# 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:** 213
**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:** [August 28, 2015, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4241 "2015-08-28T11:11:54Z")
Seek her Seduce her Tame her Blame her Have her Kill her Seek her Seduce her Tame her Blame her Feast on it all ---
**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:** [August 28, 2015, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4242 "2015-08-28T11:35:48Z")
Each day - move closer to Where the noise uplifts my soul, where the “wilful” man shall go Start here - let’s make our way And the mess the fools have made won’t stop us in our way The feast of blaze, la-la The feast of blaze, la-la ---
**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:** [August 28, 2015, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4243 "2015-08-28T12:14:15Z")
I am the god of hell fire and I bring you: Fire I’ll take you to burn. Fire ---
**Author:** ![MrQwertyasd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@MrQwertyasd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrQwertyasd)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4244 "2015-08-28T18:32:24Z")
Babylon’s burning You’re burning the street You’re burning your houses With anxiety ---
**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:** [August 28, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4245 "2015-08-28T19:34:23Z")
How I (know) - how I know, how I (know) - how I know - And that’s how I know: A Reggae Music, chant down - chant down - chant down Babylon, Chant down Babylon, chant down Babylon, Chant down Babylon! ---
**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:** [August 29, 2015, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4246 "2015-08-29T15:25:47Z")
Look away from the sea, I can take you anywhere Spend a vision with me, a chase with the wind Move closer to me, I can make you anyone I think you’re ready to see The Gates of Babylon ---
**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:** [August 29, 2015, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4247 "2015-08-29T15:29:56Z")
Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2015, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4248 "2015-08-29T15:45:53Z")
So when did you throw out the rest of the world Deaf from the din of your self-righteous babble? I think you’ve been blinded by your own light ---
**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:** [August 29, 2015, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4249 "2015-08-29T16:31:08Z")
So high in my lovely Ivory Tower of Babel (babble, babble, babble, Babble, babble, babble, babble) high above the Rabble (rabble, rabble, rabble, Babble, Rabble, babble, babble, rabble, babble) Greatest mind of history Solving life’s sweet mystery So listen to me (so listen to me) Know how life should be (know how life should be) Oh, what does it matter if they don’t agree? ---
**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:** [August 29, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4250 "2015-08-29T16:39:20Z")
Just give me an hour and then - Well, I’ll be as high As that ivory tower That you’re livin’ in . ---
**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:** [August 29, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4251 "2015-08-29T17:03:55Z")
Now that I’ve taken my life, remembering the April air My hands in a cursory prayer my eyes and the crowd outside The music is merry the laughter is comfortably loud outside And the laughter I’m hearing is mine Now that I’ve taken my life It was a foolish life I know ivory towered and quite out of touch It was a life that had to go I guess I won’t miss it much ---
**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:** [August 29, 2015, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4252 "2015-08-29T17:08:07Z")
Betrayed by innocence, deceived by delusions Plagiarized promises pale into empty hopes Ivory towers bow down in reverence to daylight As dreamers awaken in sleepers’ somber shade ---
**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:** [August 29, 2015, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4253 "2015-08-29T17:11:25Z")
If I die young, bury me in satin Lay me down on a bed of roses Sink me in a river at dawn Send me away with the words of a love song ---
**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:** [August 29, 2015, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4254 "2015-08-29T19:27:20Z")
The mermaid grace, the forever call Beauty in spygladd on an old man’s porch The mermaids you turn loose brought back your tears At the end of the river the sundown beams ---
**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:** [August 29, 2015, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4255 "2015-08-29T19:32:49Z")
> [@CheshireKat](#): > > Blinded by the light, > revved up like a deuce, > another runner in the night [I think](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18642113&highlight=deuce#post18642113) [the Boss](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18587267&highlight=deuce#post18587267) [here can be](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18152935&highlight=deuce#post18152935) [safely retired](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17586080&highlight=deuce#post17586080) [at this point.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=726911&highlight=deuce)[Along](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18589625&highlight=deuce#post18589625) [with the](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18153259&highlight=deuce#post18153259) [Prince song](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17585587&highlight=deuce#post17585587). 😃 [To be fair, I’ve used the above Nightwish song before, but not that stanza] ---
**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:** [August 30, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4256 "2015-08-30T20:23:09Z")
Big boss man, can’t you hear me when I call? Big boss man, can’t you hear me when I call? You ain’t so big, you just tall, that’s just about all ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4257 "2015-08-30T20:30:23Z")
Big Sky looked down on all the people who think they got problems They get depressed and they hold their head in their hands and cry. People lift up their hands and they look up to the Big Sky But Big Sky is too big to sympathize ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2015, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4258 "2015-08-30T22:12:25Z")
O’ man river, Dat ol’ man river, He mus’know sumpin’ But don’t say nuthin’ He jes’ keeps rollin’ He keeps on rollin’ along ---
**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:** [August 31, 2015, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4259 "2015-08-31T02:36:57Z")
When the sun goes down the tide goes out The people gather round and they all begin to shout Hey hey Uncle Dud it’s a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud It’s a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud ---
**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:** [August 31, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4260 "2015-08-31T02:49:03Z")
When the sun comes up on a sleepy little town Down around San Antone And the folks are risin’ for another day 'Round about their homes The people of the town are strange And they’re proud of where they came [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=212) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=214)