More songs by Oliver Sim
Description
Love over the phone is like an old game where someone always hangs up first. Calls come not when you need them, but when you're bored, and the voice on the other end sounds so fake that you almost believe it. “It's just a game,” your mind whispers, but your fingers still reach for the green button.
In these conversations, there is no truth, no farewells, only flirtation, habit, and a slight tingling sensation at your fingertips. Everything goes round and round: pick up, put down, get confused by your own signals. And yet every new beep is like a sweet temptation to re-enter that very connection from which it seems long past time to disconnect.
Lyrics and translation
Original
Ring, ring.
You just called to let me know you're lonely.
The right thing, if only I let it be.
Nightly,
I'm home alone to make you happy.
A silly me waiting down the line.
A telephone is not a toy, you pick me up and put me down.
You're the last number that should be calling.
That ringing is the sweetest sound.
It's just a game you play at a quarter past too late.
These telephone games you play when you're alone.
Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring.
Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring.
Hello system operator.
Can you check up on your side?
Bad connection, call me later.
I'll be ready.
Dial three if you're sad, alone, and feeling horny.
Tweet, tweet, the songbird sings at night.
A telephone is not a toy, you pick me up and put me down.
You're the last number that should be calling.
That ringing is the sweetest sound.
It's just a game you play at a quarter past too late.
These telephone games you play when you're alone.
Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring. Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring.
Pick up and down, turn me around, 'round, 'round. Pick up and down, let me down.
Pick up and down, turn me around, 'round, 'round. Pick up and down, let me down.
Pick up and down, turn me around, 'round, 'round. Pick up and down, let me down.
Pick up and down, turn me around, 'round, 'round.
Pick up and down, let me down