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i havent had a telephone in ten years, but before that i used the phone a lot and had several address books filled with numbers. but today i cannot recall a single telephone number, not mine nor any of the people i used to call. The only number that sticks with me is the number for time. and i might even have reversed the 8 and the 9 on that one. i was thinking about this and it brought to mind the hundreds of times my mother had called me.and how i rarely paid attention to what she had to say. sometimes i even set the receiver down, and picked it up every few minutes just to say yeah yeah yeah so she would think i was listening. you know what im getting at and the idea for this song is not an original one. when we lose our parents , most of us feel regret that we hadnt listened to them more. talked to them more. generally or just paid more attention to them. i cant remember her number, although i dialed it hundreds of times. and even if i knew the number, she wouldnt be there to answer. but time is always there, and time always answers your call.

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me and my mom had the same disease
i couldnt come to see her
and she couldnt come to see me
everything that rocks
has its foundation in the blues
and if you saw mama kissing santa claus
you might have an oedipal complex too

TI5 8900
thats the only number i remember
TI4 8900
times the only number i want to call


mama used to call me on the phone
shed talk and talk and talk
and i wish i would have listened when she called
beause she aint gonna call me today
and id give the world for her number
but its too late
she doesnt have a number anyway

TI5 8900
thats the only number i remember
TI4 8900
times the only number i want to call

i never should have tried
to cast her demons out
because i never really knew
wha the devil was all about
until he laid his eggs
deep inside her brain
and the doctors had to saw off the top of her sku;;
trying to release the pain

TI5 8900
thats the only number i remember
TI4 8900
times the only number i want to call

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from The Dark Room Act 1- Frailty, track released July 6, 2021
written and performed by bill white

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