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Artist: Stan Ridgway
Canonical path: /ridgway-stan/call-box
Related lyric paths: 6
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Call Box
Read Call Box lyrics by Stan Ridgway on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Call Box
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I press the buttons now
Voice keeps poppin on the call box out
Mop-man, do you receive?
Ten-four, I gotta pull out
I got an eta, five-thirty on the dot
A little bit later, itll thicken the plot
Chorus:
They always tell me whats not is not
I just gotta get that 1-2-3
Its funny how these things always happen to me
I just gotta get that 1-2-3
Now, by the force of circumstance
And by the belt that holds up my pants
Im held responsible
For this idea that never had a chance
When they call out the guard tonight
Hell cut the alarm and switch off the light
Chorus:
I get a funny feeling that wrong is right
I just gotta get that 1-2-3
Its funny how these things always happen to me
I just gotta get that 1-2-3
1 2 3
A b c
Like you and me
Like 1 2 3
1 2 3
1-2-3
A b c
1-2-3
1 2 3
1-2-3
Its a combination...
I press the buttons nowwww!
I press the buttons now
Voice keeps poppin on the call box out
Mop-man, do you receive?
Ten-four, I gotta pull out
I got an eta, five-thirty on the dot
A little bit later, itll thicken the plot
Chorus:
They always tell me whats not is not
I just gotta get that 1-2-3
Its funny how these things always happen to me
I guess I gotta get that 1-2-3
1 2 3
A b c
Like you and me
Like 1 2 3
Not is not, not is not!
Not is not, not is not...
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