# 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:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3321 "2015-03-22T23:47:59Z")

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Oh! You Pretty Things  
Don’t you know you’re driving your Mamas and Papas insane  
Let me say it again  
You gotta make way for the Homo Superior

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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:** [March 24, 2015, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3322 "2015-03-24T04:18:59Z")

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Pretty woman look my way  
Pretty woman say you’ll stay with me  
'Cause I need you, I’ll treat you right  
Come with me baby, be mine tonight

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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:** [March 24, 2015, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3323 "2015-03-24T15:28:38Z")

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Come with me  
I will take you down to the very depths of your soul  
And I’ll make you burn  
See you, see you in hell  
See you, see you in hell

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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:** [March 24, 2015, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3324 "2015-03-24T17:07:40Z")

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I am the god of hellfire,  
And I bring you Fire!

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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:** [March 24, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3325 "2015-03-24T18:35:43Z")

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What if no one’s calling  
God then must be falling

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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:** [March 24, 2015, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3326 "2015-03-24T22:15:55Z")

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God only knows, God makes his plan  
The information’s not available to the mortal man  
We work at our jobs, collect our pay  
Believe we’re gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away

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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:** [March 24, 2015, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3327 "2015-03-24T22:18:17Z")

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If God had a face, what would it look like?  
And would you want to see  
If seeing meant that you would have to believe  
In things like Heaven and in Jesus and the saints  
And all the prophets? And…

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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:** [March 24, 2015, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3328 "2015-03-24T22:21:15Z")

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And Jesus was a sailor  
When he walked upon the water.  
And he spent a long time watching  
From a lonely wooden tower.

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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:** [March 24, 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3329 "2015-03-24T22:50:21Z")

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Drop kick me, Jesus through the goal posts of life  
Make me, oh make me, Lord more than I am  
Make me a piece in your master game plan  
Free from the earthly temptations below  
I’ve got the will, Lord if you’ve got the toe

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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:** [March 24, 2015, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3330 "2015-03-24T23:16:37Z")

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I’ve got the brains, you’ve got the looks  
Let’s make lots of money  
You’ve got the brawn, I’ve got the brains  
Let’s make lots of money

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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:** [March 25, 2015, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3331 "2015-03-25T12:50:57Z")

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We’re in the money,  
We’re in the money;  
We’ve got a lot of what it takes to get along!

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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:** [March 25, 2015, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3332 "2015-03-25T13:52:25Z")

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Painted lies on painted lips  
That promise heaven tastes like this  
I don’t believe that I believed in you  
All that money wants

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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:** [March 25, 2015, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3333 "2015-03-25T14:05:30Z")

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Oh, sweet painted lady  
Seems it’s always been the same  
Getting paid for being laid  
Guess that’s the name of the game

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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:** [March 25, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3334 "2015-03-25T14:50:26Z")

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Let her blow, let her blow  
Long and loud and hard and happy, let her blow  
No regrets, all my debts will be paid when I get laid  
Let her blow, let her blow, let her blow

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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:** [March 25, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3335 "2015-03-25T18:03:40Z")

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Into sight 60,000 years of light  
Fascination with a mountain put to sea  
Built to slay and conquer  
All with teeth of beasts

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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:** [March 25, 2015, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3336 "2015-03-25T22:08:29Z")

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We are free now, we can kill now,  
We can hate now, now we can end the world  
We’re not guilty, he was crazy  
And it’s been going on for ten thousand years!

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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:** [March 25, 2015, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3337 "2015-03-25T23:39:22Z")

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Oh I marched to the Battle of New Orleans  
At the end of the early British war  
A young land started growing  
The young blood started flowing  
But I ain’t marchin’ anymore

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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:** [March 26, 2015, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3338 "2015-03-26T00:06:22Z")

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In 1814 we took a little trip  
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississippi  
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans  
And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans.

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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:** [March 26, 2015, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3339 "2015-03-26T15:14:20Z")

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The bloody cops are bloody keen to bloody keep it bloody clean  
The bloody chief’s a bloody swine who bloody draws a bloody line  
At bloody fun and bloody games the bloody kids he bloody blames  
Are nowhere to be bloody found anywhere in chicken town

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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:** [March 26, 2015, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3340 "2015-03-26T16:16:26Z")

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There was blood on the saddle  
And blood all around  
And a great big puddle  
Of blood on the ground

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