Intimate Strangers (an oxymoronic melody) - Writers Forum

Beeswing · 07-29-2004, 06:54 AM

I was just playing around with oxymorons and ended up trying to make a whole song out of them - just for a laugh!

This is the result.

Intimate Strangers

Well meaning deceiving
Same old difference
Lies worth believing
Endless curtailing
Of obsessive indifference
Just breathless exhaling

So lonely together
Same old difference
A finite forever
A senseless emotion
Of possessive deliverance
And distant devotion

Pick your preference
Won’t make no difference
What you need is what you get?
I guess I never understood that yet
The grass is greener sitting on the fence?
Makes no fucking sense to me

Steadfastly forsaking
Same old difference
Reality faking
With dry-eyed crying?
Just meaningless inference
And effortless trying

Free-loving for sale
Same old difference
Constant betrayal
Screaming in silence
At arrogant deference
And velvet-gloved violence

Pick your preference
Don’t make no difference
What you get is what you need?
I guess I’m working to a different creed
There ain’t no perfect in the present tense
Makes no fucking sense to me

Copyright © July 2004 by D Rulliere

Destiny · 07-29-2004, 06:14 PM

Wow, what a cool idea! ^.^ Very clever.

It makes for a very interesting song - scans surprisingly well. Can't say I really understand it, if it actually does have an overall meaning, but it still sounds funky.

I like.

Mystery · 07-29-2004, 11:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Destiny

Wow, what a cool idea! ^.^ Very clever.

It makes for a very interesting song - scans surprisingly well. Can't say I really understand it, if it actually does have an overall meaning, but it still sounds funky.

I like.

It's a pair of good sounding oxymoron sentences put together.
Its like signing with a single rhyme and rhyming every word ¬¬
A.K.A 1) no meaning
2) No beat