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Jet Set Boy

Electrocute

Troublesome Bubblegum

2005

you're playing games puppy, don't try to deny it

Call you on the phone but it was disconnected
Switchboard operator got the lowest common dominator

And the rest are dimming fast
And the plugs are disconnecting
From the sockets in the wall
And the switchboard operator
Simply gives up and goes home
As the dirt

Woke up in the morning
fell out of bed
recall me what I'm dreaming
makes me sad
my face looks like a switchboard
operator takes my hand
he turns it

Nothin' Slowing Me Down

Russ Tolman

Totem Poles & Glory Holes

1986

Switchboard Susan won't you give me a line
I need a doctor get me 999
The first time I picked up my telephone
I fell in love with your ringing

Say It Ain't So Joe

Gary Brooker

No More Fear of Flying

1979

operator 

Now when I look at you girl I get an extension 
And I don't mean on Alexander Graham Bell's invention 
Switchboard Susan can we be friends

answering

The hallway water cooler cool talk weekend
To switchboard busy signal operator beepin
Everybody's on their landlines
Everybody's on their landlines

play my song 
Hope he can dance
I wanna move
Dial 411 tryna find some fun

the switchboard
switched off
lines got crossed
now the signal's busy
we can't

All Night Operator

Bryan Ferry

In Your Mind

1977

A handful of empty sighs
All night operator

Reader between the lies
With half the world dreamin'
I see through your eyes
A switchboard breathin'

Plastic Bag

X-Ray Spex

Live at the Roxy

1991

hygienic Weetabix
To dry my tears

My mind is like a switchboard
With crossed and tangled lines
Contented with confusion
That is plugged into my head

a switchboard
With crossed and tangled lines
Contented with confusion
That is plugged into my head
I don't know what's going on
It's the operators job, not mine
I

I'll never call you back
Switchboards done and closed for the evening I told you that

Ain't no operator in the city gonna connect you to me
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