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Phone Slave

from Mighty Long Crawl by China Clippers

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lyrics

What happened that day? The din shaking me quotidian in my brain made division.
Was it the radio or was it the phone? Well anyhow, it's rubble now.
Used to live that way, where beck and call is your name.
"Drop what you're doing" say the bells that ring.

En route you sing,
"Now I'm on Fifth Street coming from midtown. Now I'm coming from West Main down Third Avenue."

Ambulate, motor, everybody's on the phone.
People talking so loud that they forget they have neighbors and they're not alone.

Crazy, all of us. Everybody's on the phone. Everybody's talking loud.
People are scared, and who has time to be alone?

I won't be that way.
I won't be your phone slave.
Maybe your love slave. Consider it.
I won't conversate while on me you wait.
Respect for ministration,
I won't give in to that toy so thin.
I won't give in to a craze. It's sin.

And I want to put a stop to it. But how?
Here's how:

On the bus everybody's on the phone. My little black box will stop them. Push the button when
deference does not show. Push the little red button and cease their yammering, they'll take the tacit home.

Though I'm put away from the light of day, It's quiet and I can't complain.

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from Mighty Long Crawl, released January 1, 2002

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