# 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:** 363
**Author:** ![Jesta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Jesta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jesta)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7241 "2016-11-24T08:25:15Z")
Mother, mother There’s too many of you crying Brother, brother, brother There’s far too many of you dying You know we’ve got to find a way To bring some lovin’ here today, ye ---
**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:** [November 24, 2016, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7242 "2016-11-24T18:24:20Z")
Let me sleep for awhile and dream of Avalon and the Beltane fires And a silent kiss steals away into the mist and out to the lake Where the sword will rise again from the water into the Hands of the chosen one the righteous one Forever and again Give me, give me, give me, deliverance Brother, sister, give me, give me Deliverance, deliver 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:** [November 24, 2016, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7243 "2016-11-24T18:49:07Z")
All over now, forgotten why I needed this Standing down, disappear into the obscure Resting days, waiting for new disease Biding time, locked inside insanity The devil guides the way Tells me what to say Pours himself inside And snuffs the final light Deliverance - Thrown back at me Deliverance - Laughing at me ---
**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:** [November 26, 2016, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7244 "2016-11-26T12:43:15Z")
Hey lord, you delivered Daniel from the bottom of the lion’s den You delivered Jonah from the belly of the whale and then The Hebrew children from the fiery furnace So the good books do declare Hey lord, if you can’t help me, For goodness sake don’t help that bear! ---
**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:** [November 26, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7245 "2016-11-26T13:23:51Z")
Pray now for how long Pray for me, who could you love We’re falling from ecstasy And you deserve us Leviathan Pray for me Let us gather hallucinations from our private minds Let us witness the reincarnation of the Sun Leviathan May the mountains shake you to the core ---
**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:** [November 26, 2016, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7246 "2016-11-26T14:32:11Z")
Picture yourself in a boat on a river With tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly, A girl with kaleidoscope eyes. Cellophane flowers of yellow and green Towering over your head. Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes And she’s gone. Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds, ah, ah ---
**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:** [November 26, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7247 "2016-11-26T19:09:19Z")
There’s a girl in my room and her face on the wall with no eyes. There’s a girl in my room and her face on the wall with no eyes. Girl with no eyes, who can she be? The girl with no eyes, she’s looking at me. There’s a girl in my room and her face on the wall with no eyes. If I make a sound she’ll know that I’m stirring inside. If I make a sound she’ll know that I’m trying to hide. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7248 "2016-11-26T19:15:44Z")
[That It’s a Beautiful Day song there randomly played on my computer stereo 2 minutes after I pasted its lyrics in-662 cuts for those keeping score at home…] ---
**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:** [November 26, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7249 "2016-11-26T19:59:18Z")
Eyes without a face Eyes without a face Eyes without a face Got no human grace your eyes without a face. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2016, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7250 "2016-11-26T21:13:07Z")
I’m tellin’ you people, tell you no lie My heart was breakin’, I’ll tell you why Back and forth, the lies unfurl In the eyes, in the eyes, in the eyes, in the eyes of the world Eyes…eyes…eyes…eyes… Eyes…eyes…eyes…eyes… ---
**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:** [November 27, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7251 "2016-11-27T01:25:24Z")
And I’m lying here listening And the raindrops are all glistening In my dreams And it seems That the sun never comes And I want my sad reflection To go drifting through the skies To be in your eyes ---
**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:** [November 27, 2016, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7252 "2016-11-27T10:45:54Z")
In Buddy’s eyes I’m young, I’m beautiful. In Buddy’s eyes I don’t get older. So life is ducky And time goes flying And I’m so lucky I feel like crying… ---
**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:** [November 27, 2016, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7253 "2016-11-27T16:05:06Z")
Grow old along with me The best is yet to be When our time has come We will be as one God bless our love God bless our love ---
**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:** [November 27, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7254 "2016-11-27T20:20:07Z")
Rich relations give crusts of bread and such You can help yourself, but don’t take too much Mama may have, Papa may have But God bless the child that’s got his own, that’s got his 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:** [November 27, 2016, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7255 "2016-11-27T21:05:31Z")
There’s a king on a throne with his eyes torn out There’s a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt There’s a rich man sleeping on a golden bed There’s a skeleton choking on a crust of bread King of Pain ---
**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:** [November 28, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7256 "2016-11-28T00:49:58Z")
I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king I’ve been up and down and over and out and I know one thing ---
**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:** [November 28, 2016, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7257 "2016-11-28T14:46:34Z")
He’s a poet, he’s a picker, he’s a prophet, he’s a pusher He’s a pilgrim and a preacher, and a problem when he’s stoned He’s a walking contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction Taking every wrong direction on his lonely way back home And there’s a lot of wrong directions on that lonley way back home ---
**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:** [November 28, 2016, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7258 "2016-11-28T15:54:23Z")
You’ll seek it, it’ll take a while You’ll seek it, if it’s a thousand miles Take what fate brings, eternal and desire I’ll change those faces, then I take their smile We’re getting close now, I can see the door Closer and closer, or is it there at all Forever remain This could be my last regress, last exit for the lost ---
**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:** [November 28, 2016, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7259 "2016-11-28T17:12:59Z")
Get up and go Get up and go Get up and go 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:** [November 28, 2016, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7260 "2016-11-28T18:49:36Z")
Get back, get back Get back to where you once belonged Get back, get back Get back to where you once belonged Get back Jojo, go home [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=362) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=364)