# Speak to me in succinct song lyrics

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**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\
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**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:** [January 4, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2801 "2015-01-04T02:50:26Z")

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Sometimes, all I need is the air that I breathe

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**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:** [January 4, 2015, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2802 "2015-01-04T03:23:30Z")

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I’ve found grace inside a sound  
I found grace, it’s all that I found  
And I can breathe  
Breathe now

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**Author:** ![G\_MONEY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@G\_MONEY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G_MONEY)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2015, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2803 "2015-01-04T04:31:30Z")

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Air can hurt you too  
Air can hurt you too  
Some people say not to worry about the air  
Some people never had experience with…

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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:** [January 4, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2804 "2015-01-04T16:04:36Z")

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Pollution, pollution!  
Wear a gas mask and a veil.  
Then you can breathe,  
Long as you don’t inhale!

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**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:** [January 4, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2805 "2015-01-04T18:31:36Z")

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The smoke is rising  
The vision’s getting clearer  
And words become a song  
In the dreamtime

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**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:** [January 4, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2806 "2015-01-04T18:43:56Z")

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I will have my dreamtime  
My dreamtime, my dreamtime  
The only thing untouched that’s mine  
I will have my dreamtime

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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:** [January 4, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2807 "2015-01-04T18:58:23Z")

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Wake me up before you go-go

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**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:** [January 4, 2015, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2808 "2015-01-04T19:32:04Z")

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Whoa, come with me now  
I’m gonna take you down  
Whoa, come with me now  
I’m gonna show you how

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**Author:** ![G\_MONEY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@G\_MONEY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G_MONEY)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2015, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2809 "2015-01-04T21:29:09Z")

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Think you heard this all before  
Now you’re gonna hear some more  
I know a place where dreams get crushed  
Hopes are smashed but that ain’t much  
Voluntary experimentation  
Going through soft core mutation  
I’m going under

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**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:** [January 4, 2015, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2810 "2015-01-04T22:45:09Z")

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Soon the brightness fades, and even dreams are too far  
Then your life becomes a prison  
All the bars are solid, made by your own hands  
Then you’re just a voice with silent demands

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**Author:** ![G\_MONEY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@G\_MONEY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G_MONEY)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2811 "2015-01-04T23:38:43Z")

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But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die

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**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:** [January 5, 2015, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2812 "2015-01-05T15:14:49Z")

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Humming  
All the way to Reno  
You’ve dusted the non-believers  
And challenged the laws of chance

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**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:** [January 5, 2015, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2813 "2015-01-05T18:10:30Z")

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Where the Walker runs down to the Carson Valley Plain,  
there lived a maiden, Darcy Farrow was her name.  
The daughter of old Dundee, and a fair one was she,  
the sweetest flower that bloomed o’er the range.

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**Author:** ![justmeetee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@justmeetee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justmeetee)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2814 "2015-01-05T18:25:36Z")

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Take me across the water 'cause I need a place to hide  
I done the rancher’s daughter and I sure did hurt his pride

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**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:** [January 5, 2015, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2815 "2015-01-05T21:20:20Z")

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You’re a farmer’s daughter, you’re a farmer’s daughter  
Why do I always get the kinda girl I didn’t oughta get?  
I won’t get no more eggs and water  
Now I’ve laid the farmer’s daughter

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**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:** [January 6, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2816 "2015-01-06T01:59:44Z")

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I want the one I cannot have  
And it’s driving me mad  
Ohhh whoa-ohhh ohh ohhhh…

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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:** [January 6, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2817 "2015-01-06T02:53:48Z")

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Gone is the romance that once was so fine  
It’s shattered and cannot be mended  
You must go your way and I must go mine  
But now that the romance has ended

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**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:** [January 6, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2818 "2015-01-06T14:11:40Z")

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You can go your own way  
Go your own way  
You an call it  
Another lonely day  
You can go your own way  
Go your own way

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**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:** [January 6, 2015, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2819 "2015-01-06T14:32:29Z")

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They left before the sun came up that day  
They just drove off and left it all behind 'em  
But where were they going without ever  
Knowing the way?

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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:** [January 6, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/2820 "2015-01-06T14:49:43Z")

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We are going; heaven knows where we are going,  
We’ll know we’re there.

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