There's no more answering service; the song mentions texting instead.
Which to me is an entirely different take on the lyric, and an inferior one, even if penned by the master.
In the original, the choice was to talk directly or to skirt the issue by using the more impersonal answering service, which ties right into the frantic "city of strangers" idea in the song. But "or I'll text you to explain" just isn't the same, because it seems to me a lot of people prefer texting as a direct communication method anyway. There isn't quite the same stigma there, and less people would feel texting is impersonal at all. |
