Four Minutes
Reflections on Choices: A Poignant Musical Journey
Lyrics
Four minutes and counting.
Countdown begins; four minutes remaining.
O.K.
Confirmation that everything is okay.
They pressed the button, Jim.
Someone named Jim is informed that a button has been pressed.
They pressed the button Billy, what button?
Jim is questioned about which button was pressed, specifically mentioning the big red one.
The big red one.
Confirmation about pressing the big red button.
You mean THE button?
Clarification about "THE button," emphasizing its significance.
Goodbye, Jim.
Farewell message from Jim.
Goodbye! Oh yes. This ain't aurevoir, it's goodbye! Ha! Ha!
Humorous remark about the farewell, distinguishing it from a temporary goodbye.
This is KAOS. It's a beautiful, balmy, Southern California summer day. It's 80 degrees ... I said balmy ... I could say bomby ... Ha! Ha! ...O.K. I'm Jim and this is Radio KAOS and with only four minutes left to us, let's use this as wisely as possible.
Introduction to KAOS radio, providing weather details and mentioning the urgency of the moment.
Everybody got someone they call home.
Reference to everyone having someone they call home.
Out at Dodger Stadium. It's the bottom of the seventh, the Dodgers are leading three to nothing over the Giants, and for those of you who are looking to go surfing tomorrow, too bad.
Description of a baseball game at Dodger Stadium.
(Telephone rings)
Telephone rings, indicating a potential call from someone named Billy.
I'm kinda lost in here to tell you the truth ... O.K. good. Ladies and gentlemen, if the reports that we are getting are correct, this could be it. Billy, if you're listening to me, please call now.
Expressing uncertainty and urgency, asking Billy to call in if he's listening.
After a near miss on the plane
Reflections on various life experiences, emphasizing promises and resolutions.
You swear you'll never fly again
-After the first kiss when you make up
-You swear you'll never break up again
-And when you've just run a red light
-Sit shaking under the street light
-You swear to yourself you'll never drink and drive again
-Sometimes I feel like going home
-You swear you'll never let things go by again.
-Sometimes I miss the rain and snow
-And you'll never toe the party line again
-And when the east wind blows
-Sometimes I feel like going home
-Billy, if you are listening, please call.
Reiteration of the plea for Billy to call.
Sole has no eyes.
Symbolic references to the lack of sight in a sole (fish), repeated twice.
Goodbye little spy in the sky. They say that cameras don't lie. Am I happy, am I sad, am I good, am I bad?
-Billy, if you're listening, please call.
-Sole has no eyes, sole has no eyes
-Ten, nine, eight, seven
Continuation of the countdown and mention of an independent nuclear deterrent.
Our own independent nuclear deterrent has helped to keep the peace.
-Six, five four, three,
-You've go a job
-Two, one,
-For nearly forty years
-Goodbye Billy.
Farewell message to Billy.
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