Janis Ian - Mechanical Telephone Lyrics
Dark night but there's plenty to believe in...
Why'd you have to let her touch your feelings?
I always gave you everything that you needed
All you had to do was ask - but you just got greedy
To the voices that you leave
On your mechanical telephone
Sometimes I call just to hear your voice
Set free of the talons and claws
But the memory I keep
Doesn't really let me leave any word at all
You always liked any woman who was easy
Hope you've met your match... but can she beat me?
You always said I'd be the first to walk
Now we rarely talk alone. We usually speak in groups
To the people you invite
For the theater and a bite who are used to you
They like to listen to their own mouths move
They like to watch your jaw drop, too
But the witticisms fade when the covers
Are unmade and I'm so far away
I bet you thought I'd be an easy lay
I bet you thought I lived alone
Hungry for the vision and the afterplay
I've had better times alone
Now we rarely talk of love. We only speak of need
And the sacrifice of life
To the altar and the knife on our mound of greed
I rarely call just to hear your voice
Set free of the pillars and stone
But for the company I keep when I speak
To your mechanical telephone
It's the company I keep when I speak
Your mechanical telephone
The company I keep...
Other Lyrics by Artist
- Janis Ian - Welcome To Acousticville
- Janis Ian - No One Else Like You
- Janis Ian - Tenderness
- Janis Ian - Take No Prisoners
- Janis Ian - Ready For The War
- Janis Ian - Breaking Silence
- Janis Ian - Some People's Lives
- Janis Ian - This House
- Janis Ian - Through The Years
- Janis Ian - This Train Still Runs
- Janis Ian - Walking On Sacred Ground
- Janis Ian - His Hands
- Janis Ian - What About The Love
- Janis Ian - Davy
- Janis Ian - When The Silence Falls
- Janis Ian - Hunger
- Janis Ian - Searching For America
- Janis Ian - Getting Over You
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