# \[GAME\] Speak To Me Only in Song Lyrics

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502>\
**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:** 243

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4841 "2014-06-22T17:26:54Z")

</div>

Che devi avere un caos dentro di te  
Que far fiorire una stella che balla  
Inferno e paradiso dentro di te  
La luna e un sole guarda come brilla

Baby the night is on fire  
Siamo fiamme nel cielo  
Lampi in mezzo al buio… what you say

Baila, baila morena  
Sotto questa luna piena  
Under the moonlight  
Under the moonlight

[translation **[here](http://lyricstranslate.com/en/baila-sexy-thing-dance-sexy-thing.html)**]

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4842 "2014-06-22T23:18:26Z")

</div>

Viens chez moi  
Ce soir va jamais terminer  
On va rester toujours ensemble  
You’re tellin’ me

Come with me  
Tonight will last forever  
We will stay together always

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [June 23, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4843 "2014-06-23T00:04:55Z")

</div>

Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?  
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?

He stayed in her boudoir  
While she freshened up  
That boy drank all that Magnolia wine  
On her black satin sheets  
Where he started to freak

Gitchi gitchi ya ya da da  
Gitchi gitchi ya ya here  
Mocha chocolata, ya ya  
Creole Lady Marmalade

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4844 "2014-06-23T00:37:39Z")

</div>

Sugar magnolia, blossoms blooming  
Heads all empty and I don’t care  
Saw my baby down by the river  
Knew she’d have to come up soon for air

Sweet blossom come on, under the willow  
We can have high times if you’ll abide  
We can discover the wonders of nature  
Rolling in the rushes down by the riverside

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4845 "2014-06-23T00:44:19Z")

</div>

Under the willow  
To the sound of the stream  
The first time I saw you  
Seeing into me

Under the willow  
You hummed a little song  
And I went along, went along

Under the willow  
We took the mask off  
Your face filled with light  
And promisses of love

Under the willow  
I held you so strong  
A place to get lost  
And go where you belong

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4846 "2014-06-23T13:20:53Z")

</div>

On the willows there  
We hung up our lives,  
For our captors there  
Required  
Of us songs.  
And our tormentors mirth.  
Saying  
Sing us one  
Of the songs of Zion,  
Sing us one  
Of the songs of Zion,  
Sing us one  
Of the songs of Zion.  
But how can we sing,  
Sing the Lord’s songs  
In a foreign land?  
On the willows there  
We hung up our lives…

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4847 "2014-06-23T15:16:31Z")

</div>

Hey now  
Where you going with that UB40 in your hand  
I said, hey now  
Through this green and pleasant land

I’m going down to Liverpool to do nothing  
I’m going down to Liverpool to do nothing  
I’m going down to Liverpool to do nothing  
All the days of my life  
All the days of my life

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4848 "2014-06-23T17:48:00Z")

</div>

I’m going up the country, babe don’t you wanna go?  
I’m going up the country, babe don’t you wanna go?  
I’m going to some place where I’ve never been before

I’m going, I’m going where the water tastes like wine  
Well, I’m going where the water tastes like wine  
We can jump in the water, stay drunk all the time

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4849 "2014-06-23T17:50:14Z")

</div>

Well, they’ll stone ya when you’re trying to be so good  
They’ll stone ya just a-like they said they would  
They’ll stone ya when you’re tryin’ to go home  
Then they’ll stone ya when you’re there all alone

But I would not feel so all alone  
Everybody must get stoned

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4850 "2014-06-23T17:52:50Z")

</div>

We got all the friends that money can buy  
So we never have to be alone  
And we keep gettin’ richer, but we can’t get our pitcher  
On the cover of the Rollin’ Stone

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4851 "2014-06-23T18:55:10Z")

</div>

Oh, a stitch in time  
Just about saved me  
From going through the same old moves  
And this cat is nine  
He still suffers  
He’s going through the same old grooves

But that stone just keeps on rolling  
Bringing me some real bad news  
Takers get the honey, givers sing the blues

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4852 "2014-06-24T14:59:48Z")

</div>

Can you sing at the same time in more than one key?  
Duets by Rossini and waltzes by Strauss?  
And can you, as cats do, begin with a ‘C’?  
That always triumphantly brings down the house?

Jellicle cats are queen of the nights  
Singing at astronomical heights  
Handeling pieces from the ‘Messiah’  
Hallelujah, angelical Choir

The mystical divinity of unashamed felinity  
Round the cathedral rang ‘Vivat’  
Life to the everlasting cat

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2014, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4853 "2014-06-24T15:06:25Z")

</div>

Black and orange stray cat sittin’ on a fence  
Ain’t got enough dough to pay the rent  
I’m flat broke, but I don’t care  
I strut right by with my tail in the air

Stray cat strut, I’m a (Ladies’ cat)  
I’m a feline Casanova (Hey, man, that’s where it’s at)  
Get a shoe thrown at me from a mean old man  
Get my dinner from a garbage can

Meow  
Yeah, don’t cross my path

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2014, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4854 "2014-06-24T15:11:21Z")

</div>

OOPS, everyone. This was just posted by a mod in another thread:

“A reminder to everybody: please don’t quote more than five lines from any one song unless it’s in the public domain. Thank you.”

I knew we couldn’t post entire songs, but I didn’t realize there was a five-line limit.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2014, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4855 "2014-06-24T19:01:38Z")

</div>

> [@CheshireKat](#):
>
> OOPS, everyone. This was just posted by a mod in another thread:
> 
> “A reminder to everybody: please don’t quote more than five lines from any one song unless it’s in the public domain. Thank you.”
> 
> I knew we couldn’t post entire songs, but I didn’t realize there was a five-line limit.

Here is the official Mod Advisory:

> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#):
>
> From here on, please only post snippets of songs. One or two verses is okay, but anything more than HALF the song is pushing it. Even half the song itself might be…try to keep the lyrics as short as you can to get the point across.

So a single verse/chorus combo is about the limit.

Back to the game:

I can see that you’re fifteen years old  
No I don’t want your I.D.  
And I can see that you’re so far from home  
But it’s no hanging matter  
It’s no capital crime

Oh yeah, you’re a strange stray cat  
Oh yeah, don’tcha scratch like that  
Oh yeah, you’re a strange stray cat  
I bet, bet your mama don’t know you scream like that  
I bet your mother don’t know you can spit like that.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [June 27, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4856 "2014-06-27T16:04:59Z")

</div>

Your mama don’t dance and your daddy don’t rock and roll.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![zadscmc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a183cd/32.png) [@zadscmc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zadscmc)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4857 "2014-06-27T16:31:17Z")

</div>

My mama done told me. Get something for dinner.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4858 "2014-06-27T16:36:07Z")

</div>

Mama told me not to come.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4859 "2014-06-27T17:01:23Z")

</div>

She told me to come, but I was already there.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4860 "2014-06-28T04:49:55Z")

</div>

‘Cause I’m already gone and I’m feelin’ strong  
I will sing this vict’ry song, woo, hoo,hoo,woo,hoo,hoo

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502.md?page=242)

[Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502.md?page=244)
