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Old 05-07-2010, 12:01 PM
lissener lissener is offline
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Write a new verse for "I Get a Kick Out of You"--or, Where does your mind go on YOUR commute?

Stopping by a drugstore for a caffeine drink between buses this morning, I was treated to The Voice descending from on high (speakers in the ceiling): "I get no kick from Champaaaaaaagne . . . " and found myself infested with a hell of an earworm. Naturally this evolved into an attempt to come up with my own verses:

Some get a kick from Rogaine
I wouldn't care
If I ran out of hair
I would just wear
A toupee or two
Cuz I get a kick out of you

Some folks can't kick Mary Jane
They just go broke
Living from smoke to toke
Man it ain't no joke
You know it's true
But I get a kick out of you
So where's yours? Here's the rules:
  • First line includes the word "kick," and rhymes with "Champagne/a plane/cocaine."
  • The next three lines rhyme. (There's an established meter--um, iambic diameter?--but Cole Porter was way better of hewing to that than I am; I'll just trust to my imaginary Sinatra's ability to fit the phrasing together somehow.)
  • The next line rhymes with "you."
  • The last lined ends with "I get a kick out of you."

Have at it.
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Old 05-07-2010, 12:49 PM
DChord568 DChord568 is offline
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This is a quick and dirty attempt. Could probably use some refinement. But here goes:


Some get a kick out of pain
Sadists and masochists’s
Eyes glaze with bliss
As the latter’s wrists
Turn black and blue
But I get a kick out of you
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