Intro {phone call}
"is this f****** thing on? hello? hi, yeah, so i'm finally getting back to you, at long last... and i've been thinking."
(mmmm, shoo-do-ba-ba-ba-da-da-da-da, mmmm, yeah)
"if we were really gonna try again, like, as a 'we'"
(if we)
"then, you really gotta know that it's been a minute since i've done anything, like... 'lovey-dovey'"
(oh, you gotta know, ooh)
"in lieu of a more eloquent term,"
(ella quincy)
"but, i got to be honest,"
(honesty)
"i... don't know you."
('cos i don't know, i don't know, i don't know, ooh)
"not now, not way back when, so you got to understand,"
(you got to)
"that i need a minute. if not to think things through, then just to remember you, yeah? it's been a while, my friend. jesus, the one time you don't wanna pick up the phone. all day long it's ring, ring, ring... yeah."
Verse 1:
So i heard i got you back/
Don't know how i managed that/
Is it really so sublime/
That i'd give you another try/
Well, i seem to want to tell you/
That for two there was exclusivity/
But then what you knew was overdue/
You'd been harboring thoughts of leaving/
Now that you've returned saying that you've changed/
Somehow shedding all your toxic traits/
But the issue running through my mind/
Isn't even if i want you back/
Chorus:
All day long it's ring, ring, ring/
Trying to tell me you've been suffering/
With your incessant redialing/
Don't you know you border trifling/
So now you got me on the phone/
So don't you talk too long/
Saying you're 'tryna be 'sum/
But i won't lead you on/
Verse 2
Ain't my silence loud and clear/
We both know you had a year/
Saying what you sacrificed/
Was a bright light in your life/
But the both of us we know/
That the only thing we've grown/
(oh is just seed) is a distant field of seed/
None of which would make us "we"/
(oh there's just never "we")
There ain't nothing you could tell me/
That would make me feel how i felt before/
And the time that's passed has made it clear/
We will never beach on lover's shore/
Now that we've both changed but we're still the same/
Makes it easier to extrapolate/
That the issue never was just you/
Even less though was it just me/
Chorus:
All day long it's ring, ring, ring/
Trying to tell me you've been suffering/
With your incessant redialing/
Don't you know you border trifling/
So now you got me on the phone/
So don't you talk too long/
Saying you're 'tryna be 'sum/
But i won't lead you on/
(call-back time)
Bridge:
Hyper-extension of/
My lonely heart/
Pretending not to/
Hear you calling out/
To me at all/
If i can't mend then at least i cannot fall
All day long it's ring, ring, ring/
All day long it's ring, ring, ring/
All day long it's ring, ring, ring/
All day long it's ring, ring, ring/
All day long it's ring, ring, ring/
All day long it's ring, ring, ring/
All day long it's ring, ring, ring/
All day long it's ring, ring, ring/
Chorus:
All day long it's ring, ring, ring/ (there's no you and i)
Trying to tell me you've been suffering/
With your incessant redialing/
Don't you know you border trifling/
So now you got me on the phone/
So don't you talk too long/
Saying you're 'tryna be 'sum/
But i won't lead you on/
Post-chorus:
My phone rings twice/
And before i know it, thrice/
It's a relatively iffy thing/
You want back in my life/
All day long it's ring, ring, ring/
Trying to tell me you've been suffering/
With your incessant redialing/
Don't you know you border trifling/
Outro {phone call} :
"so, i start to call back, and i'm steeling to, like, shoot this motherf***er down, and after a few rings all of sudden it's just... straight to voice mail, and i'm like: what the actual f***?!"
(what the f***, what the f***)
"ugh, man, i go out of my way to call you back. i mean, granted i didn't have to go far because you called like 24 times in 3 hours, but still! i mean, this is my time! you don't f***ing deserve this sh*t,"
(where's the money)
(no you don't)
"and you know that too. like, what the actual f***, you trying to play games? i don't have time for this, oh man, i am so..."