# 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:** 231
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4601 "2015-10-26T20:26:44Z")
Operator, you can forget about this call There’s no one there I really wanted to talk to Thank you for your time You’ve been so much more than kind You can keep the dime ---
**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:** [October 26, 2015, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4602 "2015-10-26T20:43:44Z")
Operator Give me information Information Give me long distance Long distance Give me heaven… ---
**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:** [October 26, 2015, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4603 "2015-10-26T23:58:45Z")
Long distance run around Long time waiting to feel the sound I still remember the dream there I still remember the time you said goodbye ---
**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:** [October 27, 2015, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4604 "2015-10-27T00:34:45Z")
I’m a million miles away A million miles away I’m just a million miles away And there’s nothing left to bring me back today ---
**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:** [October 27, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4605 "2015-10-27T00:41:37Z")
93 million miles from the Sun, people get ready get ready, 'cause here it comes it’s a light, a beautiful light, over the horizon into our eyes Oh, my my how beautiful, oh my beautiful mother She told me, “Son in life you’re gonna go far, and if you do it right you’ll love where you are Just know, that wherever you go, you can always come home” ---
**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:** [October 27, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4606 "2015-10-27T15:21:02Z")
By the look in your eye I can tell you’re gonna cry Is it over me? If it is, save your tears For I’m not worth it, you see For I’m the type of boy who is always on the roam Wherever I lay my hat that’s my 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:** [October 27, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4607 "2015-10-27T16:26:22Z")
Sweet darling (You can leave your hat on) Just leave your hat on, girl A little wild man (You can leave your hat on) Leave your hat on (You can leave your hat on) (You can leave your hat on) ---
**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:** [October 29, 2015, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4608 "2015-10-29T13:12:32Z")
I’m your private dancer, a dancer for money I’ll do what you want me to do I’m your private dancer, a dancer for money And any old music will do ---
**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:** [October 29, 2015, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4609 "2015-10-29T14:35:52Z")
Oh my music makes you dance And gives you spirit to take a chance And I wrote some rock ‘n’ roll so you can move Music fills your heart Well, that’s a real fine place to start It’s from me it’s for you It’s from you, it’s for me It’s a worldwide symphony ---
**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:** [October 29, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4610 "2015-10-29T15:17:38Z")
We fall, while aiming so high We crawl, flying Man has North, South, East and West Man has, trying A song for all seasons through ---
**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:** [October 29, 2015, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4611 "2015-10-29T22:31:03Z")
Now the power of the East is afraid of the West And the poor man starve as the rich man get obsessed So they’re piling up bombs in case the button gets pressed A young world dies before my eyes ---
**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:** [October 31, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4612 "2015-10-31T17:46:04Z")
For it’s Kissinger in China, oh, it’s Kissinger in Cairo and it’s Kissinger at NATO in the grand old power game But the white bones of Allende tell another darker story For you never got to Chile, but you killed it just the same And the white bones of Allende and the scattered bones of Chile Are the scream that breaks the silence of the thousands blown away Oh, the white bones of Allende and the scattered bones of Chile Are not silent, they are screaming, they’re your Peace Prize, Doctor K ---
**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:** [October 31, 2015, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4613 "2015-10-31T18:16:33Z")
The other night I dreamt a nice continental drift divide Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce, and Lester Bangs Birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean, boom You symbiotic, patriotic, slam but neck, right? Right ---
**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:** [October 31, 2015, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4614 "2015-10-31T18:42:06Z")
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television, North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom, Brando, The King and I, and The Catcher in the Rye Eisenhower, Vaccine, England’s got a new queen, Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye ---
**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:** [October 31, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4615 "2015-10-31T18:43:41Z")
Na-na na-na-na na na na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye Hey hey-hey, goodbye Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye ---
**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:** [October 31, 2015, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4616 "2015-10-31T23:32:25Z")
Good night to these wretched forms All them gray eyes on the subway So long before you were born You were always to be a dagger floating Straight to their heart ---
**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:** [November 1, 2015, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4617 "2015-11-01T03:26:29Z")
Comin’ straight on for you You made my mind Now I’m stronger, now I’m comin’ through Straight on, straight on for you Straight on for you ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4618 "2015-11-01T22:47:05Z")
Poor, poor pitiful me. Poor, poor pitiful me. Oh these girls won’t let me be! Lord have mercy on me. Woe, woe is 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:** [November 2, 2015, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4619 "2015-11-02T02:02:42Z")
Gloom, despair, and agony on me Deep, dark depression, excessive misery If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all Gloom, despair, and agony on me ---
**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:** [November 2, 2015, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4620 "2015-11-02T02:04:47Z")
Death, destruction, and despair People dying everywhere Happy Birthday (unhh) Happy Birthday (unhh) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=230) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=232)