O iPod! Wherefore art thou 'Shuffle'? Deny thy randomness and come clean!

Ok. Here's the thing:

My iPod has over 5,000 tracks on it. [And here I must say that a) I'm very very lucky to have an iPod and b) I'm very grateful to have one that can hold that much music and c) I'm very lucky to have that much music to put on it!]

...That established, I'll come to my point:

Of those 5,000+ songs, maybe 40-odd tracks are from Prokofiev's ballet of Romeo and Juliet. When I put the iPod on the 'shuffle' setting - which purportedly makes it play an absolutelytotallycompletely random selection of the songs it contains - it inevitably plays tracks from this ballet. Every time. More than once in the same hour.

But the creepy is yet to come: The tracks my iPod randomly decides to play are always a) fight scenes or b) the death of Mercutio or c) the death of Romeo and/or Juliet at the end of the ballet. No love scenes; no pas de deux, no gentle bits of Juliet playing with her doll and teasing her Nurse. Nope, just cold hard steel.

WTF?! iPod - you are either too much of a realist, or too much of a cynic... or maybe just all-around depressing. But don't try to convince me that your 'shuffle' setting is Without-Plan.