Cover art for What’s a Telephone Bill? by Bootsy’s Rubber Band
Jan. 14, 19771 viewer5.5K views

What’s a Telephone Bill? Lyrics

[Intro]
Hello baby
Yes, it's your friendly phone fanatic again
Oh, yeah, I'm loaded
With verbal rap ability, baby
You know you inspire me to poetry
So listen while I recite naughty nothings
That'll wet your eardrums
I'd like to, I'd like to, I'd like to
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh, can I make sweet love to you baby?

What I'd like to do would be good to you
And if you hang up on me now, I'll be through

[Hook]
I'm just living and I'm loving, waiting for the moment
When you got time to kill
And if I can get your love
Then what's a telephone bill?

[Interlude]
According to way the way you make me feel
I guess you'd call it obscene phone call
I'm not a storyteller though, baby
I'd rather be with you, me to me
Oh, a sort of physical love, like, bubba
Oh, you're the sweetest fantasy I know
You
Excuse me if I seem obscene to you
I'm being real and that seems the thang to do

[Hook]
I'm just living and I'm loving, waiting for the moment
When you got time to kill
And if I can get your love
Then what's a telephone bill?
I'm just living and I'm loving, waiting for the moment
When you got time to kill
And if I can get your love
Then what's a telephone bill?


Oh baby, uh, well just hang on
I'd like to, I'd like to, I'd like to, yeah, yeah, yeah
I'd like to make sweet love to you

[Interlude]
Oh no, not that baby
I wanna get real with you
Let me just breathe in your ear hole, baby
Don't fake me out
I love you, baby
Let me see if I can hit that note again
I love you, baby!
Can you just explain to me what key are you in, baby?
I'd like to get real funk-kay
[Hook]
I'm just living and I'm loving, waiting for the moment
When you got time to kill
And if I can get your love
Then what's a telephone bill?
I'm just living and I'm loving, waiting for the moment
When you got time to kill
And if I can get your love
Then what's a telephone bill?
I'm just living and I'm loving, waiting for the moment
When you got time to kill
And if I can get your love
Then what's a telephone bill?
Oh, oh
I'd like to make sweet love to you

[Outro]
Maybe I'll manicure your toenails
And uh, make sweet love to you girl
Rub my body with yours
Wait a minute operator, I'm not talking to you

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What does "what's a telephone bill?" mean?
Genius Answer

“And if I can get your love / Then what’s a telephone bill?” is essentially Bootsy shrugging off the costs of calling his lover. To him, the calls are worth so much emotionally (and sexually), he doesn’t care about how much they will cost.

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