This just occurred to me as I was looking at the labels of a few random records.

Here’s the first one: I’m going to write this out as it appears on the label.

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Slow Train Coming

by Bob Dylan

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Gotta serve somebody

Precious angel

I believe in you

Slow train

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Gonna change my way of thinking

Do right to me baby

When you gonna wake up

Man gave names to all the animals

When he returns

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Get it? I’m just writing down the song titles as they appear in order on the label. Side 1 is verse 1, Side 2 verse 2. I’m sure this has been discovered before but before I google it I’ll just post this. The poetry works in a sort of an extended Japanese style of capturing a moment using simple words and phrases with few lines.

Maybe this only works because it’s Bob Dylan? Let’s try some more, at random. How about Booker T and the MG’s, Melting Pot?

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Melting Pot

by Booker T and the MGs

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Melting pot

Back home

Chicken pox

Fuquawi

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Kinda easy like

Hi ride

L.A jazz song

Sunny Monday

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96 Tears

by Question Mark and the Mysterians

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I need somebody

Stormy Monday

You’re telling me lies

Ten o’clock

Set aside

Up side (down)

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8 teen

Don’t tease me

Don’t break this heart of mine

Why me

Midnight hour

96 tears

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Bo Diddley

by Bo Diddley

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Bo Diddley

I’m a man

Bring it to Jerome

Before you accuse me

Hey Bo Diddley

Dearest darling

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Hush your mouth

Say bossman

Diddley daddy

Diddey wah Diddey

Who do you love

Pretty thing

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I’ll post some more…or add some in the comments.

Old Train

by The Seldom Scene

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Appalachian rain

Wait a minute

Different roads

Old train

Through the bottom of the glass

Old cross roads

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Pan American

Working on a building

Walk through this world with me

Maybe you will change your mind

Traveling on and on

C & O canal

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The King and I

by Reverand Robert J. Lucas

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Be a witness

The king and I

I love the Lord

Every time I think about Jesus

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The world can’t do me no harm

The church of God is marching on

Come out of the wilderness

I haven’t got time to tarry

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People Music

by The Fatback Band

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Njia walk (Street walk)

Gotta have you

Fatbackin’

Baby doll

Clap your hands

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Soul march

Soul man

To be with you

Kiba

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Fortune of Hits

by Nolan Strong and the Diablos

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The wind

Route 16

Someday you’ll want me to want you

Goodbye Mathilda

You’re the only girl, Dolores

The way you dog me around

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If I

Since you’re gone

Do you remember what you did

A teardrop from heaven

Ooh! ooh! those eyes

(I want) an old fashioned girl

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Honky Tonkin’

by Hank Williams

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Jambalaya

I won’t be home no more

Honky tonk blues

I’ll never get out of this world alive

Honky tonkin’

Howlin’ at the moon

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My bucket’s got a hole in it

Baby, we’re really in love

Mind your own business

Rootie Tootie

I ain’t got nothin’ but time

You better keep it on your mind

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The Rationals

by The Rationals

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Barefootin’

Temptation ’bout to get me

Guitar army

Something’s got a hold on me

Deep red

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Sunset

Glowin’

Handbags & gladrags

Ha-ha

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Jonathon Round

by Jonathon Round

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In quest of the unicorn

Don’t it make you wanna go home

Tolu

Sympathy for the devil

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To love somebody

Travelin’ mama blues

And I will not be moved

Train-a-comin’

Young Sadie (dancing lady)

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House of the Mechanical Sun

by the Monkey Power Trio

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Happy with myself

Meaty girls

Gallon of gin

Ballerinas forever

Hop on the monkey bus

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Mechanical sun

Another year

Little Billy Oshin

Panic attack (need an octopus)

Life is pain, right T.J?

