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Maroon 5 – Payphone Lyrics 13 years ago
I agree with Planetearth and Defeeds,

To add to their interpretations, I believe the reason Levine chose a payphone rather than a cellphone or even any kind of phone, home phone, is because he is describing how lost he is now that he is apart from his ex-girlfriend.

After their break-up, he lost all his routine familiarties, and is now stranded in a big city, or better yet, deserted. He doesn't feel he belongs anywhere else but with her, she is "home". Therefore, he uses a payphone.

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