Janis Ian Lyrics
Mechanical Telephone

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.

Now the only time we talk,
Is when we talk alone,
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.
You say I'm always the first to talk.
But can she free me?

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.
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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
To your mechanical telephone.
The company I keep.


[MECHANICAL TELEPHONE]
[Written by: Janis Ian
Performed by: Janis Ian-1983
Appears on: Uncle Wonderful-1983 [1] , Souvenirs: Best of Janis Ian
1972-1981 (CD)-2004, (CD Bonus Tracks)-2004 & (CD/DVD Bonus Tracks)-2006.]

[1] Transcribed from the track on this album.]

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