Pete Wentz poetry meme

[dira]

Gacked from slodwick, the "Be Pete Wentz" Poetry Meme works thusly:

1. Put your music player of choice on shuffle.
2. The first lines of twenty songs = a poem; the first line of the twenty-first song is the title.

For bonus points, see how many sources you recognize!


It's Gonna Be Too Hot to Breathe Today

You say you want diamonds on a ring of gold
You could be happy and I won't know
Morning is almost here - let it wait

I think I saw you riding in a car,
You were the mother who said to her child, "You bring it up slowly"
I've tried but I couldn't find any warning of you, dear
It's the tearing sound of love-notes

I left your house this morning about a quarter after nine
Me debunk an American myth?
Boats ease into the harbor bearing real suspicious cargo

My life is brilliant
There's a dark problem today, as always
I just wanted to leave you this

There will be no kisses tonight
Don't wanna wait till tomorrow
Sundown in the Paris of the prairies
It wasn't what we planned

I broke free on a Saturday morning
A small Jean Genie snuck off to the city
In our days we will live


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Comments

[izzady]

Yeah, hey, I don't know why I didn't think to comment here instead.

I'm still new to the whole Mountain Goats thing, so I haven't heard the other two. I shall have to look them up.

What's "Sundown of Paris of the praries" from? Someone from Winnipeg, I'm assuming...

[dira]

No worries! :) "Lovecraft in Brooklyn" is on their second-most-recent album, Heretic Pride. "The Young Thousands" is on We Shall All Be Healed.

It's the Tragically Hip-- they're from Kingston, near Toronto, but the song, "Wheat Kings," is about David Milgaard.