Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Charlotte Gainsbourg
Canonical path: /gainsbourg-charlotte/white-telephone
Related lyric paths: 6
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White Telephone
Read White Telephone lyrics by Charlotte Gainsbourg on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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White Telephone
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White telephone
Pick up the receiver
Wait for the tone
Wait for the tone
It's droning
There's no one on the line
It's droning
There's no one on the line
The rotary
Finger into the hole
Pull back, let go
Pull back, let go
It's ringing
No one answering
It's ringing
There's no one answering
All our words go into the wire
Just like a ghost
Just like a ghost
It's fleeting like light from a room
Into darkness from an empty room
I'm fleeting like light in a room
Into darkness crawling after you
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Who performs "White Telephone"?
Charlotte Gainsbourg performs "White Telephone", and this lyric page sits inside the Charlotte Gainsbourg catalog on LyroVerse.
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