Name: Dial Tone
Duration: P00H08M23S
Description: Can I be totally honest here? I hate this song. I only keep putting it up online as a kind of artistic honesty thing.

Dial Tone

from Hangups EP by Boy Without God

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Can I be totally honest here? I hate this song. I only keep putting it up online as a kind of artistic honesty thing.

lyrics

it’s hard to remember that she once loved me true
while the pay phone dial tone howls at my ear from the blue
that there once was a time when she’d never hang up on me
I just want to talk but she says she must be free

it’s hard in november, and all through the holidays
as my little apartment gets smaller day by day
she’s abandoned the years she now regrets
yesterday i stared at her number and smoked three cigarettes

I guess I understand
that I will never know
why she’s on dry land
and I’m immersed below

Nothing is wrong I don’t have any less
reason to live than I did before we met
It’s easy to reason your way out of these caves
but turn out the lights and everything’s the same

I took out my gun
laid it on my bed
and though I closed my eyes
I couldn’t make it end
all these telephones
only serve to say
no one wants to know
how bad it is today

Groceries, garbage bags everyday supplies
never looked so lonely in this life
I open each letter for occupant dropped at my door
I hunt for bargains but what am I saving for

I guess I understand
that I will never know
why she gets another life
and mine winds down to close

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from Hangups EP, released January 1, 2007

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