Telephone Directory

Verse 1

Slammed the payphone down on yesterday

Everybody's got a number I erased

I flip the pages white and thin

Looking for a face that I could ring

Dial tone hums a lonely sound

Half the names don't live here now

Pre-Chorus

Fingers walk the columns slow

So many strangers I used to know

Chorus

Telephone directory

Tell me who I used to be

Telephone directory

A thousand names and none for me

(Yeah yeah)

(None for me)

Verse 2

Bent the corner back in ninety-nine

Wrote her name in ballpoint line

Whole town shrinks to one thin book

I call a house that never shook again

Pre-Chorus

I thumb through ghosts in black and white

Every listing someone's life

Chorus

Telephone directory

Tell me who I used to be

Telephone directory

A thousand names and none for me

(Yeah yeah)

(None for me)

Breakdown

Pages tear pages burn pages go

Everybody's number I let go

Yeah I let go

Chorus

Telephone directory

Tell me who I used to be

Telephone directory

A thousand names and none for me

(Yeah yeah)

(None for me)

Outro

(Who I used to be)

(None for me)