# 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:** 93
**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 21, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1841 "2014-09-21T20:21:27Z")
Measure by measure, drop by drop And pound for pound, we’re taking stock Of all the treasure still unlocked The love you found must never stop ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1842 "2014-09-22T03:36:36Z")
Selling England by the pound ---
**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 22, 2014, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1843 "2014-09-22T13:18:51Z")
God save the queen She ain’t no human being There is no future In England’s dreaming ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1844 "2014-09-22T13:22:14Z")
England swings like a pendulum do, Bobbies on bicycles, two by two, Westminster Abbey the tower of Big Ben, The rosy red cheeks of the little children. ---
**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 22, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1845 "2014-09-22T13:24:42Z")
So turn your back, and wiggle softly from me!. With mini-skirt, (perhaps, no underwear!). Your legs are great! But, by the Gods above me!. I watch your wondrous London derriere! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1846 "2014-09-22T13:56:22Z")
There she was just walkin’ down the street Singin’, “Do wah diddy, diddy, dum diddy do” ---
**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 22, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1847 "2014-09-22T15:51:07Z")
The only one I see, is mine when she walks down our street The only one I see, has carved her way into 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:** [September 22, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1848 "2014-09-22T17:19:58Z")
If you see me walking down the street And I start to cry each time we meet: Walk on by, walk on by. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1849 "2014-09-22T17:24:05Z")
If I cross your path again, who knows where, who knows when On some morning without number, on some highway without end Don’t grasp my hand and say “Fate has brought you here today” Oh fate is only fooling with us, friend ---
**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 22, 2014, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1850 "2014-09-22T17:25:28Z")
Like the twilight in the road up ahead, they don’t see just where we’re goin’. And all the secrets in the Universe, whisper in our ears And all the years will come and go, take us up, always up. We may never pass this way again. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1851 "2014-09-22T17:27:42Z")
Don’t leave me alone in the twilight The twilight is the loneliest time of day ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1852 "2014-09-22T17:34:13Z")
Lonely, I’m so lonely I feel so alone I feel low ---
**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 22, 2014, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1853 "2014-09-22T18:57:54Z")
I skipped the part about love It seems so silly and low I skipped the part about love It seems so shallow and low Low, low, low ---
**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 22, 2014, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1854 "2014-09-22T23:17:18Z")
Shallow, shallow, give it to me Scissors cutting out your anger Shallow, shallow, no good to me, not if you bleed Bite your tongue, ignore the splinter ---
**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 22, 2014, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1855 "2014-09-22T23:21:24Z")
So bite your tongue You’re not the only one Who’s been let down ---
**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 23, 2014, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1856 "2014-09-23T00:11:16Z")
You’re just an antenna, you’re just a wire There’s a thousand tongues wagging in your ears tonight And you turn around and you call me a liar ---
**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 23, 2014, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1857 "2014-09-23T00:36:12Z")
Can you remember, remember my name? As I flow through your life A thousand oceans I have flown ---
**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 23, 2014, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1858 "2014-09-23T00:46:49Z")
Hands across the water, heads across the sky, Hands across the water, heads across the sky. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1859 "2014-09-23T00:49:46Z")
One million salt seas Recalled from school atlas Alas would be filled to the brim Sunny Jim couldn’t jump 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:** [September 23, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1860 "2014-09-23T17:40:41Z")
Hands across the ocean, reaching out for you Across the waves, across the water, reaching out for you Hands across the ocean, reaching out for you Across the waves, across the water Hands, across the ocean [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=92) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666.md?page=94)