Hello Operator

there are a lot of ways to look at this song but this is how i see it

Okay. The first verse tells me that we are starting from childhood as shown in the reference to that skip rope rhyme, this is the beginigs of a tycoon i think or a man/woman desitned for power and weath because obviously the child is asking money back from a person as they have obviously done a favour to somoneone recently. the oscillatior of course generates power and once that starts up gives the growing person (becoming a man) status. " twist it with a dollar bill" mix power and money. " mail man bring the paper" have people respect you and do what you require of them " leave it on my window sill" you see even though the mail man is bringing you the paper ( doing what u need of him) he is still alienated from you because of your power and weath shown through him leaving it on the window sill and not directly giving him the paper.

the second verse tells us that the wealth and stress of his obligations has lead to his death and that because he alienated himself not many people are too affected by his death " my coffin doesnt have a phone". the next few lines tell me that before his death he was in debt and that he has no heir to worry about such things " nobody to answer the phone"

the song is about the over whealming effect of power and money on people.

thats just my idea on it anyway

Isaac Brock's 3rd favorite track of the decade (De Stijl being his 16th favorite album of the decade).

I'm fairy certain that the awesome opening guitar riff (which also appears again later) is taken from Freddie King's 'The Stumble', which appears twice throughout that song as well and sounds basically the same.

ah, i love this song..it's so wonderfully different and it makes me feel frisky.

do you remember that song from elementary school that we would sing while jumping rope? There was a part that went "Hello operator, please give me number 9 and if you disconnect me I will chop off your bees are in the courtyard....."

no no it went "ms mary had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell toot toot the steamboat went to heaven, ms mary went to hello operator, please give me number nine, and if you disconnect me, i'll kick your behind the refridgerator there was a piece of glass, ms mary sat upon it, and broke her little ask me no more questions, tell me no more lies, the boys are in the bathroom, zipping up their flies are in the field" uhh... the birds are in the meadow? i don't remember, heh. but yeah. at least, that's the one i knew. i don't know how i remembered that much..

hmm thats the one i knew too! and i love the guitar in this song! Especially the first part... ~~Sigh~~

does anyone know what the name of that song not blonde is talking about?

no no no.... it's ms. suzy, and it's a hand game chant thingy... :D

"ms. suzy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a horn toot toot ms. suzy went to heavan and the steamboa went to hello oerator, please give me number 9, and if you disconnect mei will chop off your behind the frigerator, there was a piece of glass, ms. suzy sat upon it and she cut herlittle assk me no more questions, please tell me no more lies, the boys are in the bathroom, zipping up their flie are in the city, the bees are in the dark, ms. suzy and her boyfriend are kissing in the D-A-R-K, D-A-R-K dark dark dark.

the dark is at the movies, the movie's like a show, a show is on a tv set and that is all i know.

i know i know my paaa. i know i know my maaa. i know i know my sister wit the 40acre bra.

i know my paaa i king kong, i know my maaa is queen kong, i know my sistes the stupid one who made me sing this song!"

all of you got the miss suzy thing wrong. but i dont care enough to have to write the correct version.