# \[GAME\] 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:** 249
**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 15, 2014, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4961 "2014-07-15T13:44:46Z")
In all your fantasies, you always knew that man and mystery Were both in you And in this labyrinth where night is blind the Phantom of the Opera is there/here, inside my/your mind ---
**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, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4962 "2014-07-15T13:55:10Z")
Left, right, straight ahead You’re in the labyrinth Left, right, straight ahead Left, right, straight ahead No one here can tell you Which direction Is the right one to take Child for heaven’s sake ---
**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 15, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4963 "2014-07-15T15:03:18Z")
You put your right foot in You put your right foot out You put your right foot in And you shake it all about You do the hokey-pokey And you turn yourself around That what it’s all about! ---
**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, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4964 "2014-07-15T15:04:42Z")
Is that all there is? Is that all there is? If that’s all there is my friends Then let’s keep dancing Let’s break out the booze and have a ball ---
**Author:** ![zadscmc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a183cd/32.png) [@zadscmc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zadscmc)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4965 "2014-07-15T17:40:27Z")
And I sat there, getting high, stoned Knocked out and by the time I looked on the wall, at the old clock again And by that time 't was a quarter to two Last call for alcohol I said, “Hey, Mister Bartender” Said, “Well, what do you want?” One bourbon, one scotch and one beer ---
**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, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4966 "2014-07-15T17:59:25Z")
He drinks a whiskey drink He drinks a vodka drink He drinks a lager drink He drinks a cider drink ---
**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, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4967 "2014-07-15T18:02:47Z")
If I get drunk, well, I know I’m gonna be I’m gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you ---
**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, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4968 "2014-07-15T18:56:29Z")
There’s nothin’ Nietsche couldn’t teacha 'bout the bending of the wrist. Socrates himself was permanently pissed. ---
**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, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4969 "2014-07-15T18:58:50Z")
(Well, it’s stimulating…) Solzhenitzin’ feels exposed Build a barbed wired prison Nietsche’s six feet under but his babies still got rhythm ---
**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, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4970 "2014-07-15T19:01:28Z")
The other night I dreamt a nice continental drift divide Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce, and Lester Bangs Birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean, boom You symbiotic, patriotic, slam but neck, right? Right ---
**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, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4971 "2014-07-15T19:19:53Z")
B.B. Bumble and the Stingers, Mott the Hoople, Ray Charles Singers Lonnie Mack and twangin’ Eddy, here’s my ring we’re goin’ steady Take it easy, take me higher, liar liar, house on fire ---
**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 15, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4972 "2014-07-15T22:55:41Z")
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray _South Pacific_, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, _The King and I_, and _The Catcher in the Rye_ Eisenhower, vaccine, England’s got a new queen Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye We didn’t start the fire It was always burning since the world’s been turning We didn’t start the fire No, we didn’t light it but we tried to fight it ---
**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, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4973 "2014-07-15T22:59:44Z")
I’ve been to: Pittsburgh, Parkersburg, Gravelbourg, Colorado, Ellensburg, Rexburg, Vicksburg, Eldorado, Larimore, Atmore, Haverstraw, Chatanika, Chaska, Nebraska, Alaska, Opelika, Baraboo, Waterloo, Kalamazoo, Kansas City, Sioux City, Cedar City, Dodge City, what a pity I’ve been everywhere ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4974 "2014-07-16T02:35:51Z")
I’ve been to Hollywood, I’ve been to Redwood I crossed the ocean for a heart of gold I’ve been in my mind, it’s such a fine line That keeps me searchin’ for a heart of gold And I’m getting old ---
**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 16, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4975 "2014-07-16T13:49:00Z")
I’ve been to Boston, Charleston, Dayton Louisiana, Washington, Houston Kingston, Texarkana, Monterey, Ferriday Santa Fe, Tallahoosa, Glen Rock Black Rock, Little Rock, Oskaloosa Tennessee, Hennessey, Chicopee Spirit Lake Grand Lake, Devil’s Lake, Crater Lake, for Pete’s sake ---
**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 16, 2014, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4976 "2014-07-16T13:53:36Z")
Now let me see I’ve been to: Valley Mills, Pine Mills, Dime Box, Duncanville, New Home, New Hope, New Deal, Liberty Hill, Rockport, Rock Creek, Bridgeport, Brownwood, Cleburne, Comanche, Cut-N-Shoot, Cottonwood, Bayview, Bayside, Baytown, Bay City, Falls City, Center City, Bridge City, what a pity [Thanks, [Brian Burns](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdzWpPPeN74&feature=kp)] ---
**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 16, 2014, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4977 "2014-07-16T14:00:21Z")
I’ve been to Gotham City, Em’rald City, No-Name City, what a pity… ---
**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 16, 2014, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4978 "2014-07-16T14:09:24Z")
Come with me to the Emerald City. Right this way to the Emerald City. Oh, I’ve always wanted to see the Emerald City: One short day in the Emerald City One short day in the Emerald City One short day full of so much to do Ev’ry way that you look in the city ---
**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 16, 2014, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4979 "2014-07-16T14:19:27Z")
Take me down To the Paradise City Where the grass is green And the girls are pretty Oh, won’t you please take me home ---
**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 16, 2014, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/4980 "2014-07-16T14:29:10Z")
Then I awake and look around me, at the four grey walls that surround me and I realize, yes, I was only dreaming. For there’s a guard and there’s a sad old padre - arm in arm we’ll walk at daybreak. Again I touch the green, green grass of home. Yes, they’ll all come to see me in the shade of that old oak tree as they lay me neath the green, green grass of home. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502.md?page=248) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502.md?page=250)