# 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:** 348
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2016, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6941 "2016-10-08T20:39:39Z")
I can wait another day until I call you You’ve only got my heart on a string and everything a-flutter But another lonely night might take forever We’ve only got each other to blame It’s all the same to me love 'Cause I know what I feel to be right No more lonely nights No more lonely nights You’re my guiding light Day or night I’m always there ---
**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:** [October 8, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6942 "2016-10-08T21:01:26Z")
You know the day destroys the night Night divides the day Tried to run, tried to hide Break on through to the other side Break on through to the other side Break on through to the other side, yeah ---
**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:** [October 9, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6943 "2016-10-09T12:53:09Z")
Don’t go breaking my heart I couldn’t if I tried Honey if I get restless Baby you’re not that kind Don’t go breaking my heart You take the weight off me Honey when you knock on my door I gave you my key ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6944 "2016-10-09T17:09:26Z")
If my friends should ask for me Here at home is where I’ll be There’s no one I care to see I’m breakin’ in a brand new broken heart. ---
**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:** [October 9, 2016, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6945 "2016-10-09T21:20:57Z")
I woke up and I had a big idea To buy a new soul at the start of every year I paid up and it cost me pretty dear Here’s a hymn to those that disappear ---
**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:** [October 9, 2016, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6946 "2016-10-09T22:52:36Z")
Processed, diluted Virtually unrecognizable I was lost there - No direction A scattered void No more, it’s over I’m on to you, your evil game The tables have turned I am taking back my soul ---
**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:** [October 10, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6947 "2016-10-10T00:58:24Z")
It’s hard to see how the tables have turned It’s hard to see how the people have learned It’s hard to watch the past drizzling past It’s hard to watch them picking the cast And it stacks up badly that it never makes sense You sense that sensation is who’s paying the rent And she beckons to you with her fingers and lies She says: “Can’t you slice the price of your paradise?” ---
**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:** [October 10, 2016, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6948 "2016-10-10T11:52:31Z")
Oh, almost paradise We’re knockin’ on heaven’s door Almost paradise How could we ask for more? I swear that I can see forever in your eyes Paradise ---
**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:** [October 10, 2016, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6949 "2016-10-10T14:11:45Z")
So I’ve cheated and I’ve lied Been the victim of foolish pride And I’ve begged and I’ve crawled And I’ve battled and bled for it all Now I’ll savor the downfall of Paradise ---
**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:** [October 10, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6950 "2016-10-10T16:11:42Z")
I float through day and night life, well most of the time Till I hung up my blues on a nail in your wall It rained flowers when the music began Love all around when the music is loud Every day, nirvana Always this way, yeah, yeah, yeah I wish that every day, nirvana Always this way ---
**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:** [October 10, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6951 "2016-10-10T19:01:31Z")
I keep your picture Upon the wall It hides a nasty stain that’s lying there So don’t you ask me To give it back I know you know it doesn’t mean that much to me I’m not in love, no no, it’s because ---
**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:** [October 11, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6952 "2016-10-11T02:21:25Z")
Can you hear it? The sound of Something burning Something changing On the merry-go-round Tonight The pictures on my wall Are about to swing and fall Love it all ---
**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:** [October 11, 2016, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6953 "2016-10-11T02:56:37Z")
Oh, the Merry-Go-Round broke down And it made the darndest sound, The lights went low, we both said “Oh!” And the Merry-Go-Round went "Um-pah-pah, um-pah-pah Um-pah! Um-pah! Um-pah-pah-pah!’ ---
**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:** [October 11, 2016, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6954 "2016-10-11T16:08:39Z")
Surfin’ bird Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb, aaah Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-ooma-mow-mow Papa-ooma-mow-mow ---
**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:** [October 11, 2016, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6955 "2016-10-11T20:31:58Z")
Some people call me the space cowboy Some call me the gangster of love Some people call me Maurice 'Cause I speak of the pompatus of love ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2016, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6956 "2016-10-11T22:15:20Z")
On my own, When I wander through this wonderland alone, Never knowing my right foot from my left My hat from my glove I’m too misty, and too much in love. I’m just too misty, And too much In love… ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6957 "2016-10-12T01:57:48Z")
When I want rain, I get sunny weather I’m just as blue as the sky Since love is gone, can’t pull myself together Guess I’ll hang my tears out to dry Friends ask me out, and I tell them I’m busy Must get a new alibi I stay at home, and ask myself “Where is she?” Guess I’ll hang my tears out to dry ---
**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:** [October 12, 2016, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6958 "2016-10-12T02:01:05Z")
Don’t know why there’s no sun up in the sky Stormy weather Since my man and I ain’t together Keeps rainin’ all the time Life is bare, gloom and mis’ry everywhere Stormy weather Just can’t get my poor self together I’m weary all the time, the time So weary all the time ---
**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:** [October 12, 2016, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6959 "2016-10-12T02:19:10Z")
If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s goin’ to break If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s goin’ to break When the levee breaks I’ll have no place to stay Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan It’s got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home Oh well, oh well, oh well ---
**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:** [October 12, 2016, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/6960 "2016-10-12T12:50:30Z")
Well, it’s water, water ev’rywhere And not a drop to drink So tell me now Oh, what else can a poor fellow do But sit right down and think [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=347) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=349)