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Dreams Music Playlist Poetry

Please Don’t | A Playlist Poem

Please Don’t Make Me Worse
A Poem in 50 Songs

Runtime: 3h 8min

It won’t be long now
before you make me worse
we work
                 with young blood
helicopter hearts
                         too close
dancing tango del fuego
                       imagining …
when your heart stops beating
you watch my booty swing
 which has you thinking nasty things
like  Voy a tocarte toa’

and to me?
       you’re just a dream
                 one I contemplate all night
es un secreto que no lo dire
                          with a brimful of asha
I yield to this moment of surrender
                  awake, you’re a daydream
    & I admit it’s been a long time
since I’ve felt a higher devotion
   since I’ve felt sunshine on my skin
since I’ve been ready to fall
right here, right now
           everything changed

Not sure if I’ve got a fever
             or if I’ve got a man on my mind
but surely love is the drug
                                to make me feel fine
not black coffee and cigarettes
      now is not the time to hasten death

I always knew
              how to get it faster
in this state of flux
                        but in the end
              grandpa’s groove
like Cobrastyle
    is the bad touch

If you’ve ever wondered
       how to be a heartbreaker like me
don’t bother –
                                 the halo I wear
is just a dream
              I’m sunny and sweet,
                                       a candy girl
round like the moon
               lonely too, so please,
                     my darling be home soon

Don’t let me be your bad habit
                        (or make you worse)

gun to my head
                          I admit I’m overkill
    wondering if you’ll survive a wolf like me
with dread, let’s dance to joy division
            when all my heroes are tired, I say
I wanna dance with somebody like you instead

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Playlist Poetry Saturday Expressions

Hard to Swallow: A Playlist Poem Adjacent | Session 17

Hard to Swallow
A Poem dependent upon 15 songs

Runtime: 59min

I’ve to remind myself
       how I feel has nothing to do
            with what I can see now
                  for what I see does not function
to produce such un peace
       yet here it arises as if
            I were heroin-deficient
my mind chiming
                 you make me feel
                 you make me feel

and          how I hate to hear that lonesome
whistle blow
              knowing       it’s our time to
go       100, 500, 900 miles
from            wisdom, further away as
uncontrolled                  desire blooms,
wounds, pierces all the wrong places,
                births desperation, debases

a toxin edged along the blade
                    a goddamn shame
slit wrists, caught in the undertow
cold as sorrow      I can’t breathe
       I’ll drown you with me
steeped attachment       deep
       & tormented       held tightly
to my weak mind
       I’m not alright

I wished it wouldn’t happen
       but here the karma ripened
              and I found it hard

didya think it’d be easy?
              if it was easy, everybody’d do it too
don’t be the fool & certainly
                     don’t give up
don’t let me steal this moment from you       
now       get through the messy muck
       and find relief, in faithful peace
                     grasping’s           release

but      in ignorance, more so
            tell me that you won’t let go

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Playlist Poetry Saturday Expressions

Visions | Session 8

Visions
A Poem in 27 Songs

Runtime: 1hr 49min

I keep waiting to
See You Again
walking into
The Place That I Work

If I Hated You
I’d be
Happier Than Ever
to see
You’re Not Standing Like You Used To
but I don’t

In Sleep
you become
Something Strange
and I dream
The Road Ahead is Golden
I dream you’re
Elvis
13
times

When I’m Alone,
Stoned and Alone
or
Staring at the Sun
or 
When the Night is Over
Almost Everything
reminds me of you
has me
Running Home to You
begging you to be my 
Savior

yet you’re running away:
So Human of You
to want to go back to
The Night We Met

while I want
Nothing Else
but to dance in
The Kitchen
the feeling
Comes and Goes in Waves
so I put my 
Heart in a Cage

Letting Go
I’m protected from
Fallin’

Up Here
I’m protected from the
Fire and the Flood

for you’re a
Pyro
and my heart is tinder

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Playlist Poetry Saturday Expressions

Lavender Blue | Session 7

Lavender Blue:
A Poem in 30 Songs

Runtime: 1hr 41min

this one’s
for that
Time of the Season
when I get sad, a
Season Suite: Late Winter, Early Spring
singing I’m
Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)
sometimes feeling silly (silly)

You Are My Sunshine
at the time of year when sunshine is rare

I hum
Kiss the Girl – From “The Little Mermaid”
and
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
drinking
Scotch and Soda
watching the
Early Morning Rain
it never gets that cold ‘round here
just so very (very) grey

I met a
Wayfaring Stranger
on a
Saturday Night at the Movies
before saying 
Adieu
he asked
Is That All There Is?

