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| re: “Look I’ll call you in the morning or my service will explain” from Company | |
| Posted by: Thom915 04:08 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
| In reply to: re: “Look I’ll call you in the morning or my service will explain” from Company - davei2000 02:55 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
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| Having worked for three different answering services when I first moved to New York back in the seventies, your answer comes the closest to the way an answering service would operate. The answering services very rarely made phone calls on behalf of the client though we would occasionally make telephone calls to the client at a number different than theirs. (Those would be logged and the client would be charged extra per call. Therefore it is conceivable Bobby could have the service call Marta and offer some excuse. More likely it was just that Bobby would leave a message for Marta that he was unavailable. (haha, no lie there) The message could have been left that if any woman called for him they were to be told he was unavailable or some such other excuse. | |
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| re: “Look I’ll call you in the morning or my service will explain” from Company | |
| Posted by: gcarl44 04:32 pm EST 12/18/17 | |
| In reply to: re: “Look I’ll call you in the morning or my service will explain” from Company - Thom915 04:08 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
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| The line is not about Bobby, but rather the impersonal nature of a large, bustling metropolis and the ability to connect with people. | |
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| re: “Look I’ll call you in the morning or my service will explain” from Company | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 04:50 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
| In reply to: re: “Look I’ll call you in the morning or my service will explain” from Company - Thom915 04:08 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
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| I agree with the general idea - but I'm not sure that there's meant to be any direct connection here (no pun intended) to Bobby in the lyric. I don't think the song is about HIM in any direct way - it's Marta's impressions of the crazy/busy life in Manhattan for sure, but it seems to me that the subject of this section of the song is the more general "they" she keeps mentioning ("they meet at parties" etc) rather than Bobby specifically. Bobby can and would certainly be one member of the "they," of course - but it's not just about him. | |
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| re: “Look I’ll call you in the morning or my service will explain” from Company | |
| Posted by: Thom915 09:33 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
| In reply to: re: “Look I’ll call you in the morning or my service will explain” from Company - Chromolume 04:50 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
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| You are quite correct. I don't know why I tried to equate that with Bobby. | |
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| re: “Look I’ll call you in the morning or my service will explain” from Company | |
| Posted by: jeffef 05:04 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
| In reply to: re: “Look I’ll call you in the morning or my service will explain” from Company - Chromolume 04:50 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
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| I’m getting a kick out of these yunguns not understanding the concept of a service. See: Bells are Rining. How many times has someone said I’ll call and not really mean it. Ha ha | |
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| re: “Look I’ll call you in the morning or my service will explain” from Company | |
| Posted by: Ann 05:32 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
| In reply to: re: “Look I’ll call you in the morning or my service will explain” from Company - jeffef 05:04 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
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| I'm old enough to understand answering services, but I don't think the lyric makes sense, if you think about it. I still love it, though. | |
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| re: “Look I’ll call you in the morning or my service will explain” from Company | |
| Posted by: bobby2 10:20 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
| In reply to: re: “Look I’ll call you in the morning or my service will explain” from Company - Ann 05:32 pm EST 12/15/17 | |
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| I think it is just part of the fragmented frenzy of chatter the character perceives city life to be: "I'll meet you there, no I'll pick you up, no we'll let it go" | |
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