Still Taking Calls

The last payphone in a town that paved over its past remembers every breakup, emergency, and confession it carried, and keeps the line open anyway.

[Intro]

[instrumental]

[Verse 1]

They tore the diner down and paved the square Now every pocket glows a pale blue light I'm bolted to the brick, my cord gone gray But I remember every word I heard at night Mascara in the rain, a borrowed coat She said don't come back, and hung me up so hard I rang

[Pre-Chorus]

Nobody needs me now, I know But somebody's got to hold the line

[Chorus]

I'm still taking calls Under the last light left on Main Drop a quarter in and say it, I can hold it all I'm still taking calls

[Verse 2]

A trucker in a whiteout, engine dead Read me every highway sign that he could find A father at three in the morning, shaking Spelled his street out slow for the ambulance line A preacher told me what he never told his wife Then wiped the handset clean and drove into the night

[Pre-Chorus]

Nobody needs me now, I know But somebody's got to hold the line

[Chorus]

I'm still taking calls Under the last light left on Main Drop a quarter in and say it, I can hold it all I'm still taking calls

[Bridge]

Last night, for the first time in years, I rang Out across a street where the whole town sleeps I rang till the bolts in the brick came loose And I finally learned what it is to need

[Final Chorus]

I'm still taking calls Under the last light left on Main Drop a quarter in and say it, I can hold it all I'm still taking calls

[Outro]

I'm still taking calls