Jim Croce - Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels) Lyrics
Operator, well could you help me place this call
See, the number on the match book is old and faded
She's living in L.A
With my best old ex-friend Ray
A guy she said she knew well and sometimes hated
But isn't that the way they say it goes
Well let's forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell 'em I'm fine, and to show
I've overcome the blow
I've learned to take it well
I only wish my words
Could just convince myself
That it just wasn't real
But that's not the way it feels
Operator, well could you help me place this call
'Cause I can't read the number that you just gave me
There's something in my eyes
You know it happens every time
I think about the love that I thought would save me
But isn't that the way they say it goes
Well let's forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell 'em I'm fine, and to show
I've overcome the blow
I've learned to take it well
I only wish my words
Could just convince myself
That it just wasn't real
But that's not the way it feels
No, no, no, no
That's not the way it feels
Operator, well let's forget about this call
There's no one there I really wanted to talk to
Thank you for your time
Ah, you've been so much more than kind
You can keep the dime
But isn't that the way they say it goes
Well let's forget all that
And give me the number if you can find it
So I can call just to tell 'em I'm fine, and to show
I've overcome the blow
I've learned to take it well
I only wish my words
Could just convince myself
That it just wasn't real
But that's not the way it feels
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Jim Croce Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels) Comments
I still listen to this song. It is brutally hard and honest about relationships.
This song is dated but hardly so much that anybody today couldn't relate to it. Croce's best song and would make my short list of the best of any song ever.
Bela voz, bela melodia!
You can get high listening to music as good as this
Crazy how a song from 1972 can still give you the chills
Just a great tune!
beautiful song
Jamming
are phone booths a thing of the past now i am thinking
Great music
Great song writer
You can bet he wrote his own stuff. Didn't need help. He was at the "top of his fame" when he passed. He had so much more to share.
I cried when he died. Couldn't help it. What a loss for all of us.
Excellent song!
"You can keep the dime."
I love those kind of comfortable silences....they're very special
Certainly better than any modern songs, only a few are really any good at all.
40 years today. RIP Jim
Jim Croce is the Randy Rhoads of the Acoustic Guitar.
beautiful song
Beautiful song!!!
My grandfather passed away 3 years ago. This song reminds me of the memories that I had with him when I was a little boy.
just as simple as this, they just dont make music like this anymore. love the classics
Meanwhile, if this song was a "fad" in another country you would have no problem with it.
That experience you comment about with your father, is the exact sentiment I feel whenever i hear this song.
Love his songs, but this got to be the greatest!!
what can i tell you, my wife is gone, she left me with my son and a broken heart... and i would like die when i hear this
I like!!!! it's Beautiful.
This might be the best song ever written.
In my opinion, the best song ever written. Simple, honest, and strong.
This song was on a cd that my father had for his alarm for many years. I remember waking up just before this alarm, which began with Your Mama Don't Dance by Loggins and Messina, and continued by playing this song. It is one of the memories I hold dear to my heart, and I can't help but think of my father whenever I hear this.
R.I.P.
Listened to Jim Croce first time and let me tell you such a great song that i want to listen it again and again.
Jim was my favorite in the 70s and it is still today.
The songs live on forever.
If popularity is more important to someone than talent, then that's their loss.
<3 this..... Wish my children could enjoy this music the way I did. It brings back great memories
when music had a heart and soul
I don't understand how anyone could dislike this...people are slowly but surely losing appreciation for good music.
lennon, harrison, cobain
You can keep the dime.......
Wow. I get it.
I heard this on the radio the other day, and I have since added it to my list of songs to learn how to play on guitar. Excellent melody, excellent lyrics, just an excellent song in general.
My aunt introduced me to Jim Croces music when I was about 11. I still know the words to alot of his songs. This is my fav. RIP JC
thats the best feeling isnt it? getting that one moment even if it is just for that moment..between you and your dad...a unspoken moment of togetherness that only a beautifull song can bring.
let me tell you this song has so many memories...i remember listening to this song when i was a kid with my dad... even now mr. croce's songs always brings tears of joy and remeberance to my eyes.thank you for all your music well loved.
Thanks Jim, miss you, Slide.So many years, I'm still here.
lol I never noticed that. good call
It brings me back to my real life.
He looks a lot like Frank Zappa
I'd forgotten about this song until the other day when a young guy joined an open mic I play at and just nailed it. You could hear the audience let out their breath at the end before the applause. Beautiful song and not an easy one. Jim Croce classic. Very cool seeing it perpetuated and done so well.
