(Somebody...) 

Told her that there was a place like heaven 

Across the water on a 747 

Yeah, we're living in 

In a modern world.



And pretty soon she's really got the notion 

Of flying out across the big blue ocean 

Yeah, we're living in 

In a modern world.



Talk is cheap on satellite 

But all I get is (static!) 

Information, I'm still here 

Re-dial on automatic.



CHORUS: 

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) 

Calling America.



But I'm just talking to a satellite 

Twenty thousand miles up in the sky each night 

Yeah, we're living in 

In a modern world.



All I had to do was pick up the phone 

I'm out in space, trying to talk to someone 

Yeah, we're living in 

In a modern world.



She left a number I could call 

But no one's there, no one at all 

There must be something going wrong 

That number just rings on and on.



REPEAT CHORUS



Said she'd call when she'd been gone a while 

Guess she's missing me across the miles 

Yeah, we're living in 

In a modern world.



REPEAT CHORUS



Calling America, Calling America 

Calling America, Calling America...