# 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:** 189
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2015, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3761 "2015-06-08T21:59:48Z")
I saw her sitting in the rain Raindrops falling on her She didn’t seem to care She sat there and smiled at me ---
**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:** [June 9, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3762 "2015-06-09T00:05:50Z")
On the dry and dusty road The nights we spend apart alone I need to get back home to cool, cool rain I can’t sleep, and I lay, and I think The night is hot and black as ink Oh God, I need a drink of cool, cool rain ---
**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:** [June 9, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3763 "2015-06-09T00:52:00Z")
[Hmm someone follows up a Stones song by pasting in one about rainbows, but it isn’t She’s a Rainbow? :D] I’m walking in the rain to end this misery I’m walking in the rain to celebrate this misery Pounding the road, coast to coast I can’t sleep at night; how I wish you’d hold me tight ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3764 "2015-06-09T22:58:16Z")
I go out walkin’ after midnight Out in the starlight, just hoping you may be Somewhere a-walkin’ after midnight Searchin’ for me. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2015, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3765 "2015-06-10T01:07:05Z")
There’s a strange new light in my eyes Things I’ve never known Changin’ my life, changin’ me I’ve been searchin’ so long to find an answer Now I know my life has meaning ---
**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:** [June 10, 2015, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3766 "2015-06-10T01:27:05Z")
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes (Turn and face the strange) Ch-ch-Changes Just gonna have to be a different man ---
**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:** [June 10, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3767 "2015-06-10T02:37:02Z")
It’s kind of a special feeling When you’re out on the sea alone Staring at the full moon like a lover Time for a cool change ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3768 "2015-06-10T14:44:36Z")
I recall the tune that I sang to the moon and it seemed to make it smile And I rode away at the close of the day and I stayed so long a while But I long to be where the memory is ringing One more ride, one more ride ---
**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:** [June 10, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3769 "2015-06-10T17:37:35Z")
Once upon a night we’ll wake to the carnival of life The beauty of this ride ahead such an incredible high It’s hard to light a candle, easy to curse the dark instead This moment the dawn of humanity The last ride of the day ---
**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:** [June 10, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3770 "2015-06-10T18:47:41Z")
We’re riding on the escalator of life We’re shopping in the human mall We’re dancing on the escalator of life Won’t be happy 'til we have it all We want it all - escalator of life (up and down) Escalator of life (round and round) ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3771 "2015-06-11T00:18:29Z")
Suspended under a twilight canopy We’ll search the clouds for a star to guide us on If by some chance you find yourself loving me We’ll find a cloud to hide us, keep the moon beside us Love is waiting there in my beautiful balloon Way up in the air in my beautiful balloon ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3772 "2015-06-11T04:39:01Z")
If you love me let me know If you don’t then let me go I can’t take another minute Of a day without you in it ---
**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:** [June 11, 2015, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3773 "2015-06-11T12:32:33Z")
I’m dreaming You’re awake If I were sleeping What’s at stake A day without me ---
**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:** [June 11, 2015, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3774 "2015-06-11T19:31:41Z")
Wake up! You can’t remember where it was Had this dream stopped? The snake was pale gold glazed and shrunken We were afraid to touch it The sheets were hot dead prisons ---
**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:** [June 11, 2015, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3775 "2015-06-11T21:47:23Z")
Once I got locked up in a dirty old jail. And the coffee was cold and the cornbread was stale. And I didn’t cry, I tried to be brace Till the warden tried to give me a haircut and a shave. ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3776 "2015-06-11T22:36:11Z")
Then I awake and look around me, At the four gray walls that surround me, And I realize that I was only dreaming. For there’s a guard, and there’s a sad old padre, Arm in arm, we’ll walk at daybreak. Again, I’ll touch the green, green grass of home. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3777 "2015-06-11T22:38:41Z")
Day by day, day by day Oh, dear Lord, three things I pray. To see thee more clearly. Love thee more dearly. Follow thee more nearly Day by day by day by day by day. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2015, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3778 "2015-06-12T01:05:01Z")
I was on the inside when they pulled the four walls down I was looking through the window-I was lost, I am found If you walk away, walk away I walk away, walk away, I will follow ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3779 "2015-06-12T05:42:40Z")
Just walk away, Renee You won’t see me follow you back home Now, as the rain beats down upon my weary eyes For me, it cries Your name and mine inside a heart upon a wall Still finds a way to haunt me though they’re so small ---
**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:** [June 12, 2015, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/3780 "2015-06-12T14:45:34Z")
We have lost the time That was so hard to find And I will lose my mind If you won’t see me (You won’t see me) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=188) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=190)