Calling America Lyrics

(Jeff Lynne)

Somebody told her that there was a place like heaven 
Across the water on a 747 
Yeah, we're living in 
In a modern world.

And pretty soon she's really got the notion 
Of flying out across the big blue ocean 
Yeah, we're living in 
In a modern world.

Talk is cheap on satellite 
But all I get is -static- Information, 
I'm still here Re-dial on automatic.

Calling America (can't get a message through) 
Calling America (that's what she said to do)
Calling America (that's where she has to be)
Calling America (she left a number for me) 
Calling America.

But I'm just talking to a satellite 
Twenty thousand miles up in the sky each night
Yeah, we're living in 
In a modern world.

All I had to do was pick up the phone
I'm out in space, trying to talk to someone 
Yeah, we're living in 
In a modern world.

She left a number I could call 
But no one's there, no one at all 
There must be something going wrong 
That number just rings on and on.

Calling America (can't get a message through) 
Calling America (that's what she said to do)
Calling America (that's where she has to be)
Calling America (she left a number for me) 
Calling America.

Said she'd call when she'd been gone a while 
Guess she's missing me across the miles 
Yeah, we're living in
In a modern world.

Calling America (can't get a message through) 
Calling America (that's what she said to do)
Calling America (that's where she has to be)
Calling America (she left a number for me) 
Calling America.