Random Song Lyric Sonnet

Hey,

Sometimes, when you’re stuck behind a desk for hours on end, you make up little activities to keep yourself sane...er...amused.

This is one of those.

I call it the Random Song Lyric Sonnet.

It works like this:

As I was sitting here, I’ve been listening to iTunes, and I wrote down a single lyric from 25 of the songs that came up. Then I put all the lyrics into a bowl.

And now, I shall compose a sonnet, by drawing 15 lyrics out of the bowl. Lyric number one will be the title, the other fourteen will form the body.

Here goes:

Put On Your Nightshirt and Your Morning Gown
- By Various Artists

Got a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes hold
Never to part since the day we met, on Interstate 91
Don’t get much sympathy, hanging out the 15th floor,
But God doesn’t always have the best goddamn plans, does he?

Who is wrong? Who is right? Yellow, brown, black or white?
The wind is low. The birds will sing.
She’ll turn once more to Sunday’s clown, and cry behind the door,
Stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead.

You’re looking pretty smart in your chicken skin suit,
It’s a long way back to Germany.
There’s nothing left to life but a pair of glassy eyes,
Remind me once more where this is going, before I fling it all into the ocean.

After all the sin we had, I was hoping we’d turn back.
Now where’s the sweater you mentioned in the letter?

Huh…that’s kind of a weird one.

Hope you liked my random lyric sonnet.

Jim Out!