# \[GAME\] 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:** 273
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/5441 "2014-09-17T14:05:42Z")
Their brands were still on fire and their hooves were made of steel Their horns were black and shiny and their hot breath he could feel A bolt of fear went through him as they thundered through the sky For he saw the riders comin hard and he heard their mournful cries ---
**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:** [September 17, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/5442 "2014-09-17T17:10:34Z")
Restless souls will put on their dancing shoes Mindless ghouls with lots of limbs to lose Illusionists, contortionist, Tightrope - walkers thightening the noose Horde of spiders, closet tentacles Laughing harpies with their talons ripping Sher-chrisss, per-vizz The pendulum still sways for you Such are the darks here to show you, child in a corner Fallen mirrors, all kingdom in cinders ---
**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:** [September 17, 2014, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/5443 "2014-09-17T20:58:49Z")
You’ve got a restless heart Restless change is blowing through your life Tears in your eyes Tears in the books that I’ve been reading I don’t understand you now, and I never did But I still love your restless heart ---
**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:** [September 17, 2014, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/5444 "2014-09-17T21:40:37Z")
The police came by here, but what had I to fear? I let 'em in to take a look around, But the longer they stayed, the more my nerves were frayed, And then I heard that cotton-ticking sound. Don’t find the heart, [the telly taley heart,](http://tomsmith.bandcamp.com/track/telly-taley-heart) 'Cause that’s the only weakness to my plan, And if you find the heart, the telly taley heart, You’ll prob’ly figure out I killed the man. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2014, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/5445 "2014-09-17T22:24:15Z")
All around in my home town They’re trying to track me down. They say they want to bring me in guilty For the killing of a deputy, For the life of a deputy. But I say: I shot the sheriff, but I swear it was in self-defense. I shot the sheriff, and they say it is a capital offense. ---
**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:** [September 17, 2014, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/5446 "2014-09-17T22:40:43Z")
Many a man would face his gun, and many a man would fall The man who shot Liberty Valance He shot Liberty Valance He was the bravest of them all ---
**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:** [September 17, 2014, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/5447 "2014-09-17T22:41:58Z")
He lay face down in the desert sand Clutching his six-gun in his hand Shot from behind, I thought he was dead But under his heart was an ounce of lead But a spark still burned so I used my knife And late that night I saved the life of Ringo ---
**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:** [September 17, 2014, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/5448 "2014-09-17T23:37:29Z")
Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame You give love a bad name I play my part and you play your game You give love a bad name ---
**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:** [September 18, 2014, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/5449 "2014-09-18T01:25:46Z")
Cowboys don’t love Indians Maybe they fight too well They seem tough But it’s just a bluff Some things are hard to tell And who is brave? And who is strong? You think you are You could be wrong ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2014, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/5450 "2014-09-18T12:34:34Z")
Cowboys ain’t easy to love and they’re harder to hold. They’d rather give you a song than diamonds or gold. Lone Star belt buckles and old faded Levis, And each night begins a new day. If you don’t understand him, and he don’t die young, He’ll prob’ly just ride away. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2014, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/5451 "2014-09-18T13:21:53Z")
Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses? Come down from your fences, open the gate It may be rainin’, but there’s a rainbow above you You better let somebody love you, before it’s too late ---
**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:** [September 18, 2014, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/5452 "2014-09-18T14:31:47Z")
He was a desperado from the wild and woolly West, He came into Chicago just to give the West a rest He wore a big sombrero and a gun beneath his And everywhere he went he gave his war whoop ---
**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:** [September 18, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/5453 "2014-09-18T18:38:15Z")
The west is the best The west is the best Get here, and we’ll do the rest ---
**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:** [September 18, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/5454 "2014-09-18T18:54:44Z")
And all will turn To silver glass A light on the water Grey ships pass Into the West ---
**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:** [September 18, 2014, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/5455 "2014-09-18T19:06:57Z")
To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West, west away, the round sun is falling. Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling, The voices of my people that have gone before me? ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/5456 "2014-09-19T02:50:34Z")
Westering home and a song in the air Light in the eye and its goodbye to care Laughter o’ love and a welcoming there Isle o’ my heart my own one Tell me o’ lands o’ the Orient gay Speak o’ the riches and joys o’ Cathay Aye but its grand to be wakin’ each day To find yourself nearer to Islay ---
**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:** [September 19, 2014, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/5457 "2014-09-19T05:13:17Z")
Who’ll make his mark, the captain cried, To the devil drink a toast We’ll glut the hold with cups of gold And we’ll feed the sea with ghosts I see your hunger for a fortune Could be better served beneath my flag If you’ve the stomach for a broadside Come aboard my pretty boys I will take you and make you Everything you’ve ever dreamed Make fast the guns, tonight we sail When the high tide floods the bay ---
**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:** [September 19, 2014, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/5458 "2014-09-19T13:43:18Z")
I left my home in Georgia Headed for the Frisco Bay Cuz I’ve had nothing to live for And look like nothing’s gonna come my way So, I’m just gon’ sit on the dock of the bay Watchin’ the tide roll away, ooh I’m sittin’ on the dock of the bay Wastin’ time ---
**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:** [September 19, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/5459 "2014-09-19T13:52:00Z")
Then the tide rushes in And washes my castles away. Then I’m really not so sure Which side of the bed I should lay ---
**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:** [September 19, 2014, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/5460 "2014-09-19T13:59:20Z")
There is a lady all in white, Holds me and sings a lullaby, She’s nice to see and she’s soft to touch, She says “Cosette, I love you very much.” I know a place where no one’s lost, I know a place where no one cries, Crying at all is not allowed, Not in my castle on a cloud. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502.md?page=272) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502.md?page=274)