# 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:** 242
**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:** [December 7, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4821 "2015-12-07T17:18:42Z")
Relax, don’t do it When you want to go to it Relax, don’t do it When you want to come ---
**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:** [December 7, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4822 "2015-12-07T18:04:26Z")
She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak I’ve been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks ---
**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:** [December 7, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4823 "2015-12-07T19:30:15Z")
You grew on me like a tumor And you spread through me like malignant melanoma And now you’re in my heart I should have cut you out back at the start And now I’m afraid there’s no cure for me No dose of emotional chemotherapy Can halt my pathetic decline Should have had you removed back when you were benign ---
**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:** [December 8, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4824 "2015-12-08T02:52:05Z")
I like takin’ Tuinal It keeps me edgy and mean I am a teenage schizoid I am a teenage dope fiend I am a kid in the nuthouse I am a kid in the psycho zone Psycho Therapy I’m gonna burglarize your 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:** [December 8, 2015, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4825 "2015-12-08T05:09:25Z")
Hold out your arms Be ready to take all that’s coming Shock treatment, you won’t feel the pain Shock treatment, you’ll cry out in vain Give up your heart You won’t need it where you are going Shock treatment, you won’t feel the pain Shock treatment, they’ll do it to you again and again and again ---
**Author:** ![zadscmc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a183cd/32.png) [@zadscmc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zadscmc)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4826 "2015-12-08T18:47:57Z")
Oh oh catch that buzz Love is the drug I’m thinking of Oh oh can’t you see Love is the drug for me ---
**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:** [December 8, 2015, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4827 "2015-12-08T22:08:10Z")
I want a new drug One that won’t make me sick One that won’t make me crash my car Or make me feel three feet thick ---
**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:** [December 9, 2015, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4828 "2015-12-09T17:48:20Z")
So you ride yourselves over the fields And you make all your animal deals And your wise men don’t know how it feels To be thick as a brick ---
**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:** [December 9, 2015, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4829 "2015-12-09T18:16:48Z")
Dreams of Elysian To assume are gone when we try Tell now what is dreaming When we try I listen with my eyes, oversimplify West of the fields, west of the fields ---
**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:** [December 9, 2015, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4830 "2015-12-09T18:21:26Z")
Tell the Moondog, tell the March Hare, Tell the Moondog, tell the March Hare, We have Heaven ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4831 "2015-12-09T19:12:08Z")
Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens ---
**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:** [December 10, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4832 "2015-12-10T01:56:23Z")
Nothing ever happens Nothing ever matters No one ever tells me so what I am to know You wouldn’t read about it Read about it One unjust, ridiculous steal ---
**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:** [December 10, 2015, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4833 "2015-12-10T12:41:32Z")
Nothing bad ever happens to me Nothing bad ever happens to me Why should I care? ---
**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:** [December 10, 2015, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4834 "2015-12-10T14:24:03Z")
I was watching my TV one night when they broke in with a special report About some devastating earthquake in Peru There were thirty thousand crushed to death, even more were buried alive On the Richter scale it measured 8.2 And I said, "God, please answer me one question? “Why’d they have to interrupt ‘The Simpsons’ just for this?” What a drag, 'cause I was taping it and everything And now I’ll have to wait for the rerun to see the part of the show I missed Why does this always happen? Why does this always happen to 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:** [December 10, 2015, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4835 "2015-12-10T17:50:23Z")
There’s something moving through the air Years ago, it wasn’t there If people feel it, they don’t care Seems like everybody’s sterilised A piece is missing from their lives They’re never going to be surprised I don’t know where it comes from Don’t ask me where it comes from ---
**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:** [December 10, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4836 "2015-12-10T20:20:32Z")
There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly clear There’s a man with a gun over there Telling me I’ve got to beware I think it’s time we stop Hey, what’s that sound? Everybody look what’s going down ---
**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:** [December 10, 2015, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4837 "2015-12-10T23:11:09Z")
Everybody run, the Homecoming Queen’s got a gun! Everybody run, the Homecoming Queen has got a gun! Debbie’s smiling, and waving her gun Picking off cheerleaders one by one ---
**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:** [December 11, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4838 "2015-12-11T01:49:37Z")
Janie’s got a gun Janie’s got a gun Her whole world’s come undone From lookin’ straight at the sun ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4839 "2015-12-11T02:01:22Z")
The sound of gunfire, off in the distance, I’m getting used to it now Lived in a brownstone, lived in a ghetto, I’ve lived all over this town This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, This ain’t no fooling around No time for dancing, or lovey dovey, I ain’t got time for that now ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/4840 "2015-12-11T02:07:50Z")
They were closer now, Fernando. Every hour every minute seemed to last eternally. I was so afraid, Fernando. We were young and full of life and none of us prepared to die, And I’m not ashamed to say, The roar of guns and cannons almost made me cry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=241) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=243)