Let me introduce you to the gang
Johnny plays the sitar, he’s an existentialist
Once he had a name, now he plays our game
You won’t feel so good now that you’ve joined the gang
Next how about panties
Oops. The Song was Join the Gang by Bowie
I wear underwear, she told me.
I hate the word panties.
– “Underwear,” Jim’s Big Ego
How about . . . crackle?
Right the wrong
Hear the song
Before long U won’t hear nothin’ but the **crackle ** of flames
Right the wrong
Hear the song
Would u rather die knowing that u did or keep living in shame
Prince – Right the Wrong
Petal
Stars were falling deep in the darkness
as prayers rose softly, **petals ** at dawn
Full Circle, by Loreena McKennitt
clarity
CLARITY
I stopped by the bar at 3 am
To seek solace in a bottle, or possibly a friend
And I woke up with a headache like my head against a board
Twice as cloudy as I’d been the night before
I went in seeking clarity…
~Indigo Girls, “Closer to Fine”
magnificent
You’re my magificent possession,
A treasure lent me from above.
As long as I have breath within me,
You’ll be my one and only love.
Nat King Cole – Magnificent Obsession
Unanimous
The court deemed me to be offensive
I’m an ominous man
Once love is **unanimous **
No order demands
Verve Pipe, Ominous Man
How 'bout … Napalm
“I’ll give you love and napalm, you are all invited to the show.”
Gary Numan - Love and Napalm
How about deluge?
There is freedom within, there is freedom without
Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup
Don’t Dream It’s Over – -- Crowded House
and now… persistence
“You’ve taken me into Your heart to my home
And closed the distance with Your persistence”
– Persistence, Across the Sky
Next: Labrador
“An orange green labrador
Sits in the clouds
Geraldine watches nearby
The sun’s going down on a
Shadow of doubt”
-Geraldine, by Once Blue
Howsabout… recapitulate?
War is a science
With rules to be applied
Which good soldiers appreciate
Recall and recapitulate
Before they go to decimate
The other side
“War is a Science,” Pippin
Next Word: euphoria
Sweet euphoria mine is the heart you stole
Touched and broken are the things you love
Using stars to light your candles
-Chris Cornell, Euphoria Morning
That was a hard one.
Let’s go to kindergarten
You must have been a beautiful baby
You must have been a wonderful child
When you were only starting to go to kindergarten
I bet you drove the little boys wild.
You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby - Bing Crosby
How about periwinkle.
“Peridots and periwinkle blue medallions
Gilded galleons spilled across the ocean floor
Treasure somewhere in the sea and he will find where
Never mind their questions there’s no answer for”
– from Joni Mitchell’s “Dawn Treader”
Next word: decrepit
"There’s no whiskeythere’s no wine
Just the concrete and a worried mind
’cause everybody knows death creeps in slow
’til you feel safe in his arms
And I’ve been looking for a new friend
And I don’t care if he’s decrepit and grey"
~Beck, “O Maria”
Next word: baffled
“Completely baffled by a backward indication
That an inspired word will come across your tongue”
– The White Stripes , “There’s No Home For You Here”
Next word: clavicle
“I wanna wake up naked next to you,
Kissing the curve in your clavicle.
Kissing your clavicle.”
– Alkaline Trio, Clavicle
Next up: oleander
“Oleanders growing outside her door
Soon they’re gonna be in bloom up in Annandale.”
Steely Dan: My Old School
Next word: speckled