Mr. Telephone man
There's something wrong with my line
When I dial my baby's number
I get a click every time
Mr. Telephone man, is dead and that's a fact
And with with him, we lost an art
And he’s the lost artifact
Hung but not hung up
Because his tech couldn’t keep up
Replaced by texts, and tweets,
And IG stories and Tik tok dances to the trending beat
We have lost the art of conversation
Replaced by likes of fake admiration
The need for approval of our online “friends”
But what’s the point? Where’s it end?
We have social media without being social
Online connections without actually connecting
We’ve lost the part where we connect to the person
As if actually hearing a human voice causes overexertion
“Don’t call, if you can text,” is the meme that comes to mind
And without hearing your voice, our communication starts to decline
Ya see, you can’t hear sarcasm in the written word,
And the line between the written emotions starts to get blurred
I can’t hear the sadness or frustration in your voice
I can’t hear your boredom or the passionate rejoice
They say “oh, We have Emojis!”and a smiley or two is all good
But we send out hearts and hugs when we’re really in the totally opposite moods
And we can L O L without even cracking a smile
Use the devil and the hot hed when we want to be hostile
Then there’s winks and side eyes, and the horny guy with his tongue hanging
And we use peaches, water drops, and egg plants to indicate sex banging
There's the food, and the animals. And the palms to throw shade
And with all those emojis your point still may not have been made.
Don’t get me wrong, those silly faces are cool
But if you think they are better than a voice, i think you a fool
To believe that what you meant is what they heard in their head
Because the voice you sent it in, may not be the voice they read
Innocent statements misperceived as a shade
People in they feelings over assumptions they made
All could have been avoided had they heard your tone
Had they been able to listen, had you just picked up the phone
Text over talk, is the society we now live in
The loss of conversation is just where it begins
The human connection is what’s really at stake
Sleeping through life as if they’re awake
Missing the times when people actually interacted
When the voice tone & facial expression actually impacted
The way we perceived he words that that were said
And not just the voice we heard in our head.
Mr. Telephone man
There's something wrong with my line
When I dial my baby's number
I get a TEXT every time
