Mash-up Activity
Directions: Pick three songs and grab 7 phrases or lines from each song, and then make a poem.
· 3 songs
· 7 lines each
· Total of 27 lines
· In stanzas
· Quadruplets
· One line for the ending
· You could change the tense/1st 2nd or 3rd person
· You could add words to the lines
· You could rephrase the lines
Songs:
Never Shout Never (Time Traveler)
-3.Nothing is real
-1.I made a deal with the devil
-2.Lost track of my soul on the run
-19Tripped and fell in the glorified dirt
-5.I is coming home
-6.Howled at the moon
-20Took my soul and left my body for dead
Jack Johnson (Breakdown)
-15.See what there is to see
-13Time is just a melody
-11. It just might roll through town
-8.Oh please just let me breakdown
-7.I don't even make a sound
-16.But I can't stop now let me breakdown
-14You can't stop wishing if you don't let go
Bob Dylan (Times They Are Changing)
-9. You'll be drenched to the bone
-12. For the times they are changing
-18.Keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again
-17.Don't stand in the doorway
-10. There is a battle outside and it's ragging
-21Don't criticize what you can't understand
-4.The order is rapidly fading
Poem:
I made a deal with the devil
So I lost track of my soul on the run
Nothing is real
The order is rapidly fading
Now I'm coming home
I tried to howl at the moon
But now I don't even make a sound
Please just let me breakdown
I'm drenched to the bone
And there's a war outside and it's raging
Death might just roll through town
Home is not the same, the times they are changing
Deep inside I know, time is just a melody
You can't start wishing if you can't let go
I have to see what there is to see
Because I can't stop now, please don't breakdown
Don't stand in the doorway
Keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again
Leap into the glorified dirt
Take your soul and leave your body for dead
Don't criticize what you can't understand..
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