Calling America

Electric Light Orchestra

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 redial on automatic.

R: 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)

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.

R: 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.

R: Calling America...