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Payphone/Telephone

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Payphone/Telephone

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Hello, hello, baby, you called?

I can't hear a thing

Cause I have got no service

In the club, you say? Say?

Wha-wha-what did you say, huh?

You're breakin' up on me

Sorry I cannot hear you

I'm kinda busy

(I'm at a payphone, trying to call home

All of my change I spent on you

Where have the times gone

Baby it's all wrong

Where are the plans we made for two?)

I know it' hard to remember,

The people we used to be...

Even harder to picture,

That you're not here next to me.

You ssay it's too late to make it,

But is it too late to try?

And in our time that you wasted

All of our bridges burned down

I've wasted my nights,

You turned out the lights

(Stop telephonin' me)

Now I'm paralyzed,

Still stuck in the time,

(I'm buzy)

When we called it love

(Stop telephonin' me)

But even the sun sets in paradise

I'm at a payphone, trying to call home

All of my change I spent on you

Where have the times gone

Baby it's all wrong

Where are the plans we made for two?

(Stop callin', stop callin'

I don't wanna think anymore

I left my head and my heart on the dancefloor

Stop callin', stop callin'

I don't wanna talk anymore

I left my head and my heart on the dancefloor)

If "Happy Ever After" did exist,

I would still be holding you like this

But All those fairy tales are full of it

Another stupid love song, I'll be sick

(Call all you want, but there's no one home

And you're not gonna reach my telephone

Out in the club, and I'm sipping that bubb

And you're not gonna reach my telephone

Call all you want, but there's no one home

And you're not gonna reach my telephone

Out in the club, and I'm sipping that bubb

And you're not gonna reach my telephone)

You turned your back on tomorrow

Cause you forgot yesterday

I gave you my love to borrow

But you just gave it away

You can't expect me to be fine

I don't expect you to care

I know I've said it before

But all of our bridges burnt down

I've wasted my nights

You turned out the lights

(Stop telephonin' me)

Now I'm paralyzed,

Still stuck in the time,

(I'm buzy)

When we called it love

(Stop telephonin' me)

But even the sun sets in paradise

I'm at a payphone, trying to call home

All of my change I spent on you

Where have the times gone

Baby it's all wrong

Where are the plans we made for two?

(Stop callin', stop callin'

I don't wanna think anymore

I left my head and my heart on the dancefloor

Stop callin', stop callin'

I don't wanna talk anymore

I left my head and my heart on the dancefloor)

If "Happy Ever After" did exist,

I would still be holding you like this

But All those fairy tales are full of it

Another stupid love song, I'll be sick

(Call all you want, but there's no one home

And you're not gonna reach my telephone

Out in the club, and I'm sipping that bubb

And you're not gonna reach my telephone

Call all you want, but there's no one home

And you're not gonna reach my telephone

Out in the club, and I'm sipping that bubb

And you're not gonna reach my telephone)

It's not that I don't like you

I'm just at a party

And I am sick and tired of my phone r-ringing

Sometimes I feel like I live in Grand Central Station

Tonight I'm not taking no calls

'Cause I'll be dancin'

Dancin'

Hey, I just met you

And this is crazy

(Tonight I'm not taking no calls 'cause I'll be dancing)

But here's my number

So call me, maybe

It's hard to look right

(Stop telephonin' me, stop telephonin' me)

At you baby

But here's my number

If "Happy Ever After" did exist,

I would still be holding you like this

But All those fairy tales are full of it

Another stupid love song, I'll be sick

(Before you came into my life

I missed you so bad

Before you came into my life

I missed you so so bad

And you're not gonna reach my telephone)

I'm at a payphone, trying to call home

All of my change I spent on you

Where have the times gone

Baby it's all wrong

Where are the plans we made for two?

I left my head and my heart on the dancefloor

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