Amos, Tori - White Telephone To God Lyrics






Do we have to get older? We do.
Do we have to get older? We do.
So besides getting grey hair, guess what showed up in the mail?
My very own white telephone....my very own white telephone to God.

When the white telephone rings, it's him.
It's not happened to me yet, but it's happened to my friend.
Hearing from the other end...
We all have to get older. It's true
And then St. Peter said, "better older than dead"
So you're being warned to change your diet.

Fresh bread, garlic, butter, toasted, dipped in the starter.
Some days don't you just need sticky toffee pudding plus
extra caramel sauce for luck?
Roasted taters and gravy, pizza thin pepperoni.
I'll make a deal with you, hold the booze in the tiramisu.
(you think you get tiramisu)

Cheesecake, red velvet cupcakes. Some favor their dream burger.
Fish and chips with tartar sauce.
Farewell carbohydrate love.

When the white telephone rings, it's him
It's not happened to me yet, but if I don't change my diet...
Hearing from the end...
We all have to get older, we do.
But then St. Peter said "better older than dead"
"That's your warning from your white telephone"
My very own white telephone to God.





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  1. T.... S....

    Everything T touches turns to gold. I've been an EWF long before there were "ears with feet". I remember the red wine and the piano from a few doors down when Little Earthquakes was being birthed. Its been a roller coaster ride since and I'm never getting off.
    I especially love when people try to decipher the lyrics of a @toriamos song. Some come close. Some miss the mark by a mile. I always seperate the lyric from the composition with any Tori song. Although it draws a map to where we are going tonaly and sonically,the two rarely live together in my understanding. If anything the music exists in ether form and Tori is a conduit for it to flow through her. The lyrics are a seperate thing altogether. Even T will tell you that she doesn't even know the songs that she plays. She gives herself over to the music. Almost like a possession by sound and shape, like a person with synesthesia- a perceptional phenomenon in which simulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic,involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. That's why people describe shapes or color when they hear tone or music. Some people have this gift and are known as "synesthetes".
    I always see the lyrics as something totally unrelated to the musical melodies,key changes, time signature changes,chord progressions,and other beautiful accidents within the chords or musical piece I'm composing. Funnily enough I do sometimes describe it as being possessed and something takes over. I see bouncing and moving shapes that tell me if the music is legatto or allegro in parts. I see color that help determine the sound whether it chromatic or augmented. The colors and shapes I see when I compose aren't something I can plan. I just let my brain take my hands and they follow. Afterwards I feel different. I feel like I've had a valium and I have no recollection of the song.
    There are times I am aware but unable to change or respond to anyone, much less anything...then suddenly I'm pulled away again. Hanging on for the ride. Becoming lost in the mix. When I'm "sitting with the muses,or the song spirits" I am unable to sing. I play the melodies in my head built around the shapes and colors I see. I am a melody writer. I make the piano sing and I accompany her(the piano). Ive never been able to play and sing. Eventhough I'm a classically trained Bel Canto style professional Opera vocalist who worked and made a living singing. I am not a person who plays and sings. I never say I "can't" play and sing. I say "I don't lnow how to play and sing very well. This is one of the first rules you learn as a professional musician and artist in school. This process of composing can be instantly taken or leave without warning sometimes. It just depends on the timing, location and what external stimuli is around. Songs will morph into something completely different than as they start off as well. That's why I "hold on", because I never know where we may be heading. Follow me on Instagram - Look for the name "Tonya Sharting" , that is my alias on Instagram just like "Tori Fantastick" is my alias for YouTube.
    One needs thier privacy. I keep my personal life very private for reasons that you can imagine....Maybe I'm famous, maybe I'm paranoid,maybe I like being able to comment and share without fear of someone stopping me. Maybe I am just freaked out by game. Maybe I do it because there are different ways to express myself. Maybe I just like my anonymity. People are fickle. The world is cruel. I don't want to be a part of the hurt. I wish to be the glue that holds the pages in the book of love,life,and musical expression for others to share. ✨✨💫🌟💫✨✨ 👂👀💥💥✨✨✨🎹🎼🎵🎶🍄🔐📽📢📻🎨🎻🎺🎷🎸🎞🎤🎟🎶🎵🎼🎹📰📒📚🎙🎤🎶🎼🎹🎹🎬
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  2. k.... ....

