Music meme

[bruceb]

Courtesy of Michelle Lyons, "Put your songs on shuffle. Write down the first line of the first twenty songs as a poem." Okay, I can do that.

I've been waiting for so long
In the year of thirty-nine

Nous somnes du soleil

Every day my metal friend
I've heard of unfaithful lovers but this is outrageous
It's not the heat, it's the inhumanity

Climbing up on Solsbury Hill
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane
Justice to the left of you
Sex jibe husband murders wife
Another piece of freedom gone
In a violent place we call our country
A hand held over a candle in angst fuelled bravado

{instrumental}

Böses Mädchen
Within myself
See them standing in the foothills
Sometimes I feel like I'm the loneliest of all creatures in the universe
He was a poet, a dreamer
A man in my shoes runs a light

1: "New Song", Howard Jones
2: "39", Queen
3: "Ritual/Nous Somnes du Soleil", Yes
4: "Living in the Plastic Age", the Buggles
5: "Romeo and Jane", Tonio K.
6: "Ceiling Unlimited", Rush
7: "Solsbury Hill", Peter Gabriel (as covered by Erasure)
8: "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)", R.E.M.
9: "Hold On", Yes
10: "New Dress", Depeche Mode
11: "In Babylon", Planet P Project
12: "Cloudy Now", Blackfield
13: "Slainte Mhath", Marillion
14: "Retropolis", the Flower Kings
15: "Schwarze Witwe", Eisbrecher
16: "Recurring Dream", Crowded House
17: "Vengeance (The Pact)", Blue Oyster Cult
18: "Loneliest of Creatures", Klaatu
19: "Wait a Lifetime", Mr. Mister
20: "Ghost in You", the Psychedelic Furs