# Speak to me in succinct song lyrics

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666>\
**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\
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**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:** [September 12, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9081 "2017-09-12T14:44:18Z")

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Hush little baby don’t say a word  
And nevermind that noise you heard  
It’s just the beasts under your bed  
In your closet in your head

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**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:** [September 12, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9082 "2017-09-12T14:47:52Z")

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Stay in your bed  
There are landmines on the floor.  
The demons in your bed  
are going to eat you up

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**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:** [September 14, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9083 "2017-09-14T00:51:21Z")

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Sitting on the bed or lying wide awake  
There’s demons in my head and it’s more than I can take  
I think I’m on a roll but I think it’s kinda weak  
Saying all I know is I gotta get away from me  
Gotta get away from me

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**Author:** ![4d3fect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/4d3fect/32/9728_2.png) [@4d3fect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4d3fect)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9084 "2017-09-14T03:29:29Z")

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All the girls around her say she’s got it coming  
But she gets it while she can  
Get back  
Get back  
Get back to where you once belonged

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**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:** [September 14, 2017, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9085 "2017-09-14T03:37:19Z")

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Love is good, love can be strong  
We gotta get right back to where started from

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**Author:** ![Maybenot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Maybenot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maybenot)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9086 "2017-09-14T10:01:38Z")

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Remember when old ones died and new were born  
And life was changed, disassembled, rearranged  
We came together, fell apart  
And broke each other’s hearts  
Remember when

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**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:** [September 14, 2017, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9087 "2017-09-14T12:26:18Z")

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Do do do do do you remember  
Do do do do do you recall  
The day we went out into the country  
Just to get away from it all?

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**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:** [September 14, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9088 "2017-09-14T15:54:17Z")

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Do you remember Hullabaloo?  
Upbeat, Shinding and Ed Sullivan too?  
Do you remember rock’n’roll radio?  
Do you remember rock’n’roll radio?

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**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:** [September 14, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9089 "2017-09-14T16:21:43Z")

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Lonely when I hear the band  
That used to play when we were looking for music  
Lonely when I hear the band  
Do you remember, do you recall?

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**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:** [September 14, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9090 "2017-09-14T17:22:13Z")

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Her name is Lola, she was a showgirl  
But that was thirty years ago, when they used to have a show  
Now it’s a disco, but not for Lola  
Still in dress she used to wear  
Faded feathers in her hair

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**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:** [September 14, 2017, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9091 "2017-09-14T22:58:18Z")

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I will wear your white feather  
I will carry your white flag  
I will swear I have no nation  
But I’m proud to own my heart  
My heart, this is my heart

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**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:** [September 14, 2017, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9092 "2017-09-14T23:33:32Z")

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You’re in my heart, you’re in my soul  
You’ll be my breath should I grow old  
You are my lover, you’re my best friend  
You’re in my soul

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**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:** [September 15, 2017, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9093 "2017-09-15T12:38:43Z")

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'Cause only you can complete my soul  
Only you can make me whole  
Will you take my hand  
Without you I’m just half a man  
You complete my soul

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**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:** [September 15, 2017, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9094 "2017-09-15T16:55:30Z")

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But it ain’t no easy thing we’ve got to do  
And I love her cause she knows it too  
She surely made me understand  
It takes a woman’s love to make a man  
It takes a woman’s love to make a man

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**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:** [September 15, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9095 "2017-09-15T22:24:48Z")

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Woman needs man  
And man must have his mate  
That no one can deny.

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**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:** [September 16, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9096 "2017-09-16T00:13:50Z")

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A woman needs a man  
Like a fish needs a bicycle

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**Author:** ![4d3fect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/4d3fect/32/9728_2.png) [@4d3fect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4d3fect)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2017, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9097 "2017-09-16T00:35:48Z")

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In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man  
With the man in the woman and the woman in the man  
In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man  
We wanted the the union oh the union of the woman, the woman and the man

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**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:** [September 16, 2017, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9098 "2017-09-16T00:46:08Z")

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Voices in your body coming through on the radio  
The union of the snake is on the climb  
Moving up it’s gonna race it’s gonna break  
Through the borderline

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**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:** [September 16, 2017, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9099 "2017-09-16T11:56:23Z")

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Nightingale hovering high  
Harmonize the wind  
Darkness, your symphony  
I can hear you sing  
Of voices in the sky

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**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:** [September 16, 2017, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9100 "2017-09-16T12:26:05Z")

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That certain night  
The night we met  
There was magic abroad in the air  
There were angels dining at the Ritz  
And a nightingale sang in Berkeley square

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