I Will Call You

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paint it black wrote: ↑07 Dec 2022, 09:20 What do you think?

Still think it's about Musk, Tesla and Spaceforce X. With a bit of AI thrown in for good measure
That's an intriguing take actually, the rocketship line I suppose is the key one.

Google just informed me that the recently-released "Tesla Semi" is promoted on the basis of its anti-jackknife technology...
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me, previously wrote: ...
Verse 1
We're at an intersection
We're on [our/the] way
There's a road out there
All guns, all day
Line 3 changes the most I think: occasionally it's "there's a road ahead", and earlier versions used something like "there's a road outside" instead.

Verse 2
It's all about the jacknife
I don't remember [my/your] name
Truck stop, don't stop
[I/you] won't remember the shame
I'm quite certain that this is correct (Roundhouse 3 might be the clearest evidence), and thematically it certainly fits. I think "jacknife" refers to the truck crash, not the bladed weapon. There's a lot of overlap with these new songs, by design I should imagine. We've got a "carambolage" over in Don't Drive On Ice, and we've got a "jacknife" here. It's all highways and crashes and roads and vehicles and driving. He often flips the first and second person pronouns in this verse.

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Chorus
I will call you a rocket ship
I will call you from afar
There's a room [in/on] a room out there
I will call you a car
...

The first night of the Roundhouse residency had an alternative last line about "under the stars" in the second chorus.

The Middle 8-type bit
I think that this is somewhat improvised, honestly. Or rather, I think there's a wide variety of lines that get swapped in and out.

...
You [insert line here]
So [do/am/will] I
...
For those playing along at home, as obsessively keen on getting the lyrics for this one nailed down as I am, Verse 2 was almost certainly "Truck stop/Slow drop" in the first show of the 2023 US tour in Maryland.
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In this video from LA I hear "don't stop" and not "slow drop" but I'm quite familiar with Andrew's way of altering the lyrics. :) Really clear lyrics in this video:



We're at an intersection
We're on the way
There's a road out there
All guns, all day

I will call you a rocket ship
I will call you from afar
There's a room in a room out there
I will call you a car

It's all about the jacknife
I don't remember the name
Truck stop, don't stop
I don't remember the shame

?
So do I
?
So do I

It's really annoying with the mumbling in the bridge... what is he singing??? :)
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I think there's one version in which one of those bridge lines is "you're here with me/so am I" but I'm still convinced that there's a bunch of different lines that get swapped in and out.
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Doesn't quite sound like "room" to me.... the "m" seems to be missing. Road maybe? Role?

Edit: Oh well, on the last chorus it does sound like "room".
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I'm now quite certain from this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2XSuAL ... eConverter

...that the second line of the bridge is "Some kind of automatic silver line".

The first line is still very much something that ends with "so do I".

So there you have it - more transit imagery, and something approaching confirmation that both the "so do I" crowd and the "silver line" crowd are correct.
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"There's a rune in a room"?
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here's the bridge from last night

I hear
you're on the tracks, so am I
some kind of [automatic silver line?]
Do you remember a time when angels... do you remember a time when fear?
In the days when I was stronger, in the days when you were here?
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I heard "Your rebuttal - - showed a lie"
A man with a fictitious grin pondered the terrain in which he flooded with anguish, for this is England. The lion cannot be tamed, this is the game.
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Ah, the lyrics are condensing slowly ... :) ... nice ... ;D ...

Thanks to all who decipher ... :D :notworthy: ...
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We're at an intersection
We're on the way
There's a road out there
All guns, all day

I will call you a rocket ship
I will call you from afar
There's a room on a road out there
I will call you a car

It's all about the jacknife
I don't remember your name
Truck stop, don't drop
I won't remember the shame

You're a Buick
Silver lined
Some kind of Oldsmobile
Silver lined
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Dr. Moody wrote: ↑28 Jan 2024, 18:35 We're at an intersection
We're on the way
There's a road out there
All guns, all day

I will call you a rocket ship
I will call you from afar
There's a room on a road out there
I will call you a car

It's all about the jacknife
I don't remember your name
Truck stop, don't drop
I won't remember the shame

You're a Buick
Silver lined
Some kind of Oldsmobile
Silver lined
Brilliant. Another Eldritch banger of the post-2019 period. Absolute density and ambiguity of reference. "I will call you a car... you're a Buick", lol.
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I laughed out loud when I figured it out, it's pretty funny. Classic Eldritch.

The "Silver Lined" lyric seems to change a lot, "So do I" or "Silver ride" seem interchangeable/equally plausible.
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Amazing job! I will adjust the lyrics when I try to sing along at the concerts :oops:
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Dr. Moody wrote: ↑28 Jan 2024, 18:35 We're at an intersection
We're on the way
There's a road out there
All guns, all day

I will call you a rocket ship
I will call you from afar
There's a room on a road out there
I will call you a car

It's all about the jacknife
I don't remember your name
Truck stop, don't drop
I won't remember the shame

You're a Buick
Silver lined
Some kind of Oldsmobile
Silver lined
Very well done.
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