Busy? AGAIN!? [Verse 1 – Detached Male Vocal] Got your number after school Written blue across my hand Seven digits staring back at me Like something I don’t understand Walked around my room for hours Picked the telephone up twice Put it down before the dial tone Could make me change my mind [Pre-Chorus – Low Male Harmony] Nine fifteen Nine twenty-two Nine forty-one What the hell am I supposed to do? [Telephone Button Tones] [Everything Stops] [BUSY SIGNAL] Beep… beep… beep… beep… [Chorus – Big Dark New-Wave Hook] BUSY SIGNAL SOMEBODY’S ON YOUR LINE BUSY SIGNAL WHO’S TAKING ALL YOUR TIME? I finally found the nerve I finally made the call Now I’m sitting in the darkness Talking to nothing at all [Mechanical Harmony] Beep-beep Beep-beep BUSY SIGNAL [Verse 2 – Driving Synth Bass] Ten o’clock, I try again Receiver cold against my head Maybe it’s your best friend talking Maybe something that I said Maybe it’s that senior guy With the black Camaro Z Maybe I’m completely losing it [Spoken] …probably. [Industrial Percussion Hit] Dial again Wait again Listen to the ringing— [BUSY SIGNAL] DAMMIT! [Pre-Chorus – Building] Ten fifteen Ten thirty-two Eleven-oh-six How long can anybody fucking talk like this? [Chorus – Bigger] BUSY SIGNAL SOMEBODY’S ON YOUR LINE BUSY SIGNAL WHO’S TAKING ALL YOUR TIME? I finally found the nerve I finally made the call Now I’m sitting in the darkness Talking to nothing at all [Male Harmony] Beep-beep Beep-beep BUSY SIGNAL [Instrumental – Industrial New Wave] [Cold Synth Arpeggio] [Metallic Percussion] [Chorus Guitar] [Busy Signal Synced to Kick Drum] BEEP — CLACK BEEP — CLACK BEEP — CLACK BEEP — CLACK [Bridge – Music Nearly Stops] [Clock Ticking] Midnight. [Telephone Dial Tone] One more time. [Button Tones] [Silence] [Telephone Ring] [Telephone Ring] [Telephone Ring] [Click] [Soft Female Voice Through Telephone] Hello? [Long Pause] [Male] Uh… [Pause] Hi. [Female] Who’s this? [Massive Industrial Hit] [Final Chorus – Maximum Energy] BUSY SIGNAL I WAITED HALF THE NIGHT BUSY SIGNAL NOW I FINALLY GOT THE LINE Had twelve different speeches Now I can’t remember one Spent three hours getting ready— AND FORGOT WHAT I’D DONE! [Male Gang Harmony] BEEP-BEEP! BEEP-BEEP! BUSY SIGNAL! [Outro – Synths Strip Away] [Telephone Voice] Hello? [Male] Yeah… uh… You wanna go out Friday? [Pause] [Female] Sure. [Male] …seriously? [Female] Yeah. [Click] [Dial Tone] [Male, Quietly] Holy shit. [BUSY SIGNAL RETURNS IN RHYTHM] Beep… beep… beep… beep… [Industrial Drum Hit] [Sudden Stop]
