Dial 1-606-843-3323 and this number is out of service...or maybe not. Maybe whoever you are trying to reach is unable to answer the phone in their realm.
This song is about those phone calls that you get where you answer and seemingly no one is there. No one says a thing and you can't hear anything but a little interference.
My theory on this that there really is someone trying to get through to you, but does not have the correct resources to do so.
You cannot hear them because they are the dead, screaming out for someone to hear so they can save them, but obviously the living cannot save the dead due to the circumstances of living soul vs. spirit soul.
lyrics
Stranded on the wrongside of the phone line
Caller I.D. reads unknown
No answer
A seldom static rings and lingers
Triggered signals lost
Dying to cut through the silence
(and what they're saying is)
"When can we come home?"
(1-606-843-3323)
Surrounded by halfways
I feel so alone
Stuck at the precipice of this realm
I want your love
I need your love
Stranded on the wrongside of time
Waiting for the moment to be right
Stranded on the wrongside of time
Desperate
For someone to bring me back to life
credits
from No Zeros,
released December 16, 2012
Backing vocals by Susan Corcoran
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