The Captain Beefheart - Telephone lyrics

Paper and wire killed my brother and my sister too

And if you don't watch out

You know they're going to get you too

And if I don't watch out

You know they're going to get me too

Telephone

Telephone

Telephone

Telephone

Well I strangled the cord

Ripped it off of the phone

And I saw the bone

And I saw the twinkling lights

It must have been rats [?? is this right? - any ideas?]

'Cause it sure was a drone

It sure was a drag

Paper and wire killed my brother and my sister too

And if you don't watch out

You know they're going to get you

And if I don't watch out

You know they're going to get me too

Telephone

Telephone

Telephone

And I strangled

And I ripped the cord

And I saw the bone

And I heard these tweetin' things

N twinkling lights

N there was nobody home

Where are all those nerve endings coming out of the bone?

Telephone

Telephone

Well I ripped the cord right out of the phone

And I saw the bone

Dammed gleaming white bone

Telephone

Paper and wire killed my brother and my sister too

And if you don't watch out

You know they're going to get you

And if I don't watch out

You know they're going to get me too

Telephone

Telephone

And I can't get away

And I can't get away

It's like a grey adder at the end of the hall

It's like a plastic horned devil