# 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:** 322
**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:** [July 26, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6421 "2016-07-26T17:59:52Z")
I feel how I faint as I’m crossing the Acheron Wash away my innocence Was I losing my way when the sky has been blackened? This short cut of evil Where do they drive me? Where will I go? Days gone by, time after time I’m going insane, losing my mind To the dark side of Paradise ---
**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:** [July 26, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6422 "2016-07-26T18:34:48Z")
Driven up and down in circles Skidding down a road of black ice Staring in and out storm windows Driven to a fool’s paradise ---
**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:** [July 26, 2016, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6423 "2016-07-26T22:13:00Z")
Though it’s cold and lonely in the deep dark night I can see paradise by the dashboard light Though it’s cold and lonely in the deep dark night Paradise by the dashboard light You got to do what you can And let Mother Nature do the rest Ain’t no doubt about it We were doubly blessed Cause we were barely seventeen And we were barely- ---
**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:** [July 27, 2016, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6424 "2016-07-27T01:18:41Z")
He was no more than a baby then Well he seemed broken hearted Something within him But the moment that I first laid Eyes on him all alone On the edge of seventeen Just like the white winged dove Sings a song Sounds like she’s singing Oh baby oh said oh ---
**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:** [July 27, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6425 "2016-07-27T01:53:37Z")
She said, I’m only seventeen (seventeen) But I’ll show you love like you’ve never seen She’s only seventeen Daddy says she’s too young, but she’s old enough for 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:** [July 27, 2016, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6426 "2016-07-27T11:29:04Z")
She said I know what it’s like to be dead I know what it is to be sad And she’s making me feel like I’ve never been born I said Who put all those things in your head Things that make me feel like I’m mad And you’re making me feel like I’ve never been born ---
**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:** [July 27, 2016, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6427 "2016-07-27T12:23:56Z")
What do you say to the dead? Will you forgive me for living? Can’t believe the things that they said Wonderful day for a killing It’s killing me ---
**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:** [July 27, 2016, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6428 "2016-07-27T13:35:11Z")
How do you tell someone you don’t love them? How do you tell someone you don’t care anymore? How do you tell someone you don’t love them anymore? ---
**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:** [July 27, 2016, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6429 "2016-07-27T15:54:39Z")
Oh the avenging angel, shiver in the way of her stare I will admit that she never loved me, but I admit that I didn’t care And it’s too damned late to bar the gate And why close it if your heart isn’t there And since you know it all, I could give you a call I could give you something fine to compare yourself to ---
**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:** [July 27, 2016, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6430 "2016-07-27T22:23:57Z")
Storms of damnation Caress the mourning sky Demon hordes from realms below Show the mighty force of Hell When angels forever die When Satan has arrived When Satan rules the world for eternity ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6431 "2016-07-28T11:56:35Z")
I used to rule the world Seas would rise when I gave the word Now in the morning I sleep alone Sweep the streets I used to own ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6432 "2016-07-28T12:06:18Z")
There’s a room where the light won’t find you Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down When they do, I’ll be right behind you So glad we’ve almost made it So sad they had to fade it Everybody wants to rule the world ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6433 "2016-07-28T13:27:32Z")
Her eyes like windows, trickling rain Upon the pain getting deeper. Though my love wants to relieve her. She walks alone from wall to wall. Lost in her hall, she can’t hear me. Though I know she likes to be near me. Lisa Lisa, sad Lisa Lisa. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6434 "2016-07-28T16:23:29Z")
You just gotta be strong and believe in yourselves Forget all the sadness 'cause love is all you need Just believe - just keep passing the open windows Just believe - just keep passing the open windows ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6435 "2016-07-28T17:11:35Z")
I wish for the day, and it will come That I know all the answers And I know what to be and I know what to search for And I know where to achieve And there it shall lie, my corpse in the gutter With knowledge and love and the taste of the better Looking through the window to space ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6436 "2016-07-28T17:40:10Z")
Day of the dead down in Mexico We read a book on the Alamo We filled the tank up with Texaco We buy a trinket for curio We walk big stuff through the marketplace Dripping sweat, dollars and aftershave I got the mind of an astronaut Emerging from the shell unscathed Climbing out of hell unchanged ---
**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:** [July 28, 2016, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6437 "2016-07-28T18:10:50Z")
Here it comes another song about Mexico I just can’t help myself I lost my old lady Got my lures Got my bobbers now I’m gonna go Got off in the wrong direction Found a hooker and lost my erection So I had to lie in the letter to the boys back 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:** [July 29, 2016, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6438 "2016-07-29T00:50:24Z")
I feel a hot wind on my shoulder I dial it in from south of the border I hear the talking of the D.J. Can’t understand, just what does he say? I’m on a Mexican radio I’m on a Mexican (whoa-oh) radio ---
**Author:** ![Jesta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Jesta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jesta)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6439 "2016-07-29T07:04:54Z")
All we hear is radio ga ga radio blah blah Radio what’s new? Radio, someone still loves you. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2016, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6440 "2016-07-29T13:40:00Z")
Begin the day With a friendly voice A companion, unobtrusive Plays that song that’s so elusive And the magic music makes your morning mood Off on your way Hit the open road There is magic at your fingers For the spirit ever lingers Undemanding contact In your happy solitude [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=321) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=323)