Oh I know I don't own you / but I don't even know if I should phone you

Someone sending me letters / saying you've been going with other fellers

And they / bored you / But I / don't wanna cry / or talk for hours

to a machine / on the end / of a telephone line

Oh it just kills me / when all you've got to do is call

Oh do it any time / 'cause there's never no-one home / never no-one home

Leave your message on the ansaphone / I'm not trying to be clever

but at least we're not still living together

All those calls in the evening / if I answered they'd hang up without speaking

And they / bored you / But I / don't want to cry / or talk for hours

to a machine / on the end / of a telephone line

Oh it just kills me / when all you've got to do is call

Oh do it any time / 'cause there's never no-one home / never no-one home

Leave your message on the ansaphone

[Beep!]

"Hello, its me. I just wanted to call and say it doesn't matter what you get up to.

I just want you to stay in touch. That's all."

Are you really not at home? / Or are you there but not alone?

Screening calls / you don't want to receive / meaning calls

calls that come from me / Oh I / need to see you

It's not enough for me just to hear you / You said you'd be here by ten thirty

but you want to stay out and be dirty / Oh it just kills me

when all you've got to do is call / Oh do it any time

'cause there's never no-one home / never no-one home

Leave your message on the ansaphone.