# \[GAME\] Speak To Me Only in Song Lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 16, 2013, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502 "2013-05-16T12:17:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 134
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/2661 "2013-12-09T20:48:01Z")
Blow me a kiss from across the room say I look nice when I’m not Touch my hair as you pass my chair little things mean a lot Give me your arm as we cross the street call me at six on the dot A line a day when you’re far away little things mean a lot ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/2662 "2013-12-09T20:53:01Z")
She’s the kind of girl who puts you down When friends are there You feel a fool When you say she’s looking good She acts as if it’s understood She’s cool, ooo, ooo, ooo Girl, girl, girl ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/2663 "2013-12-09T20:54:48Z")
I don’t want to cause you any pain But I love you just the same And you’ll always be my baby In my heart I know we’ve come apart And I don’t know where to start What can I do, I don’t wanna feel blue Bad girl drunk by six Kissing someone else’s lips Smoked too many cigarettes today I’m not happy when I act this way ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/2664 "2013-12-09T21:07:33Z")
I’d defy Anyone who claimed that I Didn’t control Whatever moved in my soul I could tempt Touch delight Just because you fell for me Why should I feel uptight Love had to show me one thing I was so right (so right) So right Thought I could turn emotion On and off I was so sure So sure (I was so sure) But love taught me Who was, who was, who was the boss ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/2665 "2013-12-09T21:41:38Z")
Well, I went to the boss man Tried to get a break But the boss said ‘No dice, son, You gotta work late’ ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/2666 "2013-12-10T01:12:45Z")
We dance and sway Sway like the drunken priest We dream all day Day of the wedding feast Dark hooded eyes Eyes of a stallion We roll the dice One in a million Bring drums and bells to me ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/2667 "2013-12-10T01:26:24Z")
We can dance if we want to We can leave your friends behind 'Cause your friends don’t dance and if they don’t dance Well they’re no friends of mine I say, we can go where we want to A place where they will never find And we can act like we come from out of this world Leave the real one far behind And we can dance ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/2668 "2013-12-10T02:47:11Z")
It’s going down I’m yelling “Timber!” You better move You better dance Let’s make a night You won’t remember I’ll be the one You won’t forget ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/2669 "2013-12-10T12:55:28Z")
He’s sixty-three axe handles high, With his feet on the ground and his head in the sky. Hey, Paul! Paul Bunyan! ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/2670 "2013-12-10T13:07:16Z")
Now they never re-opend that wortheless pit, they just placed a marble stand in front of it. These few words are written on that stand, ‘At the bottom of this mine, lies a big big man, Big John’ Big John Big John Big Bad John Big John. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/2671 "2013-12-10T17:25:13Z")
And through their tears Some say he farmed his best in younger years But he’d have said that roots grow stronger if only he could hear Who lived there He must have been a gardener that cared a lot Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop Now we pray for rain, and with every drop that falls We hear, we hear your name Johnny can’t you come out to play in your empty garden ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/2672 "2013-12-10T17:29:45Z")
I was reading a magazine And thinking of a rock and roll song The year was nineteen fiftysix And I hadn’t been playing that long When a man came on the radio And this is what he said He said I hate to break it to his fans But Johnny Ace is dead, yeah, yeah, yeah Well, I really wasn’t Such a Johnny Ace fan But I felt bad alI the same So I sent away for his photograph And I wait untill it came It came all the way from Texas With a sad and sim-ple face And they signed it on the bottom From the Late Great Johnny Ace, yeah, yeah, yeah ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/2673 "2013-12-10T17:35:29Z")
The king is gone but he’s not forgotten This is the story of a Johnny Rotten It’s better to burn out than it is to rust The king is gone but he’s not forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/2674 "2013-12-10T17:37:34Z")
That voice inside my brain Elvis talking to me again I think I’m going insane He says that he’s my friend But I know what he said Is a lie cause Elvis is dead ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/2675 "2013-12-10T17:43:33Z")
Up in Memphis the music’s like a heat wave White lightning, bound to drive you wild. Mama’s baby’s in the heart of every school girl “Love me tender” leaves ‘em cryin’ in the aisle The way he moved, it was a sin, so sweet and true. Always wanting more, he’d leave you longing for. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/2676 "2013-12-10T17:47:46Z")
Put on my blue suede shoes and I boarded the plane Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues In the middle of the pouring rain W.C. Handy Won’t you look down over me Yeah, I got a first class ticket But I’m as blue as a boy can be Then I’m walking in Memphis I was walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale Walking in Memphis But do I really feel the way I feel? I saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue Followed him up to the gates of Graceland Then I watched him walk right through ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/2677 "2013-12-10T17:51:50Z")
Man o man What I want you to see Is that the big E’s Inside of you and me Elvis is everywhere Elvis is everything Elvis is everybody Elvis is still the king ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/2678 "2013-12-10T18:14:59Z")
Poorboys and pilgrims with families And we are going to Graceland My traveling companion is nine years old He is the child of my first marriage But I’ve reason to believe We both will be received In Graceland ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/2679 "2013-12-10T18:23:52Z")
I don’t believe in magic I don’t believe in I-ching I don’t believe in Bible I don’t believe in Tarot I don’t believe in Hitler I don’t believe in Jesus I don’t believe in Kennedy I don’t believe in Buddha I don’t believe in Mantra I don’t believe in Gita I don’t believe in Yoga I don’t believe in Kings I don’t believe in Elvis I don’t believe in Zimmerman I don’t believe in Beatles I just believe in me…and that reality ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2013, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/2680 "2013-12-10T19:36:22Z")
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