A Song Lyric for Every Occasion

My mother was a piano bar musician. I grew up in a constant environment of music. On road trips, we actually song show tunes. We played word games…with song lyrics. My mother and I would go back and forth thinking of all the songs we could with, say, the word “flower” in it.

For better or worse, she marked me for life. I have an amazing, but I’m sure occasionally annoying, habit of being able to come up with an appropriate song lyric for just about any occasion.

Of course, the internet has just fed my fascination with song lyrics. Twitter, in particular, seems to be the perfect venue for occasionally using song lyrics to communicate.

But what if I pushed it to an extreme? I’ve been wondering if I could go a whole day communicating on Twitter via nothing but song lyrics. And talking last night with @jeremya, who’s trying to get his blip.fm Marathon badge (blipping at least once an hour for 24 hours), I decided I’d go ahead and give it a try. Today.

Here’s how the conversation started last night:

ScottAllen: It’s 2am…fear is gone. ? beta.blip.fm/~kthma

ScottAllen: @jeremya I’ve been toying w/the idea of tweeting all in song lyrics one day.

ScottAllen: @jeremya Participate in conversation, talk about what’s actually going on in my life, but all w/ song lyrics.

Jeremya: @ScottAllen That would be cool!

ScottAllen: @jeremya I’m cool like that. 🙂 ? beta.blip.fm/~kti9d

Jeremya: @ScottAllen lol Started already.

ScottAllen: @jeremya Something got me started. You’ve got to help me… ?beta.blip.fm/~ktixl

Jeremya: @ScottAllen lol. It would be cool if you could search by badges… lol.

ScottAllen: @jeremya Badges? We don’t need any badges. We don’t need no stinking badges. ? blip.fm/~ktjo8

ScottAllen: It’s 3 o’clock in the morning. Can’t even close my eyes. ?blip.fm/~ktk1a

<Jeremy only made it to hour 4 of his marathon last night>

ScottAllen: @jeremya And how goes the medium tempo? ?blip.fm/~ku8nt

Jeremya: @ScottAllen Unfortunately I slept through the night.. when I meant to only take a nap so I am trying again today. lol.

ScottAllen: @jeremya It’s a test of ultimate will, the heartbreak climb uphill. Got to pick up the pace if you want to stay… ? blip.fm/~ku90n

I feel like such a geek, but I feel compelled to finish what I started.

Now if I could just find a lyric for “I’m headed to Walgreen’s ‘cuz we’re out of milk.”