# 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:** 491
**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:** [June 2, 2018, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9801 "2018-06-02T18:25:11Z")
Come on ev’rybody, I say now let’s play a game I betcha I can make a rhyme out of anybody’s name The first letter of the name I treat it like it wasn’t there But a “B” or an “F” or an “M” will appear And then I say “Bo” add a “B” then I say the name Then “Bo-na-na fanna” and “fo” And then I say the name again with an "“f” very plain Then “fee fi” and a “mo” And then I say the name again with an “M” this time And there isn’t any name that I can’t rhyme Arnold! Arnold, Arnold bo-bar-nold Bo-na-na, fanna fo-far-nold Fee fi m-mar-mold. Arnold! ---
**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:** [June 2, 2018, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9802 "2018-06-02T18:55:47Z")
Fee, fie, foe, fum I smell the blood of an Englishman Be he 'live, or be he dead I’ll grind his bones to make my bread ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2018, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9803 "2018-06-02T23:39:56Z")
Why are we here? \* Because we’re here.\* Roll the bones. Why does it happen? \* Because it happens.\* Roll the bones. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2018, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9804 "2018-06-03T02:31:33Z")
Won’t someone wake the dead in me? Won’t someone shake the dust off me? Give me water, give me bread But don’t give me up for dead We’re living like skeletons ---
**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:** [June 3, 2018, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9805 "2018-06-03T03:00:41Z")
I sneak in my own house It’s four in the morning I’ve had too much to drink Said I was out with the boys I creep in my bedroom, I slip into bed I know if I wake her I’ll wake up dead ---
**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:** [June 3, 2018, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9806 "2018-06-03T03:05:40Z")
All I did was have a bit too much to drink And I picked the wrong precinct Got picked up by the law And now I ain’t got time to think Gonna buy a tank and an aeroplane When she catches up with me Won’t be no time to explain She thinks I’ve been with another woman And that’s enough to send her half insane ---
**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:** [June 3, 2018, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9807 "2018-06-03T06:10:27Z")
I been running trying to get hung up in my mind Got to give myself a good talking-to this time Just need a little brain salad surgery Got to cure my insecurity I been in the wrong place but it must have been the right time I been in the right place but it must have been the wrong song I been in the right vein but it seems like the wrong arm I been in the right world but it seems wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong ---
**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:** [June 3, 2018, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9808 "2018-06-03T14:04:27Z")
[Google confirmed that the above is NOT, unbelievably, the ELP song. But this one is:] Brain Salad Surgery It will murder you, it murdered me We made it for our enemy Brain Salad Surgery We’ve got a ballad About a salad brain With assurgence In a dirty bit 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:** [June 4, 2018, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9809 "2018-06-04T21:11:03Z")
I’m Hannibal Lecter, son Just in case you’re thinkin’ of savin’ face You ain’t gonna have no face to save By the time I’m through with this place ---
**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:** [June 5, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9810 "2018-06-05T02:43:46Z")
Welcoming the virgins fair, to live a noble life In the castle known to all - the Count’s infernal wife She invites the peasants with endless lavish foods But, when evening spreads it wings, she rapes them of their blood Countess Bathory - Countess Bathory ---
**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:** [June 5, 2018, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9811 "2018-06-05T11:56:30Z")
White on white translucent black capes Back on the rack Bela Lugosi’s dead The bats have left the bell tower The victims have been bled Red velvet lines the black box ---
**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:** [June 5, 2018, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9812 "2018-06-05T12:35:23Z")
Put a stake through my heart And drag me into sunlight So awake for your greed As you’re slaying the dreamer Blame me, it’s me Coward, a good for nothing scapegoat Dumb kid, living a dream Romantic only on the paper ---
**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:** [June 5, 2018, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9813 "2018-06-05T13:26:50Z")
Everyone considered him the coward of the county He’d never stood one single time to prove the county wrong. His mama named him Tommy, but folks just called him yellow, Something always told me they were reading Tommy wrong. He was only ten years old when his daddy died in prison; I took care of Tommy, 'cause he was my brother’s son. I still recall the final words my brother said to Tommy, “Son my life is over, but yours has just begun”. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9814 "2018-06-05T13:33:48Z")
We’ve only just begun to live… ---
**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:** [June 5, 2018, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9815 "2018-06-05T15:58:46Z")
Tell me how it happened did it hurt did you cry? Did you ever feel yourself falling out of the sky? Did you ever lie awake and wonder why? Did you ever fall asleep and dream that you died? Now it’s time to slow things down Because I told you life speeds up and up and up ---
**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:** [June 5, 2018, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9816 "2018-06-05T16:20:35Z")
Take It easy, take it easy Don’t let the sound of your own wheels Drive you crazy ---
**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:** [June 5, 2018, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9817 "2018-06-05T16:23:50Z")
I’m just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round I really love to watch them roll No longer riding on the merry-go-round I just had to let it go ---
**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:** [June 7, 2018, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9818 "2018-06-07T03:04:46Z")
Cogs in cogs wheel turning around, The circle tuns around, The changing voices calling Circle turns around, The changing voices. Slow burning is the fire rising murmur breaks The old circle, the wheel slowly turns around. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2018, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9819 "2018-06-07T03:44:28Z")
What goes up must come down Spinnin’ wheel got to go ‘round Talkin’ ‘bout your troubles it’s a cryin’ sin Ride a painted pony let the spinnin’ wheel spin ---
**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:** [June 11, 2018, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/9820 "2018-06-11T00:35:43Z")
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