The Girl On The Phone

Album: Setting Sons (1979)
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  • Girl on the phone keeps a-ringing back
    Her voice is smooth but the tone is bland
    She's telling me this and she's telling me that
    She talks about me and I must agree
    With what she says about me
    About how nice I can be
    But it makes no difference to my mind

    Girl on the phone keeps a-ringing back
    She knows all my details she's got my facts
    She tells me my height and she knows my weight
    She knows my age and says she's knows fate

    And I must say its logical
    What foresight she must have
    I've got to meet her whenever I get time

    Says she knows everything about me
    Every word I've ever said
    Every book I've ever read
    She told me that we met along time ago
    I can't think when but she should know

    Girl on the phone keeps a-ringing back
    Knows where I get my shirts and where I get my pants
    Where I get my trousers where I get socks
    My leg measurements and the size of my cock

    And I must say its un-nerving
    To think that she knows me
    Knows me so well better than anyone
    Better than myself

    Says she knows everything about me
    Every record I've listened to
    Every window that I've looked through
    She told me that we met along time ago
    I can't think when but she should know

    Girl on the phone keeps a-ringing back
    She's telling me this and she's telling me that Writer/s: PAUL JOHN WELLER
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 1

  • Sanfrandan from San Francisco, CaIn the 1980s, a woman who said her name was Miranda Grosvenor called a long list of famous men, engaging them in long conversations but never meeting them in person. Billy Joel was one who would engage, even leaving songs on her answering machine. "She gave good phone," he told Vanity Fair. I always thought this song was about her, even though I've never seen anything tying her to Paul Weller. I will say: I can't find evidence of a Lichtenstein painting with that title (although there is one of a woman on the phone, called "Ohhh...Alright..." because that's what she's saying in the painting). Weller saying he just dashed it off must be covering up the true story. I think it's Miranda. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_Grosvenor
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