# 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:** 440
**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:** [July 10, 2017, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8781 "2017-07-10T14:31:39Z")
Come with me And you’ll be In a world of pure imagination Take a look And you’ll see Into your imagination ---
**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:** [July 10, 2017, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8782 "2017-07-10T18:06:21Z")
Let us be together Let’s pretend that we are free Let’s all be where the angels find us We all have the key Shall we seal the truth of life Shall we light the heavens We’re so good at finding pleasure As to what we are and how we fit together ---
**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:** [July 10, 2017, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8783 "2017-07-10T19:09:19Z")
Come along with me Down into the world of seeing Come and you’ll be free Take the time to find the feeling See everything on it’s own And you’ll find you know the way And you’ll know the things you’re shown Owe everything to the day ---
**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:** [July 11, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8784 "2017-07-11T14:22:34Z")
And even as I wander I’m keeping you in sight You’re a candle in the window On a cold, dark winter’s night And I’m getting closer than I ever thought I might And I can’t fight this feeling anymore I’ve forgotten what I started fighting for It’s time to bring this ship into the shore And throw away the oars, forever ---
**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:** [July 11, 2017, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8785 "2017-07-11T20:09:17Z")
I took myself a blue canoe And I floated like a leaf Dazzling, dancing Half enchanted In my Merlin sleep Crazy was the feeling Restless were my eyes Insane they took the paddles My arms they paralysed ---
**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:** [July 11, 2017, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8786 "2017-07-11T20:12:42Z")
Picture yourself in a boat on a river ---
**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:** [July 11, 2017, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8787 "2017-07-11T20:49:48Z")
Cruising down the river, On a Sunday afternoon With one you love, the sun above Waiting for the moon. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2017, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8788 "2017-07-12T00:12:08Z")
I recall the tune that I sang to the moon and it seemed to make it smile And I rode away at the close of day and I stayed so long awhile But I long to be where the memory is ringing One more ride ---
**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:** [July 12, 2017, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8789 "2017-07-12T00:14:26Z")
Once upon a night we’ll wake to the carnival of life The beauty of this ride ahead such an incredible high It’s hard to light a candle, easy to curse the dark instead This moment the dawn of humanity The last ride of the 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:** [July 12, 2017, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8790 "2017-07-12T01:38:06Z")
Take this daring leap Wake, you’ve been asleep Go attack your life The paint is peeling Scrape to save what’s yours ---
**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:** [July 12, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8791 "2017-07-12T13:47:19Z")
Now when the paint was dry And the die was cast, It was clear at last It was all a lie. Red never left his hand, And the blue was wrong With the green too strong, Never what he planned. Now in a rumpled bed With a night to kill, He’ll be painting still, If he isn’t dead. Now he can only stare As the old dream falls At the mocking walls, And the walls are bare. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8792 "2017-07-12T14:23:18Z")
The grand old painter died last night His paintings on the wall Before he went he bade us well And said goodnight to us all. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2017, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8793 "2017-07-12T14:57:22Z")
Meet James Ensor Belgium’s famous painter Dig him up and shake his hand Appreciate the man ---
**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:** [July 12, 2017, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8794 "2017-07-12T15:11:28Z")
I keep your picture Upon the wall It hides a nasty stain that’s lying there So don’t you ask me To give it back ---
**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:** [July 12, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8795 "2017-07-12T16:31:51Z")
There’s a girl in my room and her face on the wall with no eyes. There’s a girl in my room and her face on the wall with no eyes. Girl with no eyes, who can she be? The girl with no eyes, she’s looking at me. There’s a girl in my room and her face on the wall with no eyes. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2017, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8796 "2017-07-12T17:05:28Z")
Eyes without a face (les yeux sans visage) Eyes without a face, got no human grace your eyes without a face ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8797 "2017-07-12T22:24:14Z")
I look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through Looking into their eyes I see them running too ---
**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:** [July 12, 2017, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8798 "2017-07-12T22:44:31Z")
Run Joey , Joey run run the hounds are on your trail Jump-up Jump-up Run Joey , Joey run run they’re gonna send you back to jail ---
**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:** [July 13, 2017, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8799 "2017-07-13T00:02:40Z")
Hey Joe, where you goin’ with that gun in your hand? Hey Joe, I said where you goin’ with that gun in your hand? I’m goin’ down to shoot my old lady You know I caught her messin’ 'round with another 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:** [July 13, 2017, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8800 "2017-07-13T00:06:53Z")
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