| Kraftwerk – The Telephone Call Lyrics | 6 months ago |
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The authors of some of the other comments might consider what I'm about to present as a meaning that should be “left to subjective interpretation”. But I think the interpretation is pretty consistent and I like it. So, perhaps this song tells the story of a break-up in love. The narrator lives with someone who is no longer in love with him. The woman (let's assume the narrator is in love with a woman) is “so close” as they live in the same apartment or house; but at the same time “far away” because he feels the love affair is ending and she's emotionally drifting away from him. He “calls her up”, as he tries to have closer emotional contact with her; “all night and day”, as they live in the same place. The “telephone line” is merely a metaphor for the feeling of love, through which he "tries to get a connection”. Finally, after the break-up, he calls her “from time to time”, that is, from one era to the next; in other words, he calls her through his memory; only to hear her voice, not to have a conversation, since she's no longer there to speak with him. There was a time when the narrator had succeeded in making her fall in love with him, in “reaching” “the number”; but now, with the break-up consummated, the number “has been disconnected”. |
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