Minisode 39: Lyrics 10 – The Pico de Gallo of Poetry

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Lyrics by Chrissy Schreiber:

Blueberry Wine, to the tune of Finally // Beautiful Stranger by Halsey

Your sweet lips taste like sugarcane
And blueberry wine
And I wonder if you love me
Or just love my time
‘Cause I would stay forever
With your hand in mine
And you tell me if
I’ve crossed a line

On My Knees, to the tune of Sudden Desire by Hayley Williams

Something is aflame in me
Come feel my needs and feel my needs
He lies and I agree
I’m just tryna make him see
Footloose and fancy-free
Don’t make me beg down on my knees
One place for you in me
And I’m just tryna make him see

Ex-Lovers, to the tune of Francis Forever by Mitski

I hate to see your face before me
You’re crying crocodile tears
I taste the bunch of burnt up roses
I lit the day you left me here

Baby blue, we said I do
When the world was bright and new, now
I stand by while you miss your cue
In the life we knew too

Lyrics by Jacquie Burckley

To the tune of This Time Tomorrow by the Kinks

If you were a fern, the sun would stop shining
Your growth and your glow would slowly start declining
If you were a fern, the rain would stop falling
You’d whither from thirst and your seeds left crawling

You’re detached from your soil
Alone with the weeds
The only thing that can save you
is attention to prayer beads

To the tune of Teardrop by Massive Attack

Minor dragon spits
Pink confetti
Dangle paper moons
Floating freely,
Higher and quiet
Dangle paper moons
Shoebox river under
Paper moons

Dizzy dreams,
Dreamy cartoons
Dangle paper moons
Dreamy cartoons
Dangle paper moons
Shoebox river under
Paper moons

To the tune of Way Down in the Hole by Tom Waits

Can you tell from the look in our eyes
You’re circling the drain
By your side we agonize
I’ll be honest it’s a bit of a strain
The sun will rise again
No more bated breath
Nothin’ left for tired men
But a hasty run to death

Stumbling to our place
To the end of our world
Soon gone without a trace
The ringing nothing unfurled
Though in her heart she hides the key
We can’t beat Goliath
Nothin’ left for you and me
But a hasty run to death