# 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:** 97
**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:** [September 26, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1921 "2014-09-26T15:56:21Z")
'Cause you’ll never break, never break, never break, never break This heart of stone Oh, no, no, you’ll never break this heart of stone darlin No, no, this heart of stone ---
**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 26, 2014, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1922 "2014-09-26T19:11:57Z")
Born of cold and winter air And mountain rain combining… This icy force both foul and fair Has a frozen heart worth mining ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1923 "2014-09-26T19:32:41Z")
I want to live, I want to give I’ve been a miner for a heart of gold. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1924 "2014-09-26T19:36:00Z")
We bring more than a paycheck to our loved ones and family. We bring asbestosis, silicosis, brown lung, black lung disease. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1925 "2014-09-26T20:44:55Z")
Picket lines and picket signs Don’t punish me with brutality Talk to me So you can see What’s going on ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1926 "2014-09-26T21:08:56Z")
My daddy was miner and I’m a miner’s son and I’ll stick with the union 'til every battles done. Which side are you on? Which side are you on? ---
**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 26, 2014, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1927 "2014-09-26T21:32:23Z")
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill I will choose a path that’s clear I will choose freewill ---
**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 26, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1928 "2014-09-26T23:00:06Z")
Hear the cry of war, louder than before With his sword in hand, to control the land Crushing metal strikes, on this frightening night Fall onto your knees for the Phantom Lord ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1929 "2014-09-26T23:15:06Z")
I see all of Southeast Asia I can see El Salvador I hear the cries of children And the other songs of war ---
**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 27, 2014, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1930 "2014-09-27T01:35:28Z")
Conquistador of Mexico, the Zulu and the Navaho The Belgians in the Congo short memory Plantation in Virginia, the Raj in British India The deadline in South Africa short memory The story of El Salvador, the silence of Hiroshima Destruction of Cambodia short memory ---
**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 27, 2014, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1931 "2014-09-27T02:13:00Z")
12 days of total eclipse Yet the stillness rules this night of mist But slowly clouds of death are forming The time has come to reap Burning skies - Battle cries Total destruction ---
**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 27, 2014, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1932 "2014-09-27T02:30:48Z")
Hate your next-door neighbor, but don’t forget to say grace And, tell me over and over and over and over again, my friend You don’t believe We’re on the eve of destruction ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2014, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1933 "2014-09-27T03:07:52Z")
But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud That man’s been endowed with a mushroom shaped cloud And we know for certain that some lovely day Someone will set the spark off And we will all be blown away ---
**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 27, 2014, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1934 "2014-09-27T04:39:01Z")
Fire your guns, it’s time to run Blow me away (I will stay, in the mess I made) After the fall, we’ll shake it off Show me the way ---
**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 27, 2014, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1935 "2014-09-27T12:39:11Z")
Won’t you open your eyes, I know you really care You see these games you play, they’re just not fair After all the good times and secrets we’ve shared Won’t you show me the way to go–I don’t know ---
**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 27, 2014, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1936 "2014-09-27T21:23:15Z")
Oh won’t you show me the way, every day ---
**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 27, 2014, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1937 "2014-09-27T21:40:10Z")
Every day, every day, every day, every day I write the book. ---
**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 28, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1938 "2014-09-28T01:11:50Z")
Seaside town in winter, I’m trying to write my book She’s broken down, it’s raining, I said I’d have a look Uncurling human tragedy, appropriately a mystery She tells my story back to me she said I’ll live this chapter till eternity ---
**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 28, 2014, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1939 "2014-09-28T01:16:17Z")
I wonder wonder who, oouu who Who wrote the book of love ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speak-to-me-in-succinct-song-lyrics/691666/1940 "2014-09-28T01:26:24Z")
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