It's The Phone
This is a great little song about cell phones. Each verse uses a different classical music melody that is used for cell phone ringers.
I saw her perform it for the second time. She had performed it the night before, and had just written a new verse for it. In fact, I visited her in her dressing room as she was working it out.
Lyrics
- It's the Phone
- Words And Music By
- Cheryl Wheeler
- It's the phone, get the phone, there's a phone call
- Fish it out, press the talk button right now
- Anytime, anywhere there's a phone call
- We will answer and start talking real loud
- In their odes to Joy and Jesus, do you think they once foresaw
- their pieces in our wireless devices
- All across the planet? Blah blah, blah blah, blah…
- Ah the strains of music all around
- Short little beeps cut through the din
- I've come to love that Motorola sound
- Not harpsichord or violin
- I know Ludwig would be so proud
- That "Fur Elise" could beep so loud
- Rossini too and Brahms and Bach
- And Mozart and Rachmaninoff inoff, enough
- Hold the fries- keep your eyes on the road somehow
- Pretty awkward to talk on the phone right now
- To the whims if the Cell Tower Gods I bow
- And I hope the local laws allow
- It's so crowded, you're so loud it's some deaf guy you're talking to
- All of us on this Hertz bus attempt to turn our backs to you
- You're impinging, see us cringing, dirty looks aimed at your head
- Not proud of it but I admit I wish your battery was dead
- (P) December 3, 2001
- Penrod And Higgins Music / Amachrist Music
- ACF Music Group
- International Copyright Reserved
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Recordings
The song It's the Phone appears on the following 3 albums:
- Defying Gravity
- by Wheeler, Cheryl
- Evening Star Compilation, Vol. 1
- by Various
- No Previous Record
- by Wheeler, Cheryl
