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‘Cause I can’ t read the number that you just gave me
4662
There’s something in my eyes
4663
You know it happens every time
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I think about the love that I thought would save me
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But isn’t that the way they say it goes
4666
Well let’s forget all that
4667
And give me the number if you can find it
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So I can call just to tell 'em I’m fine, and to show
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I’ve overcome the blow
4670
I’ve learned to take it well
4671
I only wish my words
4672
Could just convince myself
4673
That it just wasn’t real
(Somehow this songs seems very similar to Martha, by Tom Waits to me. There is also a Chuck Berry song with a similar subject and a twist at the end, I just can’t think of the title right now).
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But that’s not the way it feels
[I don’t know of the Tom Waits song, or the Chuck Berry song, but it’s a common enough theme–the guy at a payphone trying to call his girlfriend. Hell, that was me in 1985, in a truck stop near Kingston, Ontario, on a late-night call, digging for change at a payphone that would let me extend that call to my girlfriend in Toronto. I didn’t succeed, and the operator cut us off.]
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No, no, no, no
That’s not the way it feels
[Memphis, Tennessee is the title of the song by Chuck Berry I was looking for. Maybe the telephone systems are different in the USA and Europe, but this operator/girlfriend trope strikes me as very American. Not objecting, but I can’t think of a European song about the same subject.]
4676
Operator, well, let’s forget about this call.
[American and Canadian. They are alike in so many ways, including this song. Like I indicated, I begged the operator to find just three more minutes if I could produce a nickel. I couldn’t, so she cut the call off.]
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Pardel-Lux, you might enjoy this video of the troubles with telephony in North America, back in the day:
“And the operator says forty cents more for the next three minutes.” Yep, been there, done that, bought the T-shirt.
4678
There’s no one there I really wanted to talk to
[I can’t remember when I last talked to an operator, I probably never have. I was born 1964.]
4679
Coincidences are interesting, not because they point to a hidden meaning, but because they show what you pay attention to. By chance I just came across this article on pay phones, I didn’t search for it. And I am not a Bloomberg subscriber or habitual reader. Curious.
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Thank you for your time