# 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:** 203
**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:** [July 27, 2015, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4041 "2015-07-27T14:43:27Z")
And if I stay here with you girl Things just couldn’t even be the same 'Cause I’m as free as a bird now And this bird you cannot change ---
**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:** [July 27, 2015, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4042 "2015-07-27T19:10:24Z")
My high-flying bird has flown from out my arms I thought myself her keeper, she thought I meant her harm She thought I was the archer, a weather man of words But I could never shoot down my high-flying bird ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4043 "2015-07-27T20:01:27Z")
White bird must fly Or she will die White bird Dreams of the aspen tree With their dying leaves Turning gold But the white bird Just sits in her cage Growing old. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2015, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4044 "2015-07-27T20:17:47Z")
Just like the white winged dove Sings a song, sounds like she’s singin’ Whoo, baby, whoo Said, whoo ---
**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:** [July 27, 2015, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4045 "2015-07-27T23:34:42Z")
For just this Skyline Pigeon Dreaming of the open Waiting for the day When she can spread her wings And fly away again Fly away Skyline Pigeon fly Towards the dreams You’ve left so very far behind ---
**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:** [July 28, 2015, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4046 "2015-07-28T08:02:54Z")
Who put fifty tons of shit on the Foreign Office roof? Who suffers from nine known diseases? Who gets up in the morning when the sun comes up And makes their beds, paper clips, bus tickets all around their heads? Who congregate around Trafalgar Square taking pot shots at the tourists? Oh, you’ve got to watch out When you wander round the square in the morning Cos they’re everywhere, they’re everywhere ---
**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:** [July 28, 2015, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4047 "2015-07-28T14:01:43Z")
When the party was nice, the party was bumpin’ {Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo} And everybody havin’ a ball {Hah, ho, Yippie Yi Yo} Untill the fellas ": start the name callin’: " {Yippie Yi Yo} And the girls respond to the call, I heard a poor man shout out Who let the dogs out {woof, woof, woof, woof} Who let the dogs out {woof, woof, woof, woof} Who let the dogs out {woof, woof, woof, woof} Who let the dogs out {woof, woof, woof, woof} ---
**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:** [July 28, 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4048 "2015-07-28T15:49:18Z")
Now hounds of love are hunting. I’ve always been a coward, And I don’t know what’s good for me. Here I go! It’s coming for me through the trees. Help me, someone, help me, please! ---
**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:** [July 28, 2015, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4049 "2015-07-28T15:52:47Z")
Screams break the silence - waking from the dead of night Vengence is boiling - he’s returned to kill the light Then when he’s found who he’s looking for Listen in awe and you’ll hear him Bark at the moon (Ha ha ha ha ha…) ---
**Author:** ![zadscmc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a183cd/32.png) [@zadscmc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zadscmc)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4050 "2015-07-28T16:36:01Z")
Better stay away from him He’ll rip your lungs out, Jim I’d like to meet his tailor Werewolves of London ---
**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:** [July 29, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4051 "2015-07-29T00:05:56Z")
The bats have left the bell tower The victims have been bled Red velvet lines the black box Bela Lugosi’s dead Undead undead undead ---
**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:** [July 29, 2015, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4052 "2015-07-29T11:37:38Z")
Death walks inside you, smell death around you Hell’s evil spell takes a soul Hear the sound of the bell counting off death’s toll Laughing as you eternally rot Searching for human flesh and life’s blood Live undead!!! ---
**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:** [July 29, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4053 "2015-07-29T16:45:58Z")
Where do bad folks go when they die? They don’t go to heaven where the angels fly They go down to the lake of fire and fry Won’t see them again till the fourth of July ---
**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:** [July 29, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4054 "2015-07-29T21:17:51Z")
I was born of the fourth of July. No one more loyal than I. When my country said so I was ready to go. And I wish I’d been left there to die. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4055 "2015-07-29T21:34:02Z")
All is quiet on New Year’s Day A world in white gets underway I want to be with you, be with you night and day Nothing changes on New Year’s Day ---
**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:** [July 29, 2015, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4056 "2015-07-29T21:41:30Z")
She calls to you from every shadow, and you think you see her silhouette A dream that you cant quite remember But a face you cant forget The Women In White (Will haunt you, will haunt you) The Women In White (Will haunt you, forever) ---
**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:** [July 30, 2015, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4057 "2015-07-30T00:45:51Z")
Behind the curtains silhouettes are disembodied Dancing in the frame (frame frame frame) And with all the conversations over The quiet freezes like they never came (came came came) Pull me up from deep inside this pillow Feathers soft I lay my head in sorrow There’s caverns dark and then there’s eyes that stare And I hear fingers snapping but there’s no one there ---
**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:** [July 30, 2015, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4058 "2015-07-30T02:15:42Z")
The pillow that you made for me, it was soft with feather down. And the headboard, it came from an old house That was about to be torn down. And the songs you always sang to me, oh, as I fall asleep - Did they sound the same to her in the bed you made for 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:** [July 30, 2015, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4059 "2015-07-30T02:34:35Z")
Home from work our Juliet clears her morning meal She dabs her skin with pretty smells concealing to appeal “I will make my bed,” she said, but turned to go Can she be late for her cinema show? ---
**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:** [July 30, 2015, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4060 "2015-07-30T12:14:21Z")
Somewhere far away there’s another day And someone’s getting out of bed She puts on her face in the morning space She doesn’t know if she’s dead Her ruby lips can’t excite me anymore [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=202) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=204)