# 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:** 306
**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:** [June 17, 2016, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6101 "2016-06-17T10:51:50Z")
And you know that she’s half crazy but that’s why you want to be there And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China ---
**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:** [June 17, 2016, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6102 "2016-06-17T12:30:02Z")
I stood at the top of the mountain And China sang to me In the peaceful haze of harvest time A song of eternity ---
**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:** [June 17, 2016, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6103 "2016-06-17T13:21:43Z")
When you climb to the top of the mountain Look out over the sea Think about the places perhaps, where a young man could be Then you jump back down to the rooftops Look out over the town Think about all of the strange things circulating round ---
**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:** [June 17, 2016, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6104 "2016-06-17T14:17:03Z")
Why try? I know why This feeling inside me says it’s time I was gone Clear head. Life ahead It’s time I was king now and not just one more pawn ---
**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:** [June 17, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6105 "2016-06-17T14:19:03Z")
It’s good to be king, if just for a while To be there in velvet, yeah, to give 'em a smile It’s good to get high, and never come down It’s good to be king of your own little town ---
**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:** [June 17, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6106 "2016-06-17T14:54:37Z")
I’m a fast movin’ baby I can show you around I got so much cocaine ain’t never comin’ down Snortin’ whiskey and drinkin’ cocaine Got this feelin’ I’m gonna drive that girl insane, insanity ---
**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:** [June 17, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6107 "2016-06-17T19:38:28Z")
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:** [June 17, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6108 "2016-06-17T20:05:51Z")
The shrieking of nothing is killing me Just pictures of Jap girls in synthesis And I ain’t got no money and I ain’t got no hair But I’m hoping to kick but the planet is glowing Ashes to ashes, funk to funky We know Major Tom’s a junkie Strung out in heaven’s high Hitting an all-time low ---
**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:** [June 17, 2016, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6109 "2016-06-17T22:21:56Z")
Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin’ for a train And I’s feelin’ near as faded as my jeans Bobby thumbed a diesel down, just before it rained It rode us all the way to New Orleans ---
**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:** [June 17, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6110 "2016-06-17T22:33:35Z")
Take me back to New Orleans And drop me at my door Cause I might love you yes But I love me more ---
**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:** [June 18, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6111 "2016-06-18T00:09:17Z")
Down in Louisiana Where the alligators grow so mean There lived a girl that I swear to the world Made the alligators look tame Polk salad Annie polk salad Annie Everybody said it was a shame Cause her mama was working on the chain-gang (a mean, vicious woman) ---
**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:** [June 18, 2016, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6112 "2016-06-18T15:11:18Z")
She lived in these parts, she was a big old girl Miss Annie, what a wonder Three hundred pounds and six foot eight, in her bare feet Annie Christmas She could drink and she could fight, she had a curly black moustache She was famous, on the river She was madly in love with a wild gambling man That was Charlie and she loved him But old Charlie never even noticed her at all Until one day, what a one day When she wore a very special necklace Just to prove that she was tough and reckless With a bead for every ear and nose She had bitten off, as the story goes When she bit every man who ever did her wrong And the necklace was already thirty feet long And the upshot was, and the upshot was Old Charlie was impressed and the next thing you know They were married, what a wedding And the next year she gave him a dozen sons at once They were giants! ---
**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:** [June 18, 2016, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6113 "2016-06-18T17:21:58Z")
Your butt is wide, well mine is too Just watch your mouth or I’ll sit on you The word is out, better treat me right 'Cause I’m the king of cellulite Ham on, ham on, ham on whole wheat, all right Because I’m fat, I’m fat, come on (Fat, fat, really really fat) You know I’m fat, I’m fat, you know it (Fat, fat, really really fat) You know I’m fat, I’m fat, come on you know (Fat, fat, really really fat) Don’t you call me pudgy, portly or stout Just now tell me once again who’s fat ---
**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:** [June 18, 2016, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6114 "2016-06-18T18:18:01Z")
Don’t want to be a fat man, have not the patience to ignore all that. Hate to admit to myself half of my problems came from being fat. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6115 "2016-06-18T18:54:48Z")
[^^^ nice username/post combo!] Big bottom, big bottom Talk about bum cakes, my girl’s got 'em Big bottom, drive me out of my mind How could I leave this behind? ---
**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:** [June 18, 2016, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6116 "2016-06-18T19:17:44Z")
I got the blues so bad one time It put my face in a permanent frown You know I’m feelin’ so much better I could cake walk into town I want to go on a picnic in the country, mama And stay all day I don’t care but don’t do nothing Just while my time away ---
**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:** [June 18, 2016, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6117 "2016-06-18T21:13:27Z")
Save me, save me, save me from this squeeze. I got a big fat mama trying to break me. And I love to live so pleasantly, Live this life of luxury, Lazing on a sunny afternoon. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2016, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6118 "2016-06-19T13:22:43Z")
Lazy, just stay in bed You’re lazy, just stay in bed You don’t want no money, you don’t want no bread ---
**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:** [June 19, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6119 "2016-06-19T15:14:22Z")
All is well The distant horizon It’s there in wait Get so close You’re so much wiser But wake up late On the way to paradise Ornamental Or warm and gentle On the way to paradise Ornamental Or warm and gentle On the way to paradise As you will some day ---
**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:** [June 19, 2016, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6120 "2016-06-19T16:41:48Z")
You left me here on your way to paradise You pulled the rug right out from under my life I know where you goin’ to I knew when you came home last night 'Cause your eyes had a mist from the smoke of a distant fire [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=305) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=307)