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Moon Rappin’

by Brother Jack McDuff

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Flat backin’

Oblighetto

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Moon rappin’

Made in Sweden

Loose foot

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Goin’ for Myself

by Dennis Coffey

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Taurus

Can you feel it

Never can say goodbye

Ride, Sally, ride

Midnight blue

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Bridge over troubled water

Man and boy

It’s too late

Toast and jam

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Raw Power

by Iggy and the Stooges

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Search and destroy

Gimme danger

Your pretty face is going to hell

Penetration

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Raw power

I need somebody

Shake appeal

Death trip

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At the Mighty Hammond X-77 Hammond Organ

by Denny McLain

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Don’t give up

Lonely is the name

For me

The look of love

Hurdy gurdy man

Extra innings

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This guy’s in love with you

Nice ‘n’ easy

Cherish

By the time I get to Phoenix

Watch what happens

On a clear day

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In The Saviours Hands

by Robert White and the Candy Mt. Boys

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Our lords spaceship

In the saviors hands

If you don’t know his love

Mothers love

All day singing

Working on a building

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I’ll follow thee

One day late

Since I got this feeling

The night of total darkness

God’s tax free plan

Heavenly light shining on me

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They Say I’m Different

by Betty Davis

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Shoo-b-doop and cop him

He was a big freak

Your mama wants you back

Don’t call her no tramp

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Git in there

They say I’m different

70s blues

Special people

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Funkadelic

by Funkadelic

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Mommy, what’s a funkadelic?

I bet you

Music for my mother

I got a thing, you got a thing, everybody’s got a thing

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Good old music

Qualify & satisfy

What is soul

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Life, Love and Faith

by Allen Toussaint

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Victims of the darkness

Am I expecting too much?

My baby is the real thing

Goin’ down

She once belonged to me

Out of the city (into country life)

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Soul sister

Fingers and toes

I’ve got to convince myself

On your way down

Gone too far

Electricity

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Led Zeppelin

by Led Zeppelin

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Good times bad times

Babe I’m gonna leave you

You shook me

Dazed and confused

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Your time is gonna come

Black mountain side

Communication breakdown

I can’t quit you baby

How many more time

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Scotch and Soul

by Rufus Harley

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Feeling good

If you could see me now

Taurus the 20th

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Scotch and soul

Passing the cup around

A nightingale sang in Berkeley square

Sufur

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I’m at the shop now. Here are some more. It’s amazing how this works, and how the language of sequential songs on an album translates into poetry. There’s a lot of common themes throughout, and combined with the rhythm of the lines and the structure, it becomes it’s own genre, shaping itself under it’s own strict discipline. And there’s emotion, because the words are describing actual songs. The best part of it is, the poems write themselves because they’re already there. Check these out:

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The Way You Look Tonight

by Jimmy McGriff

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The way you look tonight

Moon river

I want to talk about you

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Once again

Laura

All soul

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Grand Funk

by Grand Funk Railroad

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Got this thing on the move

Please don’t worry

High falootin’ Woman

Mr. limousine driver

In need

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Winter and my soul

Paranoid

Inside looking out

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Tune Up!

by Don Patterson

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Just friends

Flyin’ home

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Tune up

Blues for mom

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Soul Liberaton

by Rusty Bryant

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Cold duck time

The balad of Oren Bliss

Lou-Lou

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Soul liberation

Freeze-dried soul

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Volume 2

by Lee Morgan

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Whisper not

Latin hangover

His sister

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Slightly hep

Where am I

D’s fink

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Touch the Earth

by Dolan Ellis

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Arizona 1-10 highway

Electric anthill

The old homestead

Keeper of the town

Nature’s children

Underground music

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Son of the desert

Orphan of the hills

Cowboy’s vision

Therapeutic 4-wheel drive

There ain’t no catfish in Ajo

May the road rise up to meet you

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Imaginary Roads

by William Ackerman

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The moment in which you must finally let go of the tether which has held your hope airborne

A region of clouds

If you look

Floyd’s ghost

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Wondering again what’s behind the eyes

Dawn treader

The prospect of Darrow’s barn and the blossoms of an apple spring on imaginary road

Brother A teaches 7

Innocent moon

The moment-reprise

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The Remix Album

by Milli Vanilli

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Girl you know it’s true

Baby don’t forget my number

Blame it on the rain

All or nothing

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Money

Hush

Can’t you feel my love

Boy in the tree

Girl I’m gonna miss you

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Power of Soul

by Idris Muhammad

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Power of soul

Piece of mind

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The saddest thing

Loran’s dance

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