# \[GAME\] 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\
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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/41 "2013-05-17T20:18:29Z")

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Crying won’t help you, and praying won’t do you no good.  
Crying won’t help you, and praying won’t do you no good,  
When the levee breaks, Mama, you got to move.

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/42 "2013-05-17T21:27:10Z")

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I’m all cried out, yes I’m all cried out. All my little tears are all dried out, oh yeah.  
Now that you say we’re through, I’m all cried out over you.

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**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/43 "2013-05-17T21:34:25Z")

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Cry, cry if it makes you feel better.  
Set it all down in a tear-stained letter.

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**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:** [May 17, 2013, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/44 "2013-05-17T21:38:08Z")

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If you look closer it’s easy to trace the tracks of my tears.

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/45 "2013-05-17T22:07:54Z")

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You keep saying you’ve got something for me, something you call love, but confess.  
You’ve been messin’ where you shouldn’t have been a messin’ and now someone else is gettin’ all your best.

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**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:** [May 17, 2013, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/46 "2013-05-17T22:11:21Z")

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Why, why, why, Delilah? Why, why, why, Delilah?  
And so, before they come to break down the door.  
Forgive me, Delilah, I just couldn’t take any more.

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/47 "2013-05-17T22:19:28Z")

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The judge said guilty in a make believe trial. Slapped the sheriff on the back with a smile and said, Suppers waiting at home and I got to get to it.

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**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:** [May 17, 2013, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/48 "2013-05-17T22:25:07Z")

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The account of the capture wasn’t in the papers  
But you know, they hanged ole Smack right then instead of later  
You know the people were quite pleased  
'Cause the outlaw had been seized  
And on the whole, it was a very good year  
For the undertaker

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/49 "2013-05-17T22:33:53Z")

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He said “I saw two men running out they looked like middleweights  
They jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates”  
And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head

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**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:** [May 17, 2013, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/50 "2013-05-17T22:39:58Z")

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One lazy afternoon down Savannah way,  
They robbed a store, and high-tailed outa that town  
Got clean away in a stolen car,  
And waited till the heat died down,

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**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/51 "2013-05-17T22:50:40Z")

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So when the posse came ridin’, Billy went hidin’ down south.  
Holed up in a shack with Maria with the black hair and the ruby red mouth.

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/52 "2013-05-17T23:04:24Z")

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Out there, the law is coming, I’ve been so tired of runnin’

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**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:** [May 17, 2013, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/53 "2013-05-17T23:07:30Z")

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Indiana wants me, Lord, I can’t go back there!

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/54 "2013-05-17T23:27:50Z")

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Gonna let it rock. Let it roll. Let the Bible Belt come down. And Save My soul.  
Hold on to 16 as long as you can. Changes come around real soon. Make us women and men.

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**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/55 "2013-05-18T00:12:54Z")

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Girls will be boys and boys will be girls  
It’s a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for Lola

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**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/56 "2013-05-18T01:02:58Z")

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We have all been here before,  
We have all been here before.

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**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:** [May 18, 2013, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/57 "2013-05-18T01:14:52Z")

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And so it seems that we have met before  
And laughed before, and loved before  
But who knows where or when

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/58 "2013-05-18T07:45:28Z")

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Yes, now you’re gone and from this moment on  
I’ll be crying

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**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:** [May 18, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/59 "2013-05-18T14:48:38Z")

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Crying to the sky  
Searching for a silver lining  
Hoping that the clouds I’m climbing aren’t hiding rain

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**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:** [May 18, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-speak-to-me-only-in-song-lyrics/658502/60 "2013-05-18T16:19:38Z")

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Every time it rains it rains pennies from heaven.  
Don’t you know each cloud contains pennies from heaven?

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