It’s Just A Payphone

An old familiar

Voice on the line

Static obscuring the

Nuances of conversation

But it’s nice to know you

Are living

Feeling alive

It’s hard to tell these days

You hang up first

I stay on a moment

Listen to the dial tone

The little click when I set

The receiver down is so final

End of call

Go away now

It’s just a payphone

I’m on the road again

You stay secluded in your

Mountaintop home

When I turn the radio on

The static crackles like our

Long-distance call

Some 70s song

Sweet-heart-come-back ballad

As I drive on

Further and further from you

It sings of our separation

What love must be 

Across countries and oceans

What love must be so

Far

Away