# 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:** 400
**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:** [March 11, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7981 "2017-03-11T15:41:57Z")
Late at night, somewhat tight Guardian angels put to flight Freddie’s doused the neon light That promised while it shone Time to go, time to blow They don’t push me 'cause they know I am still in my long ago When Annie took me 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:** [March 11, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7982 "2017-03-11T16:42:41Z")
Everybody’s misused him; ripped him off and abused him. Another junkie playin’; pushin’ dope for the man. A terrible blow, but that’s how it go… Freddie’s on the corner now… if you wanna be a junkie, wow… Remember, Freddie’s dead… ---
**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:** [March 11, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7983 "2017-03-11T17:22:38Z")
Thirty-six hours Rolling in pain Praying to someone Free me again Oh I’ll be a good boy Please make me well I promise you anything Get me out of this hell Cold turkey has got me on the run Oh, oh, 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:** [March 11, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7984 "2017-03-11T17:24:24Z")
If you want to hang out, you’ve gotta take her out, cocaine If you want to get down, get down on the ground, cocaine ---
**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:** [March 11, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7985 "2017-03-11T17:32:47Z")
Driving that train, high on cocaine, Trouble ahead, trouble behind, And you know that notion just crossed my mind. Trouble with you is the trouble with me, Got two good eyes but you still don’t see. Come round the bend, you know it’s the end, The fireman screams and the engine just gleams ---
**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:** [March 11, 2017, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7986 "2017-03-11T17:44:02Z")
Have you ever met this funny reefer man, reefer man oh baby, baby, baby, reefer man, reefer man If he trades you dimes for nickles and calls watermelons pickles then you know your talkin’ to that reefer man ---
**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:** [March 11, 2017, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7987 "2017-03-11T17:50:17Z")
Who can take tomorrow Dip it in a deam Seperate the sorrow And collect up all the cream? The candyman The candyman can The candyman can cause he mixes it with love And makes the world taste good And the world tastes good Cause the candyman thinks it should ---
**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:** [March 11, 2017, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7988 "2017-03-11T17:51:12Z")
Timothy Leary’s dead. No, no, no, no, He’s outside looking in. Timothy Leary’s dead. No, no, no, no, He’s outside looking in. He’ll fly his astral plane, Takes you trips around the bay, Brings you back the same day, Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7989 "2017-03-11T18:24:34Z")
Mamma’s gonna worry I’ve been a bad, bad boy No use sayin’ sorry It’s something that I enjoy If you could be inside my head You’d see that black and white is read Flying high again Flying high again Flying high again Flying high again Come on and join 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:** [March 11, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7990 "2017-03-11T22:10:24Z")
I’ve been a bad, bad girl I’ve been careless with a delicate man ---
**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:** [March 11, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7991 "2017-03-11T23:00:18Z")
There’s a girl in Tennessee Who’s sorry she met up with me I can’t go back to Tennessee, I’m a bad, bad man! So I’ll go back to my tent, And someday when you’re old and bent, Think of those you might have spent With a bad, bad man! ---
**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:** [March 11, 2017, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7992 "2017-03-11T23:06:08Z")
Dang me, dang me They oughta take a rope and hang me High from the highest tree Woman, would you weep for me? ---
**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:** [March 11, 2017, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7993 "2017-03-11T23:09:03Z")
Hang down your head, Tom Dooley Hang down your head and cry Hang down your head, Tom Dooley Poor boy, you’re bound to die ---
**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:** [March 11, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7994 "2017-03-11T23:39:15Z")
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery None but ourselves can free our minds Have no fear for atomic energy 'Cause none of them can stop the time How long shall they kill our prophets While we stand aside and look? Ooh Some say it’s just a part of it We’ve got to fulfill the Book Won’t you help to sing These songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever have Redemption songs ---
**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:** [March 11, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7995 "2017-03-11T23:46:18Z")
You snakes, you viper’s brood You cannot escape being Devil’s food! I send you prophets, and I send you preachers Sages in rages and ages of teachers Nothing can mar your mood ---
**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:** [March 12, 2017, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7996 "2017-03-12T04:47:06Z")
A second flood, a simple famine, Plagues of locusts everywhere, Or a cataclysmic earthquake, I’d accept with some despair. But no, You sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair? ---
**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:** [March 12, 2017, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7997 "2017-03-12T05:04:47Z")
Do you hear the sirens? Do you see them burst? Do you feel the fire? All the world’s a radioactive grave! I can hear them crying I can see the fear I can see them dying Washed away by deadly gamma waves! Do you hear them calling? Do you see them hurt? Do you feel them falling? All the world’s a blazing funeral pyre! I can hear the wailing! I can see the wrath! I can see them failing Washed away by a scorching sea of fire! ---
**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:** [March 12, 2017, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7998 "2017-03-12T05:59:04Z")
Do you hear the people sing? Singing the songs of angry men? It is the music of the people Who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart Echoes the beating of the drums There is a life about to start When tomorrow comes! ---
**Author:** ![Jesta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Jesta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jesta)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/7999 "2017-03-12T07:45:11Z")
Every star was shining brightly Just like a million years before. And we were feeling very small Underneath the universe. And you know that I’m gonna be the one Who’ll be there when you need Someone to depend upon When tomorrow comes… ---
**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:** [March 12, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8000 "2017-03-12T14:08:32Z")
But I’ve been walking through the night, and the day Till my eyes get weary and my head turns grey And sometimes it seems maybe God’s gone away Forgetting his promise that we’ve heard him say And we’re lost out here in the stars. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=399) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=401)