# 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:** 441
**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 13, 2017, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8801 "2017-07-13T01:16:34Z")
Deep in her fear At the heel of misfortune She’s got my name, she’s got my number As I pass her on the stairs Oooooh she’s a mover And she moves in and out of time ---
**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, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8802 "2017-07-13T01:23:37Z")
Rikki don’t lose that number You don’t want to call nobody else Send it off in a letter to yourself ---
**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 13, 2017, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8803 "2017-07-13T03:00:07Z")
I’m gonna sit right down and write myself a letter And make believe it came from you I’m gonna write words, oh, so sweet They’re gonna knock me off my feet ---
**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:** [July 13, 2017, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8804 "2017-07-13T10:21:02Z")
On a day like today We pass the time away Writing love letters in the sand How you laughed when I cried Each time I saw the tide ---
**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 13, 2017, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8805 "2017-07-13T12:33:09Z")
In autumn he comes to this town When the peoples’ guard is down On a day like today overcast and gray Bells were all ringing, the birds stopped their singing The wind caught in the trees screaming to be free He alights from the platform in his usual uniform His skin looks like he slept in it Or had something rotten kept in it And snakes stir in the thistles Back of cats’ neck bristles Round vicious lips the fur is stained The disillusionist is back again ---
**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, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8806 "2017-07-13T12:33:54Z")
I said, watch what you say or they’ll be calling you a radical, Liberal, oh fanatical, criminal Won’t you sign up your name, we’d like to feel you’re Acceptable Respectable, oh presentable, a vegetable! ---
**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 13, 2017, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8807 "2017-07-13T13:19:46Z")
Gloria (Gloria), I think they got your number (Gloria) I think they got the alias (Gloria) that you’ve been living under (Gloria) But you really don’t remember, was it something that they said? All the voices in your head calling, Gloria? ---
**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 13, 2017, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8808 "2017-07-13T15:08:54Z")
Angels we have heard on high Sweetly singing o’er the plains And the mountains in reply Echoing their joyous strains. Gloria In excelsis Deo Gloria In excelsis Deo ---
**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 13, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8809 "2017-07-13T16:30:01Z")
Helter skelter in a summer swelter The birds flew off with a fallout shelter Eight miles high and falling fast It landed foul on the grass The players tried for a forward pass With the jester on the sidelines in a cast Now the halftime air was sweet perfume While the sergeants played a marching tune We all got up to dance Oh, but we never got the chance ---
**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 13, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8810 "2017-07-13T18:27:44Z")
[can’t resist the big fat one right down the middle] Eight miles high and when you touch down You’ll find that it’s stranger than known Signs in the street that say where you’re going Out somewhere just being their own Nowhere is there warmth to be found Among those afraid of losing their ground Rain gray town known for its sound In places small faces unbound ---
**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, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8811 "2017-07-13T23:46:17Z")
Well, we all fall in love But we disregard the danger Though we share so many secrets There are some we never tell Why were you so surprised That you never saw the stranger Did you ever let your lover see The stranger in yourself? ---
**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 14, 2017, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8812 "2017-07-14T01:23:11Z")
In the empty place you change your mind You change your clothes you change your pose For a perfect fit I forget the cast, as I stare into your past For a moment we’re strangers For a minute you look away For a second or always For an instant another day Such strange things you say ---
**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 14, 2017, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8813 "2017-07-14T01:27:26Z")
Why were you so surprised That you never saw the stranger Did you ever let your lover see The stranger in yourself? ---
**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 14, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8814 "2017-07-14T16:06:55Z")
That one now stands in 2nd place IIRC… Would you pay life’s pleasure to see me? Does it hurt, for I want you to remain? I run your hair through, in another decade Sumerland holds me, in Sumerian haze And we’re getting closer And we’re getting close now Last exit for the lost ---
**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 14, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8815 "2017-07-14T23:29:08Z")
This is not an exit I can never change it You stop and then you take it I stop and I can’t fake it This is not an exit ---
**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 15, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8816 "2017-07-15T00:07:33Z")
Just one look at Mr. Grant, And Louis felt a pain: So he walked right in, turned around, And he walked right out again. ---
**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 15, 2017, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8817 "2017-07-15T01:25:33Z")
On a foggy day Revolving doors in London to a foggy day in Boston Revolving doors in London to a foggy day in Boston I sit in a diner And the Beatles play ---
**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 15, 2017, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8818 "2017-07-15T01:28:42Z")
I am sitting In the morning At the diner On the corner I am waiting At the counter For the man To pour the coffee ---
**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 15, 2017, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8819 "2017-07-15T14:24:39Z")
Way down among Brazilians Coffee beans grow by the billions So they’ve got to find those extra cups to fill They’ve got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil You can’t get cherry soda 'Cause they’ve got to fill that quota And the way things are I’ll bet they never will They’ve got a zillion tons of coffee in Brazil No tea or tomato juice You’ll see no potato juice The planters down in Santos all say no no no ---
**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 15, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/8820 "2017-07-15T14:30:13Z")
I love coffee, I love tea I love the java jive and it loves me Coffee and tea and the java and me A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup (boy!) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=440) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=442)