I still see the
Colours
of his
Morning Nightcap
hear his morning
Bird Song
smell
The Wild Mountain Thyme
outside his door
feel the
Boots of Spanish Leather
a gift, before the dance
The Lovers’ Waltz Duet
and
8 Humoresques, Opus 101
[whispering in a foreign tongue]
Poco lento e grazioso

now, I see
The Gathering of Spirits
when I go
Down to the River to Pray
hearing
Tennessee Waltz
in my mind, asking

Where Have All the Average People Gone?
where has he gone?

though I
Keep on the Sunny Side
I think
I’ll Fly Away
Across the Great Divide

to find
The Yellow Rose of Texas

I Love 
Anyone Who Knows What Love Is

and still
No Other Love
will do 

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Holiday Cheer Music Playlist

12 Days of Christmas | Song 12

Happy Twelve Days of Christmas! A Christmas Countdown featuring my Christmas favourites (plus pictures of my foster kittens).

Merry Christmas! The day is finally here! Although these songs have been arranged in no particular order, I did save one of my most fun and perhaps religiously relevant songs for this special and holy twelfth day.

Introducing – if you’re not already familiar – the spectacular Christmas with Boney M. with one of my all time favourites, Mary’s Boy Child.

Follow up this bop of a holiday jam with When a Child is Born and Feliz Navidad to keep the party going. I remember rocking out to Feliz Navidad with my elementary school choir at the late Colonel John Butler School (which became Virgil Old Colony Christian School – what a name!).

Find my Twelve Days of Christmas Songs Playlist here with the bonus New Year’s themed Diana Krall song.

Grace & Frankie wish you, your friends, and family the most wonderful Christmas, holiday season a Happy New Year!

Find my full Christmas Playlist on Spotify here.

Find my full Winter Playlist on Spotify here.

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Playlist Poetry Saturday Expressions

Take a Gamble | Session 6

Take a Gamble:
A Poem in 21 Songs

Runtime: 1hr 18min

Lucky Day
let’s play

Truth
or
DARE

I took you for
The Gambler

if you can
Jump into the Fire
we’ll pretend

I Feel Lucky
so
Dare Me

Ain’t it funny
in my
Impossible Dream 
I’ll be asking
How D’ya Like Your Eggs in the Morning?
and you sing your reply 
Yes, We have no Bananas

All Your Yeahs
with
Burning Love

inspire
Enlightenment

but

The Truth 
is
You Can’t Always Get What You Want

un
Lucky

It’s a Sin
to 
Pass Me By

why not
Pawn it All
instead?

you’re still gamblin’
Lucky You
I bet.

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Playlist Poetry

Your Playlist

Your Playlist:
A Poem in 80 Songs

Runtime: 5 hr 10 min

Do you think about me often?
Like I’m a 
Hex Girl?

Lucky You
because I
Diga, Diga, Doo
too
How I’d like to do 
The Jitterbug Waltz
with you

Unchain My Heart
Spellbinder
I find your voice
Super Good

Tonight in the Moonlight
I Hope You Dance
Dog Trot
Dip It Low
and even
Lose Control
with me

we’re 
Very Busy People
part of this
Nowhere Generation
Cherry Picking
On The Banks Of The Owichita

In Another Life
I think we were
Up and Rolling
I think we enjoyed
A Quiet Life
by the 
Riverside
maybe on
Such a Night
I was your
Gypsy Queen
you, a
Wayfaring Stranger
melting my
Stonecold
heart

are you the
House of My Soul?
because
The Truth
is that your
Spring Fashion
is in 
Perfect Harmony
with my
Taste

I felt I could be
The Yellow Rose of Texas
but then the mournful soul that sang
Tennessee Waltz
(It was Patti Page)
because you already had
Too Many Friends
Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm of The War Drums

while I was
Running Up That Hill
yearning for a 
Higher Devotion
thinking
How Do I Get There
thinking I’m a
Bad Liar
thinking I can’t
Stop Thinking About You
even
Dreaming of You
nothing 
Quite Like
anything I’ve felt before

at
Bedtime
with a 
Mind on Fire
thoughts of you
Tearing Me Up
making me want to
Ruin Your Night
too, for making me
Think It Over
think that it was
Signals
for me, but it was just
Scotch and Soda
for you

I was a
Girl from the North Country
wandering, wondering
Where Have All the Average People Gone
not the one with
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes

so when I feel this
Ghost Pressure
I call you
Troubleman
wondering
What Else Is There?
wondering is this the
Wrong Vibration

I
Got It Bad
and you’re
Making Me Nervous
because
I Got it Bad And That Ain’t Good
so I picture you saying
None Shall Pass
and the beg my 
Fatal Fantasies 
of you
Fade Away

knowing just the same
I’ll See You in My Dreams
In the Early Morning Rain
with your 
Slow Hand

and I 
Dream in the Dark
that I’m
Chainsmoking
Your Love
as if it’s the only way to
Stay Alive
and I’m
Beggin 
Think About Me 
Turn Your Love
to me

in 
The Land of the Silver Birch
we’ll 
Moondance
Tonight
Wasted

until I 
Fade Into You
until the
Evening Star
is
Fallin’
For You
too

and I know I’m 
Falling for U
too, thinking
I Fall in Love too Easily

With You