# 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:** 389
**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:** [February 17, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7761 "2017-02-17T15:28:41Z")
Come to my door, baby, Face is clean and shining black as night. My mother went to answer you know That you looked so fine. Now I could understand your tears and your shame, She called you “boy” instead of your name. When she wouldn’t let you inside, When she turned and said “But honey, he’s not our kind.” ---
**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:** [February 17, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7762 "2017-02-17T21:08:34Z")
Oh how I wish For soothing rain All I wish is to dream again My loving heart Lost in the dark For hope I’d give my everything Oh how I wish For soothing rain Oh how I wish to dream again Once and for all And all for once Nemo my name forevermore ---
**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:** [February 17, 2017, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7763 "2017-02-17T23:48:56Z")
Captain Nemo said, “okay” (five, four, three, two, one) Then I raised my hand and waved Captain Nemo went away (Love me when I’m gone) Left 'em all alone, Nemo’s going 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:** [February 18, 2017, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7764 "2017-02-18T03:28:07Z")
Everybody, listen to me And return me my ship I’m your captain, I’m your captain Though I’m feeling mighty sick ---
**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:** [February 18, 2017, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7765 "2017-02-18T09:58:07Z")
Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the hardy Captain of the Pinafore! Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the Captain of the Pinafore! ---
**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:** [February 18, 2017, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7766 "2017-02-18T12:31:25Z")
I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies, I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes! Then I can hum a fugue of which I’ve heard the music’s din afore, And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2017, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7767 "2017-02-18T13:25:57Z")
I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical, I’m very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I’m teeming with a lot o’ news, (bothered for a rhyme) With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7768 "2017-02-18T14:41:49Z")
[which is game 0, since that’s from the same song I posted] There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium, And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium, And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium ---
**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:** [February 18, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7769 "2017-02-18T14:44:55Z")
One, two, three – add without subtraction Sound on sound – multiplied reaction H to O – no flow without the other Oh, but how do we make contact with one another? Electricity? Biology? Seems to me it’s Chemistry ---
**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:** [February 18, 2017, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7770 "2017-02-18T14:56:30Z")
When you’re in the dark and you want to see, You need uh… Electricity, Electricity Flip that switch and what do you get? You get uh… Electricity, Electricity Every room can now be lit With just uh… Electricity, Electricity ---
**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:** [February 18, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7771 "2017-02-18T15:00:14Z")
I am electric - feel my attraction. Feel my magnetism - you will agree I am electric - I have the contact. I am electric - the future is me. AC/DC it’s okay by me. I can switch and change my frequency. I am electric - mind how you touch me. I can shock you, set you on fire. I can reach up and pluck down the lightning. Watch the conductor, see the live wire. AC/DC it’s okay by me, it’s okay by me. I can switch and change my frequency. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2017, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7772 "2017-02-18T17:27:34Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > [which is game 0, since that’s from the same song I posted] > There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, > And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium, > And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium, > And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium Aiee! Ya got me! \ \ \ [all in good fun…the durned thing is like 7 stanzas long and chock full of verbiage and I had to go get dressed for work so I didn’t check the frelling thing too carefully…:smack: :o :D] Alone, at the end of the day As I stand before the ruins Of what used to be you and me You turn with the tears in your eyes Not understanding that you are free Free of me Like songs, our warmth fades away Turns into coldness Like the words that we say, today And as the city glows, electric people nobody knows Electric dreams, nobody shows When you touch my skin, the feeling is electric ---
**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:** [February 18, 2017, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7773 "2017-02-18T17:38:35Z")
I sing the body electric I celebrate the me yet to come I toast to my own reunion When I become one with the sun ---
**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:** [February 18, 2017, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7774 "2017-02-18T18:00:40Z")
Good morning starshine The earth says hello You twinkle above us We twinkle below Good morning starshine You lead us along My love and me as we sing Our early morning singing song Gliddy glub gloopy Nibby nabby noopy La la la lo lo Sabba sibby sabba Nooby abba nabba Le le lo lo Tooby ooby walla Nooby abba naba Early morning singing song ---
**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:** [February 18, 2017, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7775 "2017-02-18T18:08:41Z")
Ob la di ob la da life goes on bra La la how the life goes on Ob la di ob la da life goes on bra La la how the life goes on ---
**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:** [February 18, 2017, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7776 "2017-02-18T18:23:41Z")
That’s life (that’s life) that’s what people say You’re riding high in April Shot down in May But I know I’m gonna change that tune When I’m back on top, back on top in June ---
**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:** [February 18, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7777 "2017-02-18T21:12:05Z")
I don’t care if Monday’s blue Tuesday’s gray and Wednesday too Thursday I don’t care about you It’s Friday I’m in love Monday you can fall apart Tuesday Wednesday break my heart Thursday doesn’t even start It’s Friday I’m 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:** [February 19, 2017, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7778 "2017-02-19T09:19:27Z")
Monday, Monday So good to me Monday morning It was all I hoped it would be Oh, Monday morning Monday morning couldn’t guarantee That Monday evening you would still Be here with me “To this day, I have absolutely no idea what that song is about.” – John Phillips ---
**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:** [February 19, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7779 "2017-02-19T21:25:25Z")
Don’t want to know who’s to blame It won’t help knowing Don’t want to fight day and night Bad enough you’re going Don’t leave in silence with no word at all Don’t get drunk and slam the door That’s no way to end this I know how I want you to say goodbye Find a circus ring with a flying trapeze Tell me on a Sunday please ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7780 "2017-02-19T21:40:52Z")
I don’t want to be standin’ here And I don’t want to be talkin’ here And I don’t really care who’s to blame. 'Cause if love won’t fly on its own free will It’s gonna catch that outbound plane. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=388) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=390)