00:02In the dark, the line still sings
00:12No one answers, still it rings
00:51There's a black phone hanging on the wall
00:58Disconnected, yet it calls a boy in shadows
01:01Here's the dead, whispers from the ones who fled
01:07A masked man smiles with eyes so wide
01:11The kind that never truly hide
01:15They said it was only make-believe
01:18A story told to make you leave
01:20But the ringing never stops
01:23Can you hear the black phone ring?
01:27Tell them truths they never sing
01:30In the basement of the night
01:34Where the mask becomes the light
01:38They put it on the silver screen
01:42So you'd forget what you had seen
01:55The lure was soft, the van was black
01:58The door upstairs stayed unlocked
02:00A brother sleeping just above
02:02Claimed you never saw the love
02:04Of the game they called naughty boy
02:08Turning fear into a toy
02:11The writer's son put it in ink
02:14The horror king just winked in blink
02:16Said the list was Santa's dream
02:18Can you hear the black phone ring?
02:22Tell them truths they never sing
02:26In the basement of the night
02:30Where the mask becomes the light
02:33They put it on the silver screen
02:37So you'd forget what you had seen
02:59Look closer at those eyes
03:01The smile that never dies
03:03The island far away
03:05The parties they still play
03:07The films that keep arriving
03:09Showing what they're still denying
03:11Revelation of the method
03:13Tell you one so you forget it
03:17Can you hear the black phone ring?
03:21Louder now than anything
03:25It was never just a show
03:29Everyone already knows
03:32The masked man, the king of tales
03:37The son who wrote the details
03:40The system showed the face
03:45And called it only
03:48Fiction's place
03:51The call was real
03:54The call was real
03:58And now you hear it too
04:25And now you hear it too
04:29It was never the mid-
04:29Who wrote the sign
04:30The body
04:30Who wrote
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