Calling America Lyrics - Essential Electric Light Orchestra - E.l.o.

(Somebody) 

Told her that there was a place like heaven 

Across the water on a 747 

Yeah, we're living in 

In a modern world 

And pretty soon she's really got the notion 

Of flying out across the big blue ocean 

Yeah, we're living in 

In a modern world 

(In a modern world) 

Talk is cheap on satellite 

But all I get is 

(Static) 

Information, I'm still here 

Re-dial on automatic 

Calling America 

(Can't get a message through) 

Calling America 

(That's what she said to do) 

Calling America 

(That's where she has to be) 

Calling America 

(She left a number for me) 

Calling America 

But I'm just talking to a satellite 

Twenty thousand miles up in the sky each night 

Yeah, we're living in 

In a modern world 

All I had to do was pick up the phone 

I'm out in space, trying to talk to someone 

Yeah, we're living in 

In a modern world 

(In a modern world) 

She left a number I could call 

But no one's there, no one at all 

There must be something going wrong 

That number just rings on and on 

Calling America 

(Can't get a message through) 

Calling America 

(That's what she said to do) 

Calling America 

(That's where she has to be) 

Calling America 

(She left a number for me) 

Calling America 

Said she'd call when she'd been gone a while 

Guess she's missing me across the miles 

Yeah, we're living in 

In a modern world 

Calling America 

(Can't get a message through) 

Calling America 

(That's what she said to do) 

Calling America 

(That's where she has to be) 

Calling America 

(She left a number for me) 

Calling America 

Calling America 

Calling America 

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