# 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:** 157
**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:** [February 18, 2015, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3121 "2015-02-18T22:26:09Z")
Oh yeah, I’ll tell you something I think you’ll understand When I’ll say that something, I wanna hold your hand I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand ---
**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:** [February 19, 2015, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3122 "2015-02-19T00:13:06Z")
Take a look at yourself, and you can look at others diff’rently Put your hand in the hand of the man from Galilee ---
**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:** [February 19, 2015, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3123 "2015-02-19T01:44:44Z")
Elixir of laughter seeps from the whim Of a man distant from misery Removed from treachery ---
**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:** [February 19, 2015, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3124 "2015-02-19T02:21:45Z")
Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend. Do it in the name of Heaven, you can justify it in the end. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2015, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3125 "2015-02-19T02:45:53Z")
You put this in me So now what, so now what? Wanting, needing, waiting For you to justify my love ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3126 "2015-02-19T05:03:48Z")
What the world needs now is love, sweet love It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of What the world needs now is love, sweet love No, not just for some but for everyone ---
**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:** [February 19, 2015, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3127 "2015-02-19T14:16:29Z")
I’ll give you all I got to give if you say you’ll love me too I may not have a lot to give but what I got I’ll give to you I don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love ---
**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:** [February 19, 2015, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3128 "2015-02-19T17:14:13Z")
I walked away, now remember me lover I told you lies, now remember me lover I took your money, remember me lover I ruined your life, now remember me lover ---
**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:** [February 19, 2015, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3129 "2015-02-19T18:37:48Z")
If you read the history books you’ll see the same things happen again and again Repeat repeat short memory they’ve all got it When are we going to play it again Got a short, got a short, got a short, got a short memory… ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2015, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3130 "2015-02-19T22:39:46Z")
Try to remember the kind of September When grass was green and grain was yellow ---
**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:** [February 20, 2015, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3131 "2015-02-20T03:20:11Z")
When some cold tomorrow finds you When some sad old dream reminds you How the endless road unwinds you While you see a chance take it ---
**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:** [February 20, 2015, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3132 "2015-02-20T03:32:39Z")
Chances are, 'cause I wear that silly grin The moment you come into view Chances are you think that I’m in love with you ---
**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:** [February 20, 2015, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3133 "2015-02-20T16:44:06Z")
How unintentional, a random whim Coincidental, a shallow thing Home-it’s so far away now Pure chance It’s so far, it’s so far away now ---
**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:** [February 20, 2015, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3134 "2015-02-20T16:53:12Z")
Everybody at your party They don’t look depressed Everybody dressin’ funny Color me impressed ---
**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:** [February 20, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3135 "2015-02-20T18:57:48Z")
Clean shirt, new shoes, and I don’t know where I am goin’ to Silk suit, black tie, I don’t need a reason why They come runnin’ just as fast as they can 'Cause every girl crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2015, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3136 "2015-02-21T00:13:04Z")
He wears tan shoes with pink shoelaces A polka dot vest and man, oh, man Tan shoes with pink shoelaces And a big Panama with a purple hat band ---
**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:** [February 21, 2015, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3137 "2015-02-21T01:48:16Z")
Black Coat, White Shoes, Black Hat, Cadillac, yeah, the boy’s a time bomb. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2015, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3138 "2015-02-21T02:28:56Z")
Her long blonde hair Falling down across her arms Hiding all the lady’s charms ---
**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:** [February 21, 2015, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3139 "2015-02-21T13:35:31Z")
Comb out your long blonde hair We’ll ride the waves till someone wakes us They called you the hyacinth girl White flower alone in the woods ---
**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:** [February 21, 2015, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3140 "2015-02-21T17:08:22Z")
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