# Speak to me in succinct song lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 26, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666 "2014-06-26T02:54:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 126
**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:** [November 15, 2014, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2501 "2014-11-15T02:07:27Z")
Can you hear it? The sound of something burning, something changing On the merry-go-round tonight The pictures on my wall are about to swing and fall ---
**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:** [November 15, 2014, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2502 "2014-11-15T02:10:17Z")
Could it be? Yes, it could. Something’s coming, something good, if I can wait Something’s coming, I don’t know what it is But it is gonna be great ---
**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:** [November 15, 2014, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2503 "2014-11-15T13:34:22Z")
Once upon a night we’ll wake to the carnival of life The beauty of this ride ahead such an incredible high It’s hard to light a candle, easy to curse the dark instead This moment the dawn of humanity, the last ride of the day ---
**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:** [November 15, 2014, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2504 "2014-11-15T14:12:27Z")
Life is a cabaret, old chum. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2505 "2014-11-15T15:49:33Z")
Life is a carnival Believe it or not Life is a carnival Two bits a shot ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2506 "2014-11-15T20:43:19Z")
‘Cause I’ve been blind Oh, so blind I wasted time Wasted, wasted, all too much time Walkin’ on the wire, high wire But I must let the show go… I must let the show go… I must let the show go on ---
**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:** [November 15, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2507 "2014-11-15T22:00:24Z")
We’re all alone on the stage tonight. We’ve been told we’re not afraid of you. We know all our lines so well, uh-huh. We’ve said them so many times: Time and time again, line and line again. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2508 "2014-11-16T01:02:47Z")
All the world’s indeed a stage And we are merely players, performers and portrayers Each another’s audience outside the gilded cage ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2014, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2509 "2014-11-16T15:57:42Z")
Outside the cage I see my Brother John, He turns his head so slowly round. I cry out help! before he can be gone, And he looks at me without a sound. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2014, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2510 "2014-11-16T16:56:34Z")
Soon the Gypsy Queen in a glaze of vaseline Will perform on guillotine, what a scene, what a scene Next upon the stand will you please extend a hand To Alexander’s Ragtime Band, Dixieland, Dixieland ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2014, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2511 "2014-11-16T18:17:01Z")
Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotton, Old times there are not forgotten. Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land! ---
**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:** [November 16, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2512 "2014-11-16T18:19:12Z")
Oh when those cotton balls get rotten You can’t pick you very much cotton In them old cotton fields back home ---
**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:** [November 16, 2014, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2513 "2014-11-16T18:31:05Z")
Rotten peaches rotting in the sun Seems I’ve seen that devil fruit since the world begun Mercy I’m a criminal, Jesus I’m the one Rotten peaches rotting in the sun ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2014, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2514 "2014-11-16T18:41:42Z")
The crops are all in and the peaches are rott’ning, The oranges piled in their creosote dumps; They’re flying 'em back to the Mexican border To pay all their money to wade back again ---
**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:** [November 16, 2014, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2515 "2014-11-16T18:49:09Z")
There’s a thump, a rumble, and the buildings sway A soldier fires the acid spray The public address system starts to play ‘South of the Border’ ---
**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:** [November 16, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2516 "2014-11-16T18:55:14Z")
It’s kinda like a lost and found in a border town Askin’ bout a diamond ring They just look at you like you’ve lost your mind Say they haven’t seen a thing ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2517 "2014-11-16T19:00:07Z")
Tomorrow my love and I Will sleep 'neath auburn skies Somewhere across the border ---
**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:** [November 16, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2518 "2014-11-16T19:03:26Z")
Somewhere out there Beneath the pale moonlight Someone’s thinking of me And loving me tonight ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2014, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2519 "2014-11-16T19:13:16Z")
Let’s sway you could look into my eyes Let’s sway under the moonlight, this serious moonlight ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2014, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2520 "2014-11-16T19:30:38Z")
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