Contact Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I've got a lump in my throat about the note you wrote
I'd come on over but I haven't got a raincoat


[Chorus]
Have we got contact
You and me?
Have we got touchdown?
Can't we be?

[Verse 2]
I've got contacts in my book and in my eyes
My good connection on the telephone never lies

[Chorus]
Have we got contact
You and me?
Have we got touchdown?
Can't we be?

[Verse 3]
I've got a list of the people I have known
I'm never alone on the end of a phone

[Chorus]
Have we got contact
You and me?
Have we got touchdown
Can't we be?
[Verse 4]
I've got a lump in my throat about the note you wrote
I'd come on over but I haven't got a raincoat
I'd come on over but I haven't got a raincoat

[Chorus]
Have we got touchdown?
Can't we be?
Have we got contact
You and me?
Have we got touchdown?
Can't we be?
Have we got contact
You and me?
Have we got touchdown?
Can't we be?

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Genius Annotation

“Contact” is track nine on 1979’s Reggatta de Blanc and is the second of the three songs written by drummer Stewart Copeland. This time around the song’s lyrics question the validity of connection between two people. The narrator also repeats the first verse at the end, setting up the idea that the lyrics are a cycling series of doubts.

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Credits
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Recorded At
Surrey Sound Studios, Leatherhead, Mole Valley, Surrey, England
Release Date
October 5, 1979
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