# 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:** 297
**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 25, 2016, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5921 "2016-05-25T18:14:33Z")
Early morning Manhattan Ocean winds blow on the land The Movie Palace is now undone The all-night watchmen have had their fun Sleeping cheaply on the midnight show It’s the same old ending, time to go: Get out! It seems they cannot leave their dream There’s something moving in the sidewalk steam And the lamb lies down on Broadway ---
**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 26, 2016, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5922 "2016-05-26T11:35:58Z")
They say that I won’t last too long on Broadway I’ll catch a Greyhound bus for home, they all say But they’re dead wrong, I know they are 'Cause I can play this here guitar And I won’t quit till I’m a star on Broadway ---
**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 26, 2016, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5923 "2016-05-26T13:39:48Z")
Running wild down St. Marks, Raw and breathless in your arms. Jumping trains to the park, When the world was ours. When you and I were fighting sleep. Under the blankets promises we promised to keep, At least 'til we said goodbye. Sometimes you’re still mine Between the lines of the Sunday New York times ---
**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 26, 2016, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5924 "2016-05-26T15:54:25Z")
We shared the world like a private joke Laughed our way out of hues and cries Inhaled under the Bridge of Sighs It’s not the way it was The weather came you were skating on fire And love spilled out like antifreeze The ice floes melted in separate seas If I was slow to learn I will wait for another turn ---
**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 26, 2016, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5925 "2016-05-26T16:23:53Z")
Merry-go-round Wish I had found Somebody to care for Where am I bound? Life is so lonely If life is just only To love with my loving Goes 'round and 'round ---
**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 26, 2016, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5926 "2016-05-26T17:53:40Z")
Jump right in, take the call Were you pushed or did you fall? Fell apart, feeling low Happy ride, the merry-go And I always hear them singing And complaining about the world But my chiming bells are ringing out The word the word the word ---
**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 26, 2016, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5927 "2016-05-26T22:07:00Z")
A well a bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word A well a bird, bird, b-bird’s the word A well a don’t you know about the bird? Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word! ---
**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 26, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5928 "2016-05-26T23:02:19Z")
Walking around I get tired The same sensations all the time I want something no one sells I’d rather be somewhere else Up,up,up where the birds fly Up,up,up where they go Up,up,up like a bird Up,up,up like a bird ---
**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 27, 2016, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5929 "2016-05-27T12:13:14Z")
So kiss me and smile for me, Call my folks in Tripoli, Tell them that Khadafi made me go. I’m a Libyan on a jet plane, I don’t know if I’ll be back again. Muammar, I hate to go. ---
**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 27, 2016, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5930 "2016-05-27T14:45:06Z")
Fuel injected suicide machine Animal instinct, killing disease Hell on Earth I inflict The world is burning The sky is falling Ayatollah of Rock’n’rolla Ayatollah of Rock’n’rolla ---
**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 27, 2016, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5931 "2016-05-27T14:52:12Z")
But it’s okay 'cause Jennie’s the hostess, And it’s okay 'cause she’s the mostest. ---
**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 27, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5932 "2016-05-27T15:17:14Z")
And I take it off to my closet Where nobody else can see I open that door so slowly Take a peek up north and south Then I pull out a Hostess Twinkie And I pop it in my mouth Yeah, in the daytime I’m Mr Natural Just as healthy as I can be But at night I’m a junk food junkie Good lord have pity on 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 27, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5933 "2016-05-27T19:59:52Z")
What in the world ever became of sweet Jane? She lost her sparkle, you know she isn’t the same Livin’ on reds, vitamin C, and cocaine All a friend can say is “Ain’t it a shame?” ---
**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 27, 2016, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5934 "2016-05-27T23:35:24Z")
But you were the one with the magic You were the one with the sparkle And you had it all I know it’s never gonna be the way it was How can it? Feelings change and people can get lost But I still think of you so much Do you remember how it was? Never ever, ever gonna be the same Never gonna be the same ---
**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 28, 2016, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5935 "2016-05-28T11:51:55Z")
Feelings, nothing more than feelings Trying to forget my feelings of love Teardrops rolling down on my face Trying to forget my feelings of love ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2016, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5936 "2016-05-28T14:10:46Z")
When we lift the covers from our feelings We expose our insecure spots Trust is just as rare as devotion Forgive us our cynical thoughts ---
**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 28, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5937 "2016-05-28T15:20:50Z")
Make a promise, take a vow And trust your feelings, it’s easy now Understand the voice within And feel the changes already beginning Oh, oh, won’t you tell me again Oh, oh, can you feel it? Oh, oh, won’t you tell me again tonight ---
**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 28, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5938 "2016-05-28T15:23:56Z")
Tonight, tonight, It all began tonight, I saw you and the world went away. Tonight, tonight, There’s only you tonight, What you are, what you do, what you say. Today, all day I had the feeling A miracle would happen – I know now I was right. For here you are And what was just a world is a star Tonight! ---
**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 28, 2016, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5939 "2016-05-28T18:01:43Z")
Well I remember, I remember don’t worry How could I ever forget, It’s the first time, the last time we ever met But I know the reason why you keep your silence up, No you don’t fool me The hurt doesn’t show But the pain still grows It’s no stranger to you and me And I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord Well, I’ve been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2016, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/5940 "2016-05-28T19:29:11Z")
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