To me the key to understanding this song is to realize that Stephanie is not a person. Stephanie is the automatic voice operator for the state of Alaska, who has reached consciousness.
She hates the people she spends her whole life answering on the phone because she can’t be a part of their world. All she can do is ask “what country shall I say is calling from across the world”.
She’s not afraid to die because she’s not really alive. The entire thing is in her “mind”.
She is the door to the connections, but she can’t figure out why she can never leave the room. She wants to leave her electronic boxed in existence and be in the world, but she can’t. She’s so cold because even though she talks to people all day long she can never connect with them in any meaningful way, and it leaves her icy and cold hating all the people who can live in the real world.
To me the key to understanding this song is to realize that Stephanie is not a person. Stephanie is the automatic voice operator for the state of Alaska, who has reached consciousness. She hates the people she spends her whole life answering on the phone because she can’t be a part of their world. All she can do is ask “what country shall I say is calling from across the world”. She’s not afraid to die because she’s not really alive. The entire thing is in her “mind”. She is the door to the connections, but she can’t figure out why she can never leave the room. She wants to leave her electronic boxed in existence and be in the world, but she can’t. She’s so cold because even though she talks to people all day long she can never connect with them in any meaningful way, and it leaves her icy and cold hating all the people who can live in the real world.