# \[GAME\] 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:** 248
**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:** [July 11, 2014, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4941 "2014-07-11T00:27:16Z")
One man caught on a barbed wire fence One man he resist One man washed up on an empty beach One man betrayed with a kiss ---
**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:** [July 11, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4942 "2014-07-11T00:51:15Z")
So now I’ll go the minstrel road without you I know there will be times when I need you there And each night as I sing those songs about you I’ll think back to the time when you used to care Take it easy on me ---
**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:** [July 11, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4943 "2014-07-11T03:08:17Z")
I love to see a minstrel show, More than any show I know. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4944 "2014-07-11T04:10:09Z")
Baby, I wish you’d help me escape Help me get away Leave me outside my address Far away from this masquerade 'Cause I’ve been blind, oh, so blind I wasted time, wasted, wasted all too much time Walking on a wire, high wire But I must let the show go I must let the show go ---
**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:** [July 11, 2014, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4945 "2014-07-11T04:22:39Z")
The silver plated hero Meets the golden hearted whore The odds’ll give you zero She’ll be leaving in a few days more Movin’ on forever, maybe she don’t care Holding on together, maybe it just ain’t there You’re dancing on a high wire You need to be so sure There used to be a lifeline There isn’t anymore ---
**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:** [July 11, 2014, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4946 "2014-07-11T04:29:54Z")
I’m up on the tight wire Flanked by life and the funeral pyre Putting on a show For you to see ---
**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:** [July 11, 2014, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4947 "2014-07-11T13:23:27Z")
Ooh, yeah, you’re amazing! We think you are really cool. We’d give you a part, my love, But you’d have to play the fool. ---
**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:** [July 11, 2014, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4948 "2014-07-11T14:47:38Z")
Well on the way, head in a cloud The man of a thousand voices talking perfectly loud But nobody ever hears him Or the sound he appears to make And he never seems to notice But the fool on the hill Sees the sun going down And the eyes in his head See the world spinning around ---
**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:** [July 11, 2014, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4949 "2014-07-11T15:14:20Z")
The lunatic is in the hall The lunatics are in my hall The paper holds their folded faces to the floor And every day the paper boy brings more And if the dam breaks open many years too soon And if there is no room upon the hill And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I’ll see you on the dark side of the moon ---
**Author:** ![zadscmc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a183cd/32.png) [@zadscmc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zadscmc)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4950 "2014-07-11T17:28:49Z")
When walking between the lines and the squares, Be careful that you don’t step on the bears. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4951 "2014-07-12T15:44:31Z")
Let’s talk dirty to the animals! ---
**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:** [July 12, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4952 "2014-07-12T16:39:25Z")
Well I am just a monkey man I’m glad you are a monkey, monkey woman too, babe ---
**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:** [July 12, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4953 "2014-07-12T20:35:27Z")
Fox the fox Rat on the rat You can ape the ape I know about that There is one thing you must be sure of I can’t take any more Darling, don’t you monkey with the monkey Hey hey hey, monkey, monkey, monkey Don’t you know you’re going to shock the monkey, hey hey Shock the monkey, hey hey hey hey hey ---
**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:** [July 12, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4954 "2014-07-12T22:00:08Z")
Tweeter and the monkey man were hard up for cash They stayed up all night selling cocaine and hash To an undercover cop who had a sister named Jan For reasons unexplained she loved the monkey man ---
**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:** [July 12, 2014, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4955 "2014-07-12T22:47:56Z")
If you wanna hang out You’ve got to take her out, cocaine If you wanna get down Down on the ground, cocaine She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie Cocaine ---
**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:** [July 12, 2014, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4956 "2014-07-12T23:40:31Z")
I’ve seen the needle and the damage done A little part of it in everyone But every junkie’s like a settin’ sun. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4957 "2014-07-15T02:29:12Z")
I saw the best minds of my generation Destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical I should be allowed to glue my poster I should be allowed to think ---
**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:** [July 15, 2014, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4958 "2014-07-15T12:00:30Z")
To me you’re like the setting sun You shine then you’re gone To me you’re like the setting sun You shine then you’re gone Go down on your light So bright it burns my eyes Sounds like a perfect way To end my life ---
**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:** [July 15, 2014, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4959 "2014-07-15T13:03:58Z")
The strangest thought has hit me after all: I think I will not hang myself today. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2014, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4960 "2014-07-15T13:14:57Z")
Oh, I’ve got something inside me To drive a princess blind There’s a wild man, wizard He’s hiding in me, illuminating my mind [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502.md?page=247) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502.md?page=249)