Phone Home

Phone Home
By James Pullen

Lyrics
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[spoken word]
This is Pullenboy Music
yeah man

**[Verse 1]**
I been gone so long, my shadow don’t know my name
Mama’s voice on the line, cracklin’ like a rusted chain
ET done left the porch light burnin’, but the bulb done blowed
I’m out here in the cotton dark, dialin’ up the motherload

“oh oh, yeah yeah yeah, Lord, I’m need to phone home…”*

**[Chorus]**
Phone home… but the signal’s dead in the pines
Phone home… got a pocket full of dimes
Phone home… but the stars don’t answer back
I’m a Martian in Georgia, wearin’ midnight black

**[Verse 2]**
Sheriff took my spaceship keys, said “Boy, you grounded now”
Locked me in a cell with the ghosts of every broken vow
I told ‘em I’m from Planet Pain, population: just me
They laughed and chained my ankles to a magnolia tree

**[Chorus]**
Phone home… but the operator’s a ghost
Phone home… she said “Honey, you overdosed”
Phone home… on a prayer and a busted line
I’m three states from redemption, runnin’ out of time

**[Bridge]**
Yeah… I seen the pyramids in the rearview,
turnin’ to dust behind a Greyhound.
I got alien blood in my veins,
but it bleed red like yours when the bottle’s around.

**[Verse 3]**
If I make it back to the mothership, gonna burn this whole map
Trade my crown of thorns for a Styrofoam cup and a trap
But tonight I’m just a bluesman, pickin’ scars for strings
Singin’ to the moon like she can see my wings

**[Chorus]**
Phone home… but home don’t pick up no more
Phone home… left my soul on the liquor store floor
Phone home… one last static plea
If you hear this, little green men—
come carry me

**[Outro]**
*Wooo-ooo… phone home…*
*Wooo-ooo… I’m comin’ home…*
*(line goes dead)*