I won't take the easy road Show me my silver lining, I try to keep on keeping on I hear a voice calling calling Calling Calling out for me These shackles I've made in an attempt to be free Be it for reason, be it for love Show me my silver lining The easy road, the easy

I've got new rules, I count 'em I've gotta tell them to myself You ain't getting over him One, don't pick up the phone You know he's he's only calling calling 'cause he's he's drunk and alone Two, don't let him in Three, don't be his friend You know you're gonna wake up

The secret messages are calling calling to me endlessly They call to me across the air The messages across the atmosphere They whisper in your ear, they're calling calling everywhere A moving stream of information That is floating on the wind The secrets never end And

Oh don't leave me on my own Left me standing all alone Cut me down to size so I can fit inside Lies that will divide us both in time Don't leave me on my own I'm so tired of being alone These penitent walls are all I've known Songbird calling calling across the

These catties they be calling calling off my phone I put corn in for my bro They try to send for me Envy and jealousy is everything I wish upon my enemies All that for them, right back at them What my mind keeps telling me Mind keeps telling me I hear

I won't ever be your cornerstone. Watch her run, can you feel it? I don't want to be here holding on. A single book of matches gonna burn what's standing in the way. Roaring down the mountain, they're calling calling on the fire brigade. Carry out the pictures

Oh I hear you calling calling in the dead of night We'll be talking And I hear you calling calling in the dead of night Oh I feel overjoyed When you listen to my words Words are all we have These words are all we have I see them sinking in

Calling America Yeah, we're living in In a modern world Calling Calling America (can't get a message through) Calling America (that's what she said to do) Calling America (that's where she has to be) Calling America (she left a number for me) Somebody told her

I won't take the easy road Show me my silver lining, I try to keep on keeping on I hear a voice calling calling Calling Calling out for me These shackles I've made in an attempt to be free Be it for reason, be it for love Show me my silver lining The easy road, the easy

She'll never walk away (I don't think you understand) In the night she hears him calling calling In the night she's dancing to relieve the pain In the night when she comes crawling Dollar bills and tears keep falling down her face But I don't mind, I don't mind