# 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:** 376
**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:** [January 13, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7501 "2017-01-13T13:40:47Z")
In the middle of the night I go walking in my sleep Through the jungle of doubt To a river so deep I know I’m searching for something Something so undefined That it can only be seen By the eyes of the blind In the middle of the night ---
**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:** [January 13, 2017, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7502 "2017-01-13T13:59:27Z")
But in the middle of the night, He steals through your garden, Gives your hosiery a fright, And doesn’t say pardon. As soft as a breeze, With an arm full of underwear, On his hands and knees, Dreams about the knicker scare. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2017, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7503 "2017-01-13T14:24:53Z")
Look out, look out, look out for Jimmy Valentine For he’s a pal of mine A sentimental crook with a touch that lingers In his sandpapered fingers He can find the combination of your pocketbook ---
**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:** [January 13, 2017, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7504 "2017-01-13T14:29:17Z")
Is your figure less than Greek Is your mouth a little weak When you open it to Speak Are you smart? But don’t change a hair for me Not if you care for me Stay little valentine stay Each day is valentines day. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2017, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7505 "2017-01-13T18:05:58Z")
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle Hobbes was fond of his dram And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart “I drink, therefore I am” Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed A lovely little thinker But a bugger when he’s pissed ---
**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:** [January 13, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7506 "2017-01-13T18:30:00Z")
There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex You may have heard about his odd complex His name appears in Freud’s Index 'cause he Loved his mother! ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7507 "2017-01-13T22:13:09Z")
Kids are different today I hear every mother say Mother needs something today ---
**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:** [January 14, 2017, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7508 "2017-01-14T00:14:24Z")
Swallow it down (what a jagged little pill) It feels so good (swimming in your stomach) Wait until the dust settles ---
**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:** [January 14, 2017, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7509 "2017-01-14T01:06:34Z")
And the joke has crossed the line And the final word is mine And the mist has touched the wood And the words are understood And the sand has drifted high And the blind man gave a cry And the swallows dance above the sun And the swallows dance above the sun Yeah ---
**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:** [January 14, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7510 "2017-01-14T02:41:07Z")
I understand you’ve been running from the man Who goes by the name of the Sandman. He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye Of a hurricane that’s abandoned. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2017, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7511 "2017-01-14T05:46:29Z")
Hush little baby, don’t say a word And never mind that noise you heard It’s just the beasts under your bed In your closet, in your head Exit light, enter night Grain of sand Exit light, enter night Take my hand We’re off to never never land ---
**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:** [January 14, 2017, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7512 "2017-01-14T13:22:58Z")
I’ve been thinking about you I hope that you’ve been thinking about me I’ve been talking about you I’ve been talking about you in my sleep And when I dream, I dream about you And when I scream, I scream about you I go ba ba ba ba oh oh ---
**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:** [January 14, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7513 "2017-01-14T15:17:55Z")
Bom ba ba bom ba bom ba bom bom ba ba bom ba ba bom ba ba dang a dang dang Ba ba ding a dong ding Blue moon moon blue moon dip di dip di dip ---
**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:** [January 14, 2017, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7514 "2017-01-14T15:36:18Z")
Memory, all alone in the moonlight I can dream of the old days Life was beautiful then I remember the time I knew what happiness was Let the memory live again Every street lamp seems to beat A fatalistic warning Someone mutters and the street lamp sputters And soon it will be morning ---
**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:** [January 14, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7515 "2017-01-14T18:13:29Z")
Under blue moon I saw you So soon you’ll take me Up in your arms Too late to beg you or cancel it Though I know it must be the killing time Unwillingly mine Fate Up against your will Through the thick and thin He will wait until You give yourself to him ---
**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:** [January 14, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7516 "2017-01-14T18:21:18Z")
People tell me it’s a crime To feel too much at any one time. All it cost me was a dime, but the bells refuse to ring. He was born in spring, but I was born too late Blame it on a simple twist of fate ---
**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:** [January 14, 2017, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7517 "2017-01-14T20:15:30Z")
Ten cents a dance, pansies and rough guys, tough guys who tear my gown. Seven to midnight I hear drums, loudly the saxophone blows, Trumpets are tearing my ear-drums, customers crush my toes. Sometimes I think, I’ve found my hero But it’s a queer romance ---
**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:** [January 14, 2017, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7518 "2017-01-14T23:51:28Z")
666 is no longer alone He’s getting out the marrow in your back bone And the seven trumpets blowing sweet rock and roll Gonna blow right down inside your soul Pythagoras with the looking glass reflects the full moon In blood, he’s writing the lyrics of a brand new tune ---
**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:** [January 15, 2017, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7519 "2017-01-15T00:02:54Z")
The night was black, was no use holding back 'Cause I just had to see, was someone watching me In the mist dark figures move and twist Was all this for real, or just some kind of hell? 666 the number of the beast Hell and fire was spawned to be released ---
**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:** [January 15, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7520 "2017-01-15T03:58:34Z")
Torches blazed and sacred chants were praised As they start to cry hands held to the sky In the night the fires burning bright The ritual has begun Satan’s work is done 666 the number of the Beast Sacrifice is going on tonight [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=375) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=377)