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Snake Hill (Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band)

Conor Oberst lives at home with his mother, and has his whole life. He is told by her that the world is a rotten place, best left alone. He goes to the city despite better judgement by his mother, and meets a seemingly shy farm girl Teresa Johns, who eventually breaks his heart.



Wrinkles (Diamond Rio)

Nancy Jones looks back on a childhood memory, in which she remembers noticing wrinkles on her finger while getting out of the bath tub. She asks her dad and learns a lesson that she remembers till this day: Stress and Hardships will inevetably taint the body, but they don't have to taint your life.



The Baby (Shelton Blake)

Every one thinks that Shelton Blake is a no, good, spoile rotten, baby. Because he is...to his mother at least. No matter how old he grows, Sheltons frusteration grows too, because he is alway his mommas' baby. His indignant feelings abrubtly change when he is called to his mothers death bed.



There Goes My Life (Kenny Chesney)

19-year-old Kenny Chesney becomes saddened and thinks his life is over when is girlfriend gets pregnant. He thinks about his future he will never have. Through the years of being a father, he quickly finds his self full of sadness again when his beloved daughter, Susan, goes to college.

What a Beautiful Day (Chris Cagle)

Polititians Hillary and Bill Clinton think back on the stepping stones of their artificially happy marriage. They remember certain events such as their marriage, theirs childs' birth and the day they met. They know that their true love really doesn't matter, just the image people see on the news.

Story Song

Song Title: Snake Hill

Artist: Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
Link to Lyrics

Plot
Speaker is born on Snake Hill, warned he has venom by his mother and she tells him that because he has conscience so when he bites it only hurts him. Speak thinks he should say on Snake Hill. He stayed on the hill, and he doesn't think it's fair, but he would go look at the city and then he decides to go to it. He goes to the city and realized his mother was hiding him from girls, he kills her (figuratively I assume) and goes back to Snake Hill.

Character
Speaker
His Mom
The girl

Conflict
He is confined to his home and he wants to go out in the world, and thinks it is unfair that he can't leave "Snake Hill". He goes out anyways and realizes that the world isn't great and gets his heart broken by a girl.

Theme
Importance of home and the safeties it provides.
Dangers and hardships of the real world.
Girls make boys "feel alive" or they make them "wanna die."

Setting
No specific time frame
On Snake Hill, the speakers home
Real outside world

6-Word Memoir

10. When she smiles, I look away.
9. Three..Two...One...One Half...
8. I look in the mirror sometimes.
7. Politics have killed the happy citizens.
6. Ambiguity can be the most clear.
5. I can create, I can destroy.
4. Flesh can be stronger than bullets.
3. Sometimes I staple, Sometimes I glue.
2. 8 weeks? Doctors can't give time.
1. Can't stand standing, can't stand sitting.

Grand Theft Poetry

The Death of Silence

They say that
loud noise is famous to silence.
But I say she is indifferent to the noise.

The red light is blinking
on my answering machine,
and I am as happy as a lark.


I sit in my chair,
with a pen, or a book, or nothing at all,
and listen to her speak for a while.

But what does this world do,
when they ought to be at home?
They scream and shout.

And maybe they'll admit it,
once they've killed her.
But it's no secret.

And they'll scream through her funeral.