# 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:** 323
**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 29, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6441 "2016-07-29T18:56:05Z")
Hey baby it’s a quarter to eight I feel I’m in the mood Hey baby the hour is late I feel I’ve got to move ---
**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 29, 2016, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6442 "2016-07-29T22:22:48Z")
Let me taste your life Let me fill your stream Let me make you feel it right now just lay back and dream Got this thing on the move it’s beginin’ Got a strange kind of feeling under my skin ---
**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, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6443 "2016-07-29T22:50:01Z")
Don’t you know little fool, you never can win Use your mentality, wake up to reality But each time that I do, just the thought of you Makes me stop before I begin 'Cause I’ve got you under my skin ---
**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 30, 2016, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6444 "2016-07-30T01:16:30Z")
And as the city glows, electric people nobody knows Electric dreams, nobody shows When you touch my skin, the feeling is electric ---
**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 30, 2016, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6445 "2016-07-30T11:42:33Z")
Danger! Danger! High Voltage! When we touch, When we kiss ---
**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 30, 2016, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6446 "2016-07-30T15:03:14Z")
A kiss is a terrible thing to waste A kiss is a terrible thing to waste It’s something that has always been so A kiss is a terrible thing to waste A kiss is a terrible thing to waste ---
**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 30, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6447 "2016-07-30T17:51:33Z")
It’s the way you love me It’s a feeling like this It’s centrifugal motion It’s perpetual bliss It’s that pivotal moment It’s, ah, unthinkable This kiss, this kiss (unstoppable) This kiss, this kiss ---
**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 30, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6448 "2016-07-30T21:33:47Z")
Falling down the mountain End up kissing dirt Look a little closer Sometimes it wouldn’t hurt ---
**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 30, 2016, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6449 "2016-07-30T22:45:49Z")
Let him sit beside you Eat right off your plate You don’t have to be afraid There’s nothing here to hate Ah, princess you might like it If you lower your defence Kiss that frog, and you will Get your prince ---
**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 31, 2016, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6450 "2016-07-31T03:47:42Z")
There’s no bread? Let em eat cake There’s no end to what they’ll take Pluck the fruits of noble birth Wash the salt into the earth ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2016, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6451 "2016-07-31T08:21:27Z")
You filled your stomach with chop suey And also crepe suzettes and steak And when they told your wife Marie That nobody had bread, she said “Let 'em eat cake” We’re gonna take you and the Queen Down to the guillotine, It’s somewhere in the heart of town And when that fella’s through With what he’s gonna do, You’ll have no place to hang your crown You came the wrong way Old King Louie ---
**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 31, 2016, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6452 "2016-07-31T15:05:42Z")
Here you go create another fable (You wanted to) Grab a brush and put a little makeup (You wanted to) Hide the scars to fade away the shake-up (You wanted to) Why’d you leave the keys upon the table? (You wanted to) I don’t think you trust In my self-righteous suicide I cry when angels deserve to die ---
**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 31, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6453 "2016-07-31T16:24:02Z")
Needed elsewhere To remind us of the shortness of our time Tears laid for them Tears of love, tears of fear Bury my dreams, dig up my sorrows Oh, Lord why The angels fall first ---
**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 31, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6454 "2016-07-31T23:43:52Z")
All my life I’ve been workin’ them angels overtime Riding and driving and living So close to the edge Workin’ them angels - Overtime ---
**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:** [August 1, 2016, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6455 "2016-08-01T11:32:19Z")
Down at the end, round by the corner Close to the edge, just by a river Seasons will pass you by I get up, I get down Now that it’s all over and done Now that you find, now that you’re whole ---
**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:** [August 1, 2016, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6456 "2016-08-01T12:40:30Z")
I get up, and nothing gets me down You got it tough, I’ve seen the toughest all around And I know, baby, just how you feel You’ve got to roll with the punches to get to what’s real Oh can’t you see me standing here I’ve got my back against the record machine I ain’t the worst that you’ve seen Oh can’t you see what I mean? ---
**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:** [August 1, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6457 "2016-08-01T13:23:24Z")
Oh, say can you see, By the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed, At the twilight’s last gleaming? ---
**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:** [August 1, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6458 "2016-08-01T13:29:18Z")
Pretty as a midsummer’s morn They call her Dawn Dawn, go away, I’m no good for you Oh, Dawn, stay with him, he’ll be good to you Hang on (Hang on) Hang on to him Think (think) what a big man he’ll be Think (think) of the places you’ll see Now think what the future would be with a poor boy like me Me ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6459 "2016-08-01T15:32:05Z")
My love is alien I picked her up by chance She speaks to me with ultra high frequencies Radio band of gold Gonna listen til I grow old. Oooo Oooo Oooo What more can a poor boy do? What more can a poor boy do? ---
**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:** [August 1, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6460 "2016-08-01T15:42:15Z")
Now that you’re gone, All that’s left is a band of gold All that’s left of the dreams I hold Is a band of gold And the memories of what love could be If you were still here with me [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=322) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=324)