waitress in the sky

Skyline

Here comes a regular

(unsatisfied)

I'll buy

I.O.U.

Kiss me on the bus

birthday gal

Valentine

Anywhere's better than here

(songs by The Replacements)

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

Lots of travel in this one! Love it and welcome Lyriquediscord!

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Lisa Andradez's avatar

The Ramones

.

Sheena is a punk rocker

Bonzo goes to Bitburg

I just want to have something to do

Somebody put something in my drink

I wanna be sedated

Poison heart

I want to live

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

Sheena the punk rocker is back! We had her in a couple of poems last year and caused quite a stir! Happy to see she's made a re entry and not been forgotten. Thank you Lisa! "Poison heart

I want to live" are two very powerful lines!

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Kate's avatar

Yes. Just put that on repeat and keep strummin’!

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Gordon Schenck's avatar

Bonnie Raitt

My opening farewell

I need love

I believe I'm in love with you

I think about it all the time

Not cause I wanted to

I can't make you love me

I can't help you now

You gotta be ready for love

All at once

Just like that

Here come those tears again

River of tears

Cry like a rainstorm

Cry on my shoulder

Feels like rain

Can't find my way home

Too long at the fair

Let's keep it between us

When we say goodnight

Tangled and dark

Standing in the doorway

Walk out the front door

Run like a thief

Write me a few of your lines

Fool yourself

Your gonna get what's coming

Back around

The comin' round is goin' through

It's all over now, baby blue

Give it up or let me go

Nothing seems to matter

I know

Bye bye baby

I feel the same

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

So much love and pain in this one. Class act Bonnie Raitt! I can't make you love me is a masterpiece. Thank you Gordon!

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Darienne's avatar

Like Kate I went with REM today.

Around the sun

~~~~~~~~~~~~

Bittersweet me

Can’t get there from here

At my most beautiful

Dancing barefoot

All the right friends

Everyday is yours to win

Femme fatale

Crush with eyeliner

Pale blue eyes

Bang and blame

Pretty persuasion

Everybody hurts

Perfect circle

Losing my religion

Second guessing

Try not to breath

Talk about the passion

Until the day is done

Live for today

Why not smile

The one I love

You are the everything

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

These titles are just great! You build a whole story with them! Thx Darienne.

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Kate's avatar

Lovely. - lots of good material … but you’ve made it into art!

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Darienne's avatar

Thank you Kate! Both versions are equally artful.

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Theresa Greene's avatar

Ringo Starr of the Beatles

Boys,

You Know It Don't Come Easy

We All Live In a Yellow Submarine

O-Bla-Di, O-Bla-Da

Thanks, Writer Pilgrim

Finally back to writing !

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

What are you doing here Theresa? What a happy surprise! Great to have you back and love this short piece with Ringo. Happy, light and entertaining.

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Kate's avatar

R is for R.E.M.

She just wants to be

Blackbird, find the river

Nightswimming

So fast, so numb

Oh my heart

Everybody hurts

Feeling gravity's pull

High speed train

around the sun

Try not to breathe, find the river

I've been high - imitation of life

Highland fling, circus envy

bang and blame

make it all Ok,

half a world away shiny happy people belong

the worst joke ever

I don't sleep, I dream

I wanted to be wrong

Blackbird

I'll take the rain, king of birds

It's the end of the world as we know it

Disappear, find the river

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

"Find the river" indeed Kate. These titles as with Darienne's have reminded me of the poetic lyrics of REM. Need to go back and listen to these old songs of amazing art from the past. Thank you!

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Darienne's avatar

I love how we used the lyrics in such different yet artful ways.

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Marinarena's avatar

Darius Rucker songs poem:

Hold On

Sara

It Won’t Be Like This For Long

Down Here

Learn to Live

One More Night

Another Night with You

All I Want

I Will Love You Still

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

Aw!!! So many songs about Sara’s. This is beautiful and emotional. Thank you Marinarena!

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Seems a bit like a film noir voiceover this one, Haha...

RANDY CRAWFORD (Poem)

IT'S RAINING, RAINY NIGHT IN GEORGIA,

CIGARETTE IN THE RAIN,

I CAN'T GET YOU OFF MY MIND,

SAME OLD STORY,

WE HAD A LOVE SO STRONG,

I LET YOU WALK AWAY,

SOMETHING SO RIGHT,

THAT'S HOW HEARTACHES ARE MADE,

THE GLOW OF LOVE, CAN WE BRING IT BACK,

DON'T SAY IT'S OVER,

IT'S RAINING, RAINY NIGHT IN GEORGIA,

YOU BRING THE SUN OUT... 😎

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Writer Pilgrim by So Elite's avatar

This is painful and full of heartache. Goes so well with the REM song titles for some reason. Aren't they from Georgia. There's one line I wanna move to another spot... sorry I can't help it. But then I read it again and I think this is not MY song title, it's yours! It's fab!!! I wouldn't change it, it does work. The repetition works so well to change the mood somehow to something more positive. This is very lyrical Chris.

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