# 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:** 390
**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 20, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7781 "2017-02-20T00:45:09Z")
I’m not talking ‘bout movin’ in And I don’t want to change your life But there’s a warm wind blowing the stars around And I’d really love to see you tonight I won’t ask for promises So you won’t have to lie We’ve both played this game before Say I love you Say goodbye ---
**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 20, 2017, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7782 "2017-02-20T01:10:10Z")
Please don’t ask no questions And I won’t tell you lies Diggin’ in the dirt, only gonna hurt It’s time you realized If you got somethin’ to say Go ahead an’ fire away No matter what card you play It’s you I’ve always needed ---
**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 20, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7783 "2017-02-20T13:32:36Z")
This time you’ve gone too far I told you, I told you, I told you, I told you Don’t talk back Just drive the car Shut your mouth I know what you are Don’t say nothing Keep your hands on the wheel Don’t turn around This is for real Digging in the dirt Stay with me, I need support I’m digging in the dirt To find the places I got hurt Open up the places I got hurt ---
**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 20, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7784 "2017-02-20T14:03:09Z")
Too Much Information No I was not aware Too Much Information What makes you think I care ---
**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 20, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7785 "2017-02-20T14:21:31Z")
What can I do to change her mind? Maybe she thinks that I’m just not her kind I think she wants me but she’s trying to play hard to get When she treats me this way, I wish we’d never met Information, that’s what I need Some information. Where did she come from? Information, that’s what I need Some information ---
**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 20, 2017, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7786 "2017-02-20T19:09:35Z")
This one goes out to the one I love This one goes out to the one I’ve left behind Another prop has occupied my time This one goes out to the one I love ---
**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 20, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7787 "2017-02-20T22:20:11Z")
I’m lonesome since I crossed the hill and o’er the moorland sedgy. Such heavy thoughts my heart do fill, since parting with my Betsey. I seek for one as fair and gay, but find none to remind me. How sweet the hours I passed away with the girl I left behind 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:** [February 20, 2017, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7788 "2017-02-20T23:10:56Z")
Did you ever hear of Sweet Betsy from Pike, Who crossed the wide prairies With her husband, Ike, With two yoke of cattle, And one spotted hog, A tall Shanghai rooster, And an old yeller dog? ---
**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 21, 2017, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7789 "2017-02-21T01:59:18Z")
Young Yeller is a puppy A little old lop-eared puppy It’s plain to see he’s got a family tree The image of his pappy He’s frisky and he’s happy And that’s how a good pup should be Frisky and happy Here Yeller Come back, Yeller Best doggone dog in the west In the west Here Yeller Come back, Yeller Best doggone dog in the west Best doggone dog in the west ---
**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 21, 2017, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7790 "2017-02-21T03:26:05Z")
He’s a humdinger a western swinger But he has a little trouble with his trigger finger When he takes aim it’s anybody’s guess He’s the shakiest gun in the West ---
**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 21, 2017, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7791 "2017-02-21T03:31:39Z")
Sometimes you’re better off dead There’s a gun in your hand it’s pointing at your head You think you’re mad too unstable Kicking in chairs and knocking down tables In a restaurant in a West End town Call the police there’s a mad man around Running down underground To a dive bar in a West End town In a West End town a dead end world The East End boys and West End girls In a West end town in a dead end world The East End boys and West End girls West End girls ---
**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 21, 2017, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7792 "2017-02-21T09:47:30Z")
West End Avenue. Delis and laundromats and gay bars, West End Avenue. Only a block away from Zabars. ---
**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 21, 2017, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7793 "2017-02-21T12:54:42Z")
Is it me? Is it you? How do you know when you’re on Dead End Avenue? You were destined to be mine Something always in the way But obstacles can be removed In the flash of a blade Is it me? Is it you? How do you know when you’re on Dead End Avenue? All this blood I spilled for you Why is there horror in your eyes? Is it me? Is it you? How do you know when you’re on Dead End Avenue? ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7794 "2017-02-21T15:14:29Z")
Dah-ling I love you but give me Park Avenue. ---
**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 21, 2017, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7795 "2017-02-21T15:32:38Z")
Then you go Downtown Where the folks are broke. You go Downtown Where your life’s a joke. You go Downtown When you buy your token, you go Home to Skid Row. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7796 "2017-02-21T16:27:04Z")
How can anything survive When these little minds tear you in two… What a town without pity can do ---
**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 21, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7797 "2017-02-21T16:30:02Z")
Pick a little, talk a little, pick a little, talk a little, Cheep cheep cheep, talk a lot, pick a little more ---
**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:** [February 21, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7798 "2017-02-21T16:31:07Z")
And after it rains there’s a rainbow And all of the colors are black. It’s not that the colors aren’t there It’s just imagination they lack. Everything’s the same back in my little town ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7799 "2017-02-21T16:32:03Z")
The beds are so small that your feet touch the wall The bedbugs so big that they swallow you whole The lice are so thick that they cover the floor I don’t feel at home on the Bowery no more. ---
**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 21, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7800 "2017-02-21T17:24:04Z")
The Bow’ry, the Bow’ry! They say such things, And they do strange things On the Bow’ry! The Bow’ry! I’ll never go there anymore! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=389) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=391)