# 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:** 511
**Author:** ![backsidejohnny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/backsidejohnny/32/280_2.png) [@backsidejohnny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/backsidejohnny)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2019, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/10201 "2019-06-07T23:45:32Z")
Stay awhile, let me hold you Stay awhile till I’ve told you, oh, oh Of the love that I feel tonight, oh yeah ---
**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 25, 2019, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/10202 "2019-06-25T12:46:17Z")
Tonight, tonight It all began tonight I saw you and the world went away Tonight, tonight There’s only you tonight What you are, what you do, what you say ---
**Author:** ![backsidejohnny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/backsidejohnny/32/280_2.png) [@backsidejohnny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/backsidejohnny)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/10203 "2019-06-26T14:45:47Z")
Tonight you’re mine completely You give your love so sweetly Tonight the light of love is in your eyes But will you love me tomorrow ---
**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 26, 2019, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/10204 "2019-06-26T17:10:57Z")
I’ll learn a new song tomorrow But until tomorrow “Tomorrow” will have to do. I’ll sing a new song tomorrow But you’ll just have to sit there in your sorrow Until I do. ---
**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 27, 2019, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/10205 "2019-06-27T17:06:46Z")
Yester-me yester-you yesterday Where did it go that yester glow When we could feel ---
**Author:** ![backsidejohnny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/backsidejohnny/32/280_2.png) [@backsidejohnny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/backsidejohnny)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/10206 "2019-07-03T16:31:27Z")
There’ll be good times again for me and you, But we just can’t stay together; don’t you feel it too? Still I’m glad for what we had and how I once loved you. ---
**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 3, 2019, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/10207 "2019-07-03T16:34:15Z")
The songs still are sung It was fun to be young But please don’t be sad wherever you are. I am who I am You are who you are ---
**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 4, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/10208 "2019-07-04T15:19:48Z")
Grow old along with me The best is yet to be When our time has come We will be as one God bless our love God bless our love ---
**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 9, 2019, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/10209 "2019-07-09T04:08:50Z")
The human race has walked the earth for 2.7 million And we estimate the universe at 13-14 billion When all these numbers tumble into your imagination Consider that the Lord was there before creation God is old We’re not old ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2019, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/10210 "2019-07-09T05:23:44Z")
Old man, look at my life I’m a lot like you were ---
**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, 2019, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/10211 "2019-07-10T00:07:06Z")
Old man passing by Tell me what you sing Though your voice be faint I am listening Voices in the sky ---
**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, 2019, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/10212 "2019-07-11T13:12:31Z")
Open up your eyes, old man, Look who’s come to say goodbye. ---
**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, 2019, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/10213 "2019-07-12T01:28:51Z")
This old man, he played one He played knick-knack on my thumb With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home. ---
**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, 2019, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/10214 "2019-07-12T12:47:48Z")
Won’t you come home Bill Bailey, won’t you come home? She moans the whole day long. I’ll do the cooking darling, I’ll pay the rent; I knows I’ve done you wrong; ---
**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, 2019, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/10215 "2019-07-12T13:38:44Z")
All night long Someone’s trying to believe that he’s strong. Will he make it by the break of the day? Who can say whose power is growing? I can’t wait for winds to blow my way. Let them shake the world I know I know my way, I know that songs that died unsung Know their way too. Most songs do. Most songs do. ---
**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, 2019, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/10216 "2019-07-12T18:11:33Z")
Some folks like to sigh, Some folks do, some folks do; Some folks long to die, But that’s not me nor you. ---
**Author:** ![backsidejohnny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/backsidejohnny/32/280_2.png) [@backsidejohnny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/backsidejohnny)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/10217 "2019-07-14T17:25:02Z")
Some people are made of plastic And you know some people are made of wood Some people have hearts of stone Some people are up to no good But baby I’m for real I’m as real as real can get If what you’re looking for is real loving Then what you see is what you get ---
**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 14, 2019, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/10218 "2019-07-14T17:42:26Z")
He’s got a plastic heart, plastic teeth and toes, He’s got plastic knees and a perfect plastic nose. He’s got plastic lips that hide his plastic teeth and gums, And plastic legs that reach up to his plastic bum. ---
**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 14, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/10219 "2019-07-14T19:54:53Z")
Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby, Ain’t nothing like the real thing. Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby, Ain’t nothing like the real thing. ---
**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, 2019, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/10220 "2019-07-14T21:28:00Z")
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