I miss talking to my best friends on the landline telephone
I miss getting voicemails saying, "call me back when you get home"

A big box TV weighing 300 pounds sitting on the basement floor
A kid watched his dream on a screen and he found that TV didn't even work no more
It was just a reflection of him and his friends playing metalcore
They all had good intentions but then guess life happened
Now they don't even talk no more

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I remember them days you called at 11

I miss talking to my best friends on the landline telephone
I miss getting voicemails saying, "call me back when you get home"
Those days were the best ones of my life, I know
I wish we didn't cut our ties like the wire from the landline telephone
La, la, la, la, la
Landline telephone

Four scrawny teens playing in libraries
The nuns said his hair was too long
Then they graduated to bowling alleys
No one was there to headbang to his songs
Now some people are listening
He's there reminiscing when it was just for fun
He's obsessing over streams when he should be in the streets with his friends hanging flyers up

Stayed up all night off Mountain Dew
When we had our last one, we never even knew

I miss talking to my best friends on the landline telephone
I miss getting voicemails saying, "call me back when you get home"
Those days were the best ones of my life, I know
I wish we didn't cut our ties like the wire from the landline telephone
La, la, la, la, la
Landline telephone

I hate this aluminum computer in my pocket with access to everything
Friends online, but it's like I never even knew you
I'd delete every app to hear that old ring

We just watch from a distance now
We used to share dreams over landlines
But now I don't even know how your voice sounds
I hope it takes you back when you hear mine

I miss talking to my best friends on the landline telephone
I miss getting voicemails saying, "call me back when you get home"
Those days were the best ones of my life, I know
I wish we didn't cut our ties like the wire from the landline telephone
La, la, la, la, la
Landline telephone

We just watch from a distance now
We used to share dreams over landlines
But now I don't even know how your voice sounds
I hope it takes you back when you hear mine