Stan Ridgway - Calling out to carol lyrics

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Calling out to Carol

She could really twist the screws

What'cha doin' Monday

And are you back on the booze?

Now, I've been dooin' some thinkin'

About Colorado Springs

A dirty denim jacket

And a seven-dollar ring

Well, I've been keepin' busy

I've got lots of pots boiling on the stove

Who's that in the background

I'm sorry that I asked––I guess I should have known

Chorus:

Callin' out to Carol on the telephone call

Message on a wire comin' through a wall

Talk about old times but not too long ago

Carol was the girl that everybody got to know

When'd you change your number? Hey, Carol!

It's different than you had

Have you got protection?

I know some police are bad

But that's not why I called you up, now

You know I quit that scene

I told ya 'bout your pictures

I guess I'll buy that magazine

And I still remember

All those days we spent alone

You went one way while I went the other

Sometimes, I guess, that's the way things go

Chorus:

Callin' out to Carol on a telephone call

Message on a wire comin' through a wall

Talk about old times but not too long ago

Carol was the girl that everybody got to know

Callin' out to Carol gets a busy tone

Sees a lot of people but she lives alone

Pick up the reciever––love will come and go

But Carol was the girl that everybody got to know

When they called me in the morning

And told me that she'd gone

I didn't want to hear it

So I just hung up the phone

Chorus:

Callin' out––Callin' out to Carol

Callin' out––Callin' out to Carol

Callin' out––Callin' out to Carol

Callin' out to Carol

Callin' out to Carol on a telephone call

Message on a wire comin' through a wall

Is this line in service––operator says no

But Carol was a girl that everybody got to know