do you need to call me daily
	do you have reasons for calling at all

	is something on your mind
	is something wrong---i get the feeling
	that you're laughing at my quiet surprise

	my silhouette is changing
	as i'm aging by your window
	and i focus on a light by your face

	call me 'the operator'
	making comments "he's so technical"
	or "i've absolutely nothing to do"

	recycle all my photographs
	i'll leave a picture of the queen
	and no one has to know i was there

	me, i'm so ashamed
	you're all connected to my number
	and the conversation's only polite

	i'll wear my old grey raincoat
	just in case you're 'confidential'
	make up stories like "the screen fades away"

	today it's in a taxi
	by the station, and it's raining
	and i wonder how they all made it before


 Gary Numan, "Do You Need The Service?", B-side of "Down In The Park" (1979