# 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:** 401
**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, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8001 "2017-03-12T14:59:40Z")
Something is dreadfully wrong for I feel A deep burning pain in my side. Though I am trying to stay in the saddle, I’m getting weary, unable to ride. ---
**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, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8002 "2017-03-12T16:13:20Z")
But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him 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 12, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8003 "2017-03-12T16:56:11Z")
They carried them to the flatlands And they died along the way But they built up with their bare hands What we still can’t do today. And I know she’s living there And she loves me to this day I still can’t remember when Or how I lost my way. He came dancing across the water Cortez, Cortez What a killer. ---
**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, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8004 "2017-03-12T17:17:39Z")
We’ll come again next Thursday afternoon The in-laws hope they’ll see you very soon But is it in your conscience that you’re after Another glimpse of the madman across the water ---
**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:** [March 12, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8005 "2017-03-12T17:48:14Z")
Would you dance with the madman Over the hills and far away Arm in arm Mad not mad ---
**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, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8006 "2017-03-12T18:07:59Z")
Crazy, I’m crazy for feeling so lonely I’m crazy, crazy for feeling so blue I knew you’d love me as long as you wanted And then someday you’d leave me for somebody new ---
**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, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8007 "2017-03-12T19:58:52Z")
There’s a young men that a know, his age is twenty one Comes from down in southern Colorado Just out of the service and he’s lookin’ for his fun Someday soon goin’ with him someday soon ---
**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 12, 2017, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8008 "2017-03-12T23:22:11Z")
One day-doubtless, cloudless, bright We’ll shake away the shadows of eternal night It’s just the storm before the calm Like the life held in your palm - it’s clay, one day And you stand there, with ashes blowing past Dipping into gilt-edged love that will be made at last And the gold you spend and the hastening end That you throw into the sea Coming back a hundredfold, there’s no guarantee ---
**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 13, 2017, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8009 "2017-03-13T02:57:35Z")
Drifting beyond all time Out of a churning sky Drawn to the beckoning light of the dark eternal night Trapped in a hellish dream Spinning past worlds unseen And frightfully vanishing into the dark eternal night ---
**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 13, 2017, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8010 "2017-03-13T13:05:39Z")
Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces Little darling, it seems like years since it’s been here Here comes the sun Here comes the sun, and I say It’s all right ---
**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 13, 2017, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8011 "2017-03-13T21:44:13Z")
Here comes Peter Cottontail, Hoppin’ down the bunny trail, Hippity, hoppity, Easter’s on its way. ---
**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 13, 2017, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8012 "2017-03-13T21:48:05Z")
The bells of Easter sweetly peal: “Christ is risen! Christ is risen!” They chime the hope He doth reveal, This joyful Easter 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:** [March 14, 2017, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8013 "2017-03-14T01:04:12Z")
Learning the purifying flame Regeneration after the growing pain Longing for the words to flow Longing for the world to know Waiting to see you Waiting to hear you Waiting for vision To see your, your Revelation ---
**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 14, 2017, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8014 "2017-03-14T01:07:14Z")
Who’s that writin’? John the Revelator Who’s that writin’? John the Revelator Who’s that writin’? John the Revelator Wrote the book of the seven seals ---
**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 14, 2017, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8015 "2017-03-14T01:50:07Z")
And the Third Angel sounded And a star fell from heaven Burning as it were a lamp And it fell upon the third part of the waters… **ASTEROID!!!** ---
**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 14, 2017, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8016 "2017-03-14T01:52:59Z")
All the burning bridges that have fallen after me All the lonely feelings and the burning memories Everyone I left behind each time I closed the door Burning bridges lost forevermore ---
**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 14, 2017, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8017 "2017-03-14T11:56:45Z")
All my life, I never learned My bridge is raised, yay-yay, my bridges burn And all my dreams seem faded away, yeah My bridge is raised, yay, well, my bridges burn ---
**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 14, 2017, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8018 "2017-03-14T12:59:31Z")
Lessons learned are like Bridges burned You only need to cross them but once ---
**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 15, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8019 "2017-03-15T15:20:25Z")
A lifestyle with no simplicities But I’m not asking for your sympathy Talk, we never could talk, distanced by all that was between us A lord of the backstage, a creature of language I’m so far out and I’m too far in I just wanted you to be the first one I just wanted you to be the first one Bridges are burning, burning Bridges are burning, burning ---
**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 15, 2017, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8020 "2017-03-15T17:17:13Z")
Don’t waste time feeling bad for me I didn’t ask you for your sympathy No I know God is watching over me So I guess this is where I’m suppose to be [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=400) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=402)