A late-80s Australian pop song about a one-sided love that never quite connected.
A late-80s Australian pop song about a one-sided love that never quite connected.
This isn't a song about a breakup so much as a song about realizing there was never a real connection to begin with.
The 'never-ending run-around' feels more exhausting than dramatic.
A late-80s Australian pop song about a one-sided love that never quite connected.
Telephone / The only bridge onto the isle of you
This isn't a song about a breakup so much as a song about realizing there was never a real connection to begin with. The 'never-ending run-around' feels more exhausting than dramatic.
The 'telephone' line is the sharpest image here. 'Telephone / The only bridge onto the isle of you / Isle of love' makes the whole relationship feel like a failed call to a remote place. It's a lonely kind of geography.
It turns the whole idea of reaching someone into a fragile, solitary act. There's no answer on the other end of that bridge.
The way 'feeling blue' gets repeated and stretched out at the end, almost dissolving into 'Mmm, feeling blue,' gives the whole thing a worn-out, late-night radio vibe.
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You were the girl
The girl that no-one ever really knew
I was the one
The one I thought you cared about
I thought it was the only love
That ever existed
Maybe I'm only dreaming about you
You never ever really cared
Telephone
The only bridge onto the isle of you
Isle of love
Too late to say I cared for you
I thought it was the only love
That ever existed
Maybe I've got it wrong about you
A never-ending run-around
Now I'm standing on the other side
The other side from you
Why'd you ever go and leave me all alone feeling blue
Now I'm standing on the other side
The other side from you
Why'd you ever go and leave me all alone feeling blue
Alone on the road
The static crackles on my radio
If I could I'd sing a song of love for you
I thought it was the only love that ever existed
Maybe I'm only dreaming about you
You never ever really cared
Now I'm standing on the other side
The other side from you
Why'd you ever go and leave me all alone feeling blue
Now I'm standing on the other side
The other side from you
Why'd you ever go and leave me all alone feeling blue
You were the girl
The girl that no-one ever really knew
I was the one
The one I thought you cared about
I thought it was the only love that ever existed
Maybe I'm only dreaming about you
A never-ending run-around
Now I'm standing on the other side
The other side from you
Why'd you ever go and leave me all alone feeling blue
Now I'm standing on the other side
The other side from you
Why'd you ever go and leave me all alone feeling blue
Feeling blue
Feeling blue
Feeling blue
Standing on the other side
The other side from you
Why'd you ever go and leave me all alone feeling blue
Mmm, feeling blue
Why'd you ever go and leave me all alone feeling blue
Feeling blue
Why'd you ever go and leave me all alone feeling blue
A late-80s Australian pop song about a one-sided love that never quite connected. This isn't a song about a breakup so much as a song about realizing there was never a real connection to begin with. The 'never-ending run-around' feels more exhausting than dramatic.
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