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Phone Power, 2016
Written by John Flansburgh and John Linnell
A lunatic hears a voice and is astounded to find that the thing is talking, and not only that, what it's saying matches exactly what he was thinking! He also protests too much, defeively asking why he might be recording, and "It said something new / That wouldn't come out of me / And I don't even dream about that kind of thing." He has to lay down and think things over, and also set some monkeys free. A repeated keyboard beat, sounding something like an alarm, is a recurring motif, which I find a bit annoying, but gives the song an appropriately insistent, cramped, delusional vibe.
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