Sherri,we can still be friends!You know how to get in touch with me & there's no harm in that.Just the same,I'm happy for you & yours.May life give all there's to be had in this world,you deserve it.Paul
i remember 8 years ago, my dad put this song on a cd for me along with a bunch of other classics. god i miss that cd
beautiful;)
My favorite song
Bonito Bigote.
this is my bfs utube. but i am 32 and was so inlove with this song back when i was 18. music from back when my mom was my age. she passed 6 yrs ago from cancer and it gets me every time. miss you sydney.
Great Music and a a real nice guy( Jim Croce)
I love this song, it is so pretty...
This song came to me the day my father died..
I forgot everything of thid day. Except this song, softly, tenderly bringing me in arms. Jim's arms.
32 years ago..
Still deep, unforgettable
heartfelt music,i love it !!!
this is what you have to do when you are in a trouble like this...SING, and dont stop singing until your soul stop crying...
...I can't read the number you just gave me....
What have I done? How did I end up this way? Jim I wish I didn't miss her either. She still here, see her around. We still talk. I want to go back home with her. I've got a few operators that keep me away, absence makes the heart grow fonder. They forget it works on the one letting go too.
piano084 you made my day thanks for posting
I think this is one of the all time great song's. and wish he hadn't been lost to us so young. and yes i do remember when a call was a Dime. LOL
i love jim croce and to johnaldrige740 touching post about your dad and his love for jimcroce. awesome you love your dad so much a thumbs up.
This is one of the truest songs ever written.
I was 14 when I first heard this song. It's very relaxing.
This song's amazing; great lyrics.
one of the best raconteurs ever!
You can keep the dime...
im 52 years old , but this song is a great song makes people thing of whats going on around them and the ones they miss
17 people are EMOTIONLESS:-(
suck me back to the seventies...thank God
Pop is actually pretty "old" ;)
My mother was at USM in Hattiesburg Miss. where Jim was flying to do a show at when his plane went down. He was and still is an amazing artist!! R.I.P. Jim you will be forever missed.
Beautiful song, so many emotions flowing through me. I remember word of Jim Croce's tour plane going down and his life and career cut short. What a talent and inspration in my life. I love this song. Always have since day 1 when Jim was still performing it and I was only 10.
Great singer and song writer writer . I can listen to Jim Croce any time of the day.
i really love this song, I remember so much things when I listen it..... it's simply a beautiful song.
Great Song !!
Im 13 and have always been exposed to older music, i hate rap, i hate pop, and i dispise dubstep, you cant make music with a computer, it has to come from. I dont listen to anything after 2000, because music was too far gone by then.
Thank you for uploading one Jim Croce's most compelling works, piano084. Though the man is gone, his greatness lives on through his music. Thanks for helping the world preserve his immortality.
We don't expect these people to Like a song that couldn't possibly offend anyone. But we DO expect them to have some maturity and not Dislike the song just because it has a unanimous or nigh-unanimous number of Likes. That vulgar breed of contrariness is just a step removed from the sheer malice of dumping motor oil into a pristine pond just because it's "too pretty" for the compulsive hater's malignant and very narrow tastes. And YouTube could certainly do without it.
There are TONS of important older people in the world. You just have to sell your soul and become a politician, that's all. ;)
But this is one of those songs that sneaks up on you while you're thinking about how awful the present is, takes your hand and leads you back to a more halcyon past. For some reason I just had this song in a dream (even though I haven't heard it in many years), so I woke up and came right here to listen again.
Thanks for being part of my youth, Jim. Godspeed.
sad to say this!,.KPOP and JB are the most viewed here..
.I won't stop listening this kind of genre!..
♩♩♩♩♩♪♪♪♪♫♫♫ OPERATOR
make that 15 now... sad
this song makes me cry every time i hear it
I'm 16, I Was raised towards the oldies, But i was a stuborn child. Listening to Either "Rap/ Rock." I Used to always hate my mother's music, It wasn't until recently, i realized, this is the real music, But now, I'm growing, and starting to Mature even more. Knowing how hard it'll be when my mother passes away knowing i have her singing voice engraved in my mind, Will make it hurt just as much when i do listen to a familiar song she always sang to me as a young boy. That's all i have to say..
Fantastc
I'm 18, and i love Jim, he died far to young.
I love Jim Croce. What a star he would have become. RIP Jim !
<3 this song. SO beautiful.
I really love this song. I know it's about a lost love, but it applies to so much of life. The words "I've overcome the blow, I learned to take it well, I only wish my words would just convince myself, that it just wasn't real, but that's not the way it feels" hit home with me now in a way I never imagined they would when I would sing this song as a kid.
Thank you for posting this.
Great song, I'm 26 years old and will be the first to admit the 60's and 70's were the best decades of music making.
Makes me proud to be a Pennsylvanian to hear this. :) Thanks Jim! You did us ALL proud!
Thank you for uploading - from Ireland with love xxxxxxxxx