# 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:** 291
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5801 "2016-05-09T20:28:17Z")
Don’t do me like that Don’t do me like that What if I love you baby? Don’t do me like that ---
**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:** [May 9, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5802 "2016-05-09T22:01:02Z")
You’re mean to me. Why must you be mean to me? Gee, honey, it seems to me You love to see me cryin’. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2016, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5803 "2016-05-09T22:05:21Z")
Tears on my pillow, pain in my heart, caused by you Love is not a gadget, love is not a toy When you find the one you love she’ll fill your heart with joy ---
**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:** [May 9, 2016, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5804 "2016-05-09T23:05:33Z")
Joy to the world All the boys and girls Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea Joy to you and 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:** [May 9, 2016, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5805 "2016-05-09T23:26:55Z")
After nine days I let the horse run free 'cause the desert had turned to sea There were plants and birds and rocks and things, there was sand and hills and rings The ocean is a desert with it’s life underground and a perfect disguise above Under the cities lies a heart made of ground but the humans will give no love ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5806 "2016-05-10T01:05:29Z")
So please believe in me When I say I’m spinning round, round, round, round Smoke glass stain bright color Image going down, down, down, down Soapsuds green like bubbles Oh, Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man That he didn’t, didn’t already have And Cause never was the reason for the evening Or the tropic of Sir Galahad ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5807 "2016-05-10T12:32:10Z")
Sweet Sir Galahad came in through the window in the night when the moon was in the yard. He took her hand in his and shook the long hair from his neck and he told her she’d been working much too hard. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5808 "2016-05-10T13:24:17Z")
Listen to me warden, won’t you listen to me beg Chop off a toe, a foot, or take a whole leg I’m down on my knees man, you’re robbing my strength Take it easy warden, won’t you leave me some length I want a lawyer warden, I want a priest Oh take it easy warden, leave the moustache at least ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5809 "2016-05-10T13:48:13Z")
I want long, straight, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty Oily, greasy, fleecy, shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen Knotted, polka dotted, twisted, beaded, braided Powered, flowered and confettied Bangled, tangled, spangled and spaghettied! ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5810 "2016-05-10T13:53:19Z")
Strange spaghetti in this solemn city… There’s a postcard we’re all seen before… Past wild-haired teens in dark clothing With hands-full of autographed napkins, We eat apples in vans with sandwiches…rush ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2016, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5811 "2016-05-10T16:08:51Z")
Yankee Doodle went to town A-riding on a pony He stuck a feather in his hat And called it macaroni ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5812 "2016-05-10T16:12:24Z")
Y! A! N! K! E! E! S! Here come the Yankees Let’s get behind and cheer the Yankees They’re gonna learn to fear the Yankees Everyone knows they play to win, cause They’re the New York Yankees ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5813 "2016-05-10T16:24:53Z")
We’re talkin’ baseball Kluszewski Campanella Talkin’ baseball The man and Bobby Fella The Scooter, the Barber, and the Newk They knew them all from Boston to Dubuque Especially Willie, Mickey, and the Duke. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5814 "2016-05-10T17:16:26Z")
We’re talkin’ softball From Maine to San Diego Talkin’ softball Mattingly and Canseco Ken Griffey’s grotesquely swollen jaw Steve Sax and his run-in with the law We’re talking Homer, Ozzie and the Straw ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5815 "2016-05-10T17:41:51Z")
A song played on a solo saxophone A crazy sound, a lonely sound A cry that tells us love goes on and on played on a solo saxophone It’s telling me to hold you tight and dance like it’s the last night of the world ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5816 "2016-05-10T20:21:28Z")
There ought to be a saxophone, playing softly in the night, A lonely, gentle melody to make me feel all right, But I left that all behind me, with the only one who might Have heard me play, She’s so far away. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5817 "2016-05-10T22:42:22Z")
I’ll learn to work the saxophone I play just what I feel Drink Scotch whiskey all night long And die behind the wheel They got a name for the winners in the world And I want a name when I lose They call Alabama the Crimson Tide Call me Deacon Blues ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5818 "2016-05-10T23:07:52Z")
Put on my blue suede shoes and I Boarded a plane Touched down in the land of the delta blues In the middle of the pourin’ rain ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5819 "2016-05-10T23:36:21Z")
Only love can make it rain The way the beach is kissed by the sea Only love can make it rain Like the sweat of lovers layin’ in the fields Love, reign o’er me Love, reign o’er me Rain on me, rain on 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:** [May 11, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5820 "2016-05-11T00:10:30Z")
So long I had searched for life’s meaning, Enslaved by the world and my greed, Then the door of the prison was opened by love, For the ransom was paid - I was free. I’m free from the fear of tomorrow, I’m free from the guilt of the past, For I’ve traded my shackles for a glorious song, I’m Free! Praise the Lord! Free at last! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=290) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=292)