# 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:** 130
**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 25, 2014, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2581 "2014-11-25T20:01:09Z")
Why don’t we do it in the road? Why don’t we do it in the road? No one will be watching us Why don’t we do it in the road? ---
**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 25, 2014, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2582 "2014-11-25T20:19:18Z")
One day I noticed the world at my feet Next day comes and it rolls into the street Gathering speed, paying no heed That made me bleed until I was blue But you know I never wanted to-ah, you know, I did it just for 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:** [November 25, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2583 "2014-11-25T22:00:41Z")
Don’t tell me it’s not worth tryin’ for. You can’t tell me it’s not worth dyin’ for. You know it’s true: Everything I do, I do it for you. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2014, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2584 "2014-11-26T00:39:22Z")
Everybody’s talkin’ at me, I don’t hear a word they’re sayin’ Only the echoes of my mind And I won’t let you leave my love behind ---
**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 26, 2014, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2585 "2014-11-26T01:47:00Z")
And deep beneath the rolling waves In labyrinths of coral caves An echo of a distant time Comes willowing across the sand And everything is green and submarine. ---
**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 26, 2014, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2586 "2014-11-26T09:01:32Z")
We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine ---
**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 26, 2014, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2587 "2014-11-26T13:02:14Z")
I want to bomb your submarines You don’t do anything for me You were sometimes hard to find You were never safe to be with, then ---
**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 26, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2588 "2014-11-26T18:40:30Z")
Well I could be boarding an aircraft With a bomb concealed in somebody’s briefcase And my body will spread through the heavens, across the sky And my ashes will fall through the cloudburst ---
**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 26, 2014, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2589 "2014-11-26T23:06:15Z")
Oh we will all char together when we char. And let there be no moaning of the bar. Just sing out a te deum When you see that ICBM And the party will be “come as you are.” ---
**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 27, 2014, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2590 "2014-11-27T10:45:03Z")
It’s Christmas at Ground Zero There’s panic in the crowd We can dodge debris while we trim the tree Underneath a mushroom cloud ---
**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 27, 2014, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2591 "2014-11-27T12:18:10Z")
Crowded streets, busy feet hustle by you Downtown shoppers Christmas is nigh There he sits all alone on the sidewalk Hoping that you won’t pass him by ---
**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 27, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2592 "2014-11-27T15:56:14Z")
Freezin’ rests his head on a pillow made of concrete again Oh Feelin’ maybe he’ll see a little betters any days Oh hand out faces that he sees come again ain’t that familiar Oh dark grin he can’t help when he’s happy he looks insane ---
**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 28, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2593 "2014-11-28T16:11:47Z")
Psycho therapy, psycho therapy, psycho therapy That’s what they wanna give me Psycho therapy, psycho therapy, psycho therapy All they wanna give me ---
**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 28, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2594 "2014-11-28T16:25:27Z")
Give me therapy, I’m a walking travesty, But I’m smiling at everything. Therapy, you were never a friend to me, You can take back your misery. ---
**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:** [November 28, 2014, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2595 "2014-11-28T20:50:08Z")
Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living. In an earthly tapestry hung from the skyline of smouldering cities so gray and so vulgar, as not to be satisfied with their own negativity but needing to touch all the living as well. ---
**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 28, 2014, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2596 "2014-11-28T21:03:07Z")
Pavements may teem With intense energy But the city is calm In this violent sea ---
**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:** [November 28, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2597 "2014-11-28T21:07:08Z")
I look to the sea. Reflections in the waves spark my memories. Some happy, some sad. I think of childhood friends and the dreams we had. ---
**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 29, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2598 "2014-11-29T13:50:14Z")
This used to be my playground. ---
**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 29, 2014, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2599 "2014-11-29T14:18:57Z")
Valerie, call on me Call on me, Valerie Come and see me I’m the same boy I used to be ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2014, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2600 "2014-11-30T04:51:33Z")
There’s a girl I know who makes me feel so good. And I wouldn’t live without her, even if I could. They call her Valleri. I love my Valleri. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=129) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=131)