Telephones ring and people don't answer them sometimes and then sometimes people do answer the phones and on the other end are people they don't want to talk to and so the people who answer the phones get sad however, very often the people on the other end of the phone are people whom the people who answer the phones want to talk to and this is where our story begins one drunk, one payphone two rings and she answers hello? it's you? i haven't heard from you in years she'll hang up he thinks she'll hang up he fears you're drunk aren't you? you've had too many beers oh just one just one well...two where are you? she asks i'll come pick you up oh i don't know, some diner it's cool i've got my truck she hung up, told him to wait it's just her luck after all these years why'd he have to call now? she's married, this sucks here you are she says i've come to pick you up she takes one good look one look...two looks she can read him just like he is a book you're pale, she says what's wrong, he shook he shudders, like death itself is how he looked i'm dead...i'm dead...too dead you're silly you're alive, you're here with me you don't understand, his face streaked with tears why can't you see? for as long as i can remember i've been as dead as can be i didn't get it either until i met a man who made me free with these words met a man who made me free with these words there's a light at the end of the tunnel there's a light at the end of the tunnel and that light is generated by a fire that i'm gonna fall into and burn for eternity and then he was no longer breathing there at her feet