# 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:** 489
**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:** [May 21, 2018, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9761 "2018-05-21T16:22:19Z")
You take my self, you take my self control You got me livin’ only for the night Before the morning comes, the story’s told You take my self, you take my self control ---
**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:** [May 21, 2018, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9762 "2018-05-21T16:57:28Z")
Got to get some food I’m so hungry all the time I don’t know how to stop, I don’t know how to stop Got to get some sleep I’m so nervous in the night I don’t know how to stop, no I don’t know how to stop ---
**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:** [May 21, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9763 "2018-05-21T17:00:14Z")
Oh, but folks lately I have been spotted With a Big Mac on my breath Stumbling into a Colonel Sanders With a face as white as death I’m afraid someday theyll find me Just stretched out on my bed With a handful of Pringles Potato Chips And a Ding Dong by my head In the daytime I’m Mr. Natural Just as healthy as I can be But at night I’m a junk food junkie Good Lord have pity on 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:** [May 22, 2018, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9764 "2018-05-22T00:44:59Z")
How come you’re always such a fussy young man Don’t want no Cap’n Crunch, don’t want no Raisin Bran Well don’t you know that other kids are starvin’ in Japan So eat it, just eat it ---
**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:** [May 22, 2018, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9765 "2018-05-22T01:02:58Z")
Don’t want to be a fat man, have not the patience to ignore all that. Hate to admit to myself half of my problems came from being fat. Won’t waste my time feeling sorry for him, I seen the other side to being thin. Roll us both down a mountain and I’m sure the fat man would win. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2018, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9766 "2018-05-22T01:28:27Z")
They called him Irving. Big Irving. Big, short Irving. Big, short, fat Irving. The hundred and forty-second fastest gun in the West. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9767 "2018-05-22T18:00:15Z")
When I hold you in my arms And I feel my finger on your trigger I know nobody can do me no harm Because happiness is a warm gun ---
**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:** [May 22, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9768 "2018-05-22T18:11:09Z")
Happiness is two kinds of ice cream Knowing a secret Climbing a tree ---
**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:** [May 23, 2018, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9769 "2018-05-23T03:33:46Z")
If you fall asleep with me You can dream and drowse The minutes turn to hours We could climb a tree or two And watch the sun go down Upon our sleepy town ---
**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:** [May 23, 2018, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9770 "2018-05-23T13:06:50Z")
Don’t let the sun catch you cryin’ The night’s the time for all your tears Your heart may be broken tonight But tomorrow in the morning light Don’t let the sun catch you cryin’ The night-time shadows disappear And with them go all your tears For the morning will bring joy For every girl and boy So don’t let the sun catch you cryin’ ---
**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:** [May 23, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9771 "2018-05-23T14:49:32Z")
She said ‘hi’ and asked me why Was I looking with sorrow When there were much brighter days In store for me tomorrow I looked up at her and smiled And said, why I don’t know But would she agree, to stay with me And she said Never in your sun, she said Never in your sun, then she said I will only come In your pouring rain to relieve the pain ---
**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:** [May 23, 2018, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9772 "2018-05-23T15:17:12Z")
The problem is all inside your head, she said to me The answer is easy if you take it logically I’d like to help you in your struggle to be free There must be fifty ways to leave your lover ---
**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:** [May 23, 2018, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9773 "2018-05-23T16:25:01Z")
1 law for the officers 1 for the gentlemen 2 bad you 3 know what it’s 4 5 for this awful dive 6 for the genetics 7 for the lucky pricks who went into heaven 1 for the flaming sun 2 for the location 3 for the martyrs and the stars 4 for the wind and sand 5 so you understand 6 for the slips 'twixt the cup and the lips 1 for the cockpit blues 2 for the Panzer crews 3 for the vast and molten sky 4 for the failed talks 5 for the knives and forks 6 for forbidden kicks ---
**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:** [May 23, 2018, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9774 "2018-05-23T17:56:50Z")
Time to gather your arse up off the floor, (have a bana-na) Brush your teeth and go toddling off to war, Wave your hand to sleepy land, Kiss those dreams away, Tell Miss Grable you’re not able, Not till V-E Day, oh, ---
**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:** [May 24, 2018, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9775 "2018-05-24T02:41:11Z")
F is for fighting, R is for red Ancestors’ blood in battles they’ve shed E, we elect them, E, we eject them In the land of the free, and the home of the brave D, for your dying, O, your overture M, they will cover your grave with manure This spells out F-R-E-E-D-O-M, it means nothing to me As long as there’s a P.M.R.C. ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9776 "2018-05-24T15:17:09Z")
With my silver Buddha And my silver bullet. (I’m pulling on the pin, ) Ooh, I pull out, pull out the pin. (pulling on the pin, oh) Just one thing in it Me or him. Just one thing in it Me or him. And I love life! Just one thing in it Me or him. And I love life! I love life! I love life! ---
**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:** [May 24, 2018, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9777 "2018-05-24T18:20:35Z")
You better get back honky cat Living in the city ain’t no where it’s at It’s like trying to find gold in a silver mine It’s like trying to drink whisky, ohh from a bottle of wine ---
**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:** [May 26, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9778 "2018-05-26T15:40:53Z")
Get back Get back Get back to where you once belonged ---
**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:** [May 26, 2018, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9779 "2018-05-26T18:19:30Z")
We belong to the light, we belong to the thunder We belong to the sound of the words we’ve both fallen under Whatever we deny or embrace for worse or for better We belong, we belong, we belong 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:** [May 26, 2018, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9780 "2018-05-26T23:09:24Z")
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