# Speak to me in succinct song lyrics

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666>\
**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:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3141 "2015-02-21T17:13:24Z")

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Are you going to Scarborough Fair?  
Parsley, sage rosemary and thyme.  
Remember me to the one who lives there.  
She once was a true love of mine.

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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:** [February 21, 2015, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3142 "2015-02-21T18:49:11Z")

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Nothing else can break my heart like  
True love, true love,  
It must be true love  
No one else can break my heart like you

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**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:** [February 21, 2015, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3143 "2015-02-21T18:54:34Z")

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Love grows where my Rosemary goes  
And nobody knows like me.

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**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2015, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3144 "2015-02-22T01:48:07Z")

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Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.  
Remember me to one who lives there.  
She once was a true love of mine.

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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:** [February 22, 2015, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3145 "2015-02-22T01:52:04Z")

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Umm, [3140](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18151934&postcount=3140)?

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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:** [February 22, 2015, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3146 "2015-02-22T02:22:15Z")

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Fill my eyes with that double vision  
No disguise for that double vision  
Ooh, when it gets through to me, it’s always new to me  
My double vision gets the best of me

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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:** [February 22, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3147 "2015-02-22T02:52:42Z")

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Blinded by the light  
Revved up like a deuce  
Another runner in the night

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**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2015, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3148 "2015-02-22T06:10:32Z")

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Little Deuce Coupe  
You don’t know what I’ve got

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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:** [February 22, 2015, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3149 "2015-02-22T15:44:33Z")

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And honey, I say Little Red Corvette  
Baby, you’re much too fast  
(Oh)  
Little Red Corvette  
You need a love that’s gonna last

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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:** [February 22, 2015, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3150 "2015-02-22T16:07:37Z")

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Little GTO, you’re really lookin’ fine  
Three deuces and a four-speed and a 389  
Listen to her tachin’ up now, listen to her why-ee-eye-ine  
C’mon and turn it on, wind it up, blow it out GTO

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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:** [February 22, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3151 "2015-02-22T21:27:35Z")

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Understand - I don’t drive drunk  
My 98’s fly - I don’t drive no junk  
No cop gotta a right to call me a punk  
Take this ticket - go to hell and stick it

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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:** [February 22, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3152 "2015-02-22T21:34:13Z")

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Take this job and shove it  
I ain’t working here no more

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**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3153 "2015-02-23T01:16:33Z")

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Workin’ 9 to 5  
What a way to make a livin’  
Barely gettin’ by  
It’s all takin’ and no givin’

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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:** [February 23, 2015, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3154 "2015-02-23T01:31:25Z")

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I get home at five o’clock  
And I take myself out a nice, cold beer  
Always seem to be wonderin’  
Why there’s nothin’ goin’ down here

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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:** [February 23, 2015, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3155 "2015-02-23T01:42:01Z")

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Well, I woke up this morning, I got myself a beer  
Well, I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer  
The future’s uncertain and the end is always near

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**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3156 "2015-02-23T02:22:09Z")

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When I woke up this morning  
You were on my mi-i-i-ind and  
You were on my mind  
I got troubles, whoa-oh  
I got worries, whoa-oh  
I got wounds to bind

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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:** [February 23, 2015, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3157 "2015-02-23T03:39:57Z")

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I woke up in love this morning  
I woke up in love this morning  
Went to sleep with you on my mind

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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:** [February 23, 2015, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3158 "2015-02-23T15:30:09Z")

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We are waking up  
Yeah, We are Fallen  
Like the mourning sun  
It’s just begun  
This old world will pass away  
This is the dawn of our new day

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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:** [February 23, 2015, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3159 "2015-02-23T18:30:48Z")

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This is the dawning of a new era.

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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:** [February 23, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3160 "2015-02-23T18:33:02Z")

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It’s a new dawn  
It’s a new day  
It’s a new life  
For me  
And I’m feeling good

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