Band: The Overlook Hotel -- DV: Guitars, Lead Vocals; Mike Maneth: Guitars, Vocals; Gordon Weakliem: Bass; Steve Creel: Drums
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Story behind the song
Back in the days before cell phones (no, kids, cell phones have not ALWAYS been around), I used to use pay phones on a pretty regular basis. Sometime in the mid-eighties I read an article in the Houston Chronicle about a woman named Terri-Ann Saxx who recorded all those messages I would hear ("Please-deposit-twenty-five-cents," etc.). I started thinking, wouldn't it be funny if a guy got so infatuated with the sound of her voice he fell in love with her and decided to track her down. That's what this song is about. And no, it's not autobiographical.
Recorded in room P-100 ("The Big Room") at Musician's Institute, this is a "sound board recording," done with a cassette deck plugged into a line out from the Front of House mixing board, so the mix is a little lopsided. It was also the first time the board operator had heard the song, so there are some pretty wild variation in levels as he tried to second-guess what we were doing.
Lyrics
Terri
Put my money in a pay telephone this morning
Mechanical voice telling me what to do
I said I dona??t care what goes on between us
All I know is Ia??ve gotta get back to you
Hey little girl on the telephone
Dona??t you need someone like me?
You know I just cana??t see no other way
Hey little girl are you all alone
Could ya use some company?
Terri I just cana??t wait another day
Never before had a similar situation
But never before has there been someone like you
And now here I am, dialing your number long distance
And there you are
Breakina?? my heart in two
Never
Had the time
Never
Walked the line
Then you came into my life
You came
To my life
You draw the line
