# 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:** 377
**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, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7521 "2017-01-15T16:13:24Z")
And we have a new record. Zero. 😃 [You rock **PP** , don’t worry, someone had to finally repeat a song one day…] ---
**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, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7522 "2017-01-15T18:08:02Z")
Crimson and clover, over and over Crimson and clover, over and over Crimson and clover, over and over Crimson and clover, over and over Crimson and clover, over and over Crimson and clover, over and over ---
**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, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7523 "2017-01-15T20:21:43Z")
🙂 With you eternally mine In love there is no measure of time We planned it all at the start But you and I live in each other’s heart We may be oceans away You’ll feel my love I hear what you say No truth is ever a lie I stumble and fall But I give you it all I am a woman in love And I’d do anything To get you into my world And hold you within It’s a right I defend Over and over again What do I do ---
**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 15, 2017, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7524 "2017-01-15T21:53:43Z")
Women behind bars Women in fast cars Women in distress Women with no dress Women in aeroplanes Women who play games Women in uniform See that woman with her clothes torn Women who satisfy Women you can’t buy Like women in magazines And women in a limousine Women who sip champagne Women who feel no pain Women in a disco And women who don’t wanna know, know, know ---
**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 15, 2017, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7525 "2017-01-15T22:03:07Z")
Girls in ads Girls with big wigs Girls incognito Girls on display Who makes the sacrifice? Who pays the price? They live the cheap life Low budget still life What makes a real life? Who are the real girls? ---
**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 16, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7526 "2017-01-16T00:22:10Z")
O-o-o Kate, Kate and Cindy and Crystal and Candy Mercedes and Joan, Betty and Brenda Suzie and Anita and Phoebe and Jack Jackie-o These are the girls of the USA The principal girls of the USA Can you name, name, name, name them today? ---
**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:** [January 16, 2017, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7527 "2017-01-16T05:29:58Z")
Shirley! Shirley, Shirley Bo-ber-ley, bo-na-na fanna Fo-fer-ley. fee fi mo-mer-ley, Shirley! Lincoln! Lincoln, Lincoln. bo-bin-coln Bo-na-na fanna, fo-fin-coln Fee fi mo-min-coln, Lincoln! ---
**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 16, 2017, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7528 "2017-01-16T17:02:48Z")
Oh Abraham Lincoln, buried him in his grave. Oh Abraham Lincoln, buried him in his grave. The assassin, the coward, no grave for you. The assassin, the actor, no cross for you. ---
**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 17, 2017, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7529 "2017-01-17T07:29:52Z")
Now I am cold but a ghost lives in my veins Silent the terror that reigned, marbled in stone A shell of a man God preserved for a thousand ages But open the gates of my hell, I’ll strike from the grave!!! ---
**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 17, 2017, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7530 "2017-01-17T12:59:22Z")
You are the lugubrious spirit Etched in the oak of wonder You are the sullen voice and silent storm Each night I lay Awakened by her shivering silent voice From the shapes in the corridor walls. It pierces the solitude like that of a distant scream In the pitch-black forest of my delusion. . . With each passing day, a deeper grave. . . ---
**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 17, 2017, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7531 "2017-01-17T13:35:25Z")
But when that girl approaches me Well it all goes wrong These days leave me hopelessly lugubrious I wish these days were gone ---
**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 17, 2017, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7532 "2017-01-17T14:31:43Z")
So thank you for writing the best songs Thank you for righting a few wrongs You’re a savage gift on a wayward bus But you stepped down and you sang to us And get you down to the harbor now Most of the sour grapes are gone from the bough Ghosts of Johanna will visit you there And the winds of the old days will blow through your ---
**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 17, 2017, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7533 "2017-01-17T17:10:31Z")
Her name was Joanne, and she lived in a meadow by a pond. And she touch’d me for a moment, with a look that spoke to me of her sweet love. ---
**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 17, 2017, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7534 "2017-01-17T21:50:40Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > And the winds of the old days will blow through your Through my WHAT? I must know! :eek: For a moment we’re strangers For a minute you look away For a second or always For an instant another day Such strange things you say ---
**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 17, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7535 "2017-01-17T22:16:32Z")
HAIR…blow through your hair Time passages There’s something back here that you left behind ---
**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 17, 2017, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7536 "2017-01-17T22:59:32Z")
Though you’re someone in this world That I’ll always choose to love From now on You’re only someone that I used to love ---
**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 18, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7537 "2017-01-18T00:33:49Z")
When the truth is found to be lies And all the joy within you dies Don’t you want somebody to love? Don’t you need somebody to love? Wouldn’t you love somebody to love? You better find somebody to love ---
**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 18, 2017, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7538 "2017-01-18T21:36:58Z")
Oh sometimes I see her undressing for me, she’s the soft naked lady love meant her to be and she’s moving her body so brave and so free. If I’ve got to remember that’s a fine memory. And I know from her eyes and I know from her smile that tonight will be fine, will be fine, will be fine, will be fine for a while. ---
**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 18, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7539 "2017-01-18T23:08:20Z")
It’s a fine, fine day for a reunion It’s a fine, fine day for comin’ home You did your sittin’, you did hard time But you ain’t gonna sit no more, they can’t keep you there no more It’s a fine, fine day, oh yeah And nothin’s gonna take it, nothin’s gonna take it away It’s a fine, fine day, a fine 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 19, 2017, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7540 "2017-01-19T02:58:31Z")
One fine day, you’ll look at me And you will know our love was, meant to be One fine day, you’re gonna want me for your girl The arms I long for, will open wide And you’ll be proud to have me Walkin’ right by your side One fine day You’re gonna want me for your girl [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=376) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=378)