    This song is such fun! It has a sadly depressing 'message', but what-the-hell, it's fun all the same... \m/ (:o)

    k.... ....

    I love it. Although, '16 Shades Of Blue' is my fave on the album, and is rapidly heading towards being my all-time fave Tori track, and i have been with her since 'Little Earthquakes', so it has some big shoes to fill, but every time i listen to it, i just love it more. As i said in my previous comment though, 'White Telephone To God' is just fun! A great song... \m/ (:o)

    k.... ....

    @klistarf Interesting. I like that track as well but it's pretty loathed among Tori's long time fans as being extremely 'on the nose' in terms of all the dropped in sound effects on the track. Sometimes I listen to it and love it, and other times I find it utterly annoying.

    k.... ....

    @James Bradford that's what gives music its magic. 😘 I'm sure your aware that there are at least 500 songs hidden in the barn in Cornwall. If you didn't know. That's okay too😀. But,trust me there are many greats that haven't found the right dress to wear to Fashion week yet. Some may never be recorded and mastered with a vocal(or fitted for the ball as i say). Others are screaming right now to be set free.
    It's hard to decide when a song is finished and is ready to be handed off to the public. (Even if they are great fans, EWF, Toriphiles or etc. to be sent out into the world) My biggest problem is that I can't seem to decide: Should this be a song that's 6 mins long...,or do I edit it? Or keep writing and come up with a musical like The Light Princess 👸,or the next installment of the "song cycle" like "Night of Hunters" was..... Which is by far Tori's most classically driven album and is greatly underappreciated by fans. And the whole time the public,me included, was being selfish wanting another "Baker Baker" or "1000 oceans" totally forgetting about the duty to the music. And the whole record label launch for Night of Hunters. Meanwhile, Tori was off hoping that she did the great composers of the past a fair representation of thier great works as well as adopting thier composing and playing style..all the while honoring the greats and hoping it was good enough to hold water when compared to thier body of work. And it did. It was very much a patchwork composition of many different styles which were technically challenging and emotionally charged also. It's an album that people will listen to 200 years from now and say "That lady broke the ideology of what it means to be a pop star, and proved that music is the universal language. That's why 200 years later we are still listening.". Just as we listen to and play pieces by: Listz ,Rachmaninoff, Mozart or Chopin, to name a few still today.
    Warm Regards -T

    k.... ....

    @klistarf Cezanne was known for his multi dept blue pigments blended masterfully and applied in an abstract way. His paintings are beautiful but some people just aren't into art. Still, I remember Tori saying that someone gave her a book of his work a while back and she never really quite got it. Something just didn't click or line up. (I'm paraphrasing) Then during some time in Cornwall while working on UG (Unrepentant Geraldines) she often refers to books and other mediums for lyrical and melodic inspiration(so I've been told) she came across Cezanne's great works in a book on the shelf and something clicked and she wrote "16 Shades of Blue" which by the way is an awesome musical number. It almost reminds me of a sound with a hint of "Suede" background mastering and percussion. It xoukd be that line "There are days I feel your twin Peek a boo..hiding...underneath..your skin.." . That always reminded me of the line in 16 Shades...the last line lyrically- "Before you drop another verbal bomb
    Can I arm myself
    With Cezanne's 16 shades of blue..." I hope this message finds you well. Follow me on Instagram... Look for "Tonya Sharting", that's me. Warm regards -T

    k.... ....

    To be fair he was known for other things but tgis sticks out in my mind. (Cezanne)

  3. R.... H....

    wow she's singing about food....I LOVE IT!!! 😊😊😊😋😌😍