""No Dial Tone"" genre: Experimental/Post Rock
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	Almost entitled, "What Kind of Conversation Is This?", which would have described it perfectly. This song will one day be seen as the perfect tool for measuring the value of every conversation in the world, and so it definitely fills a void.
	CD: "The Gravity"   Label: self-distributed Credits: Words, music, instruments, production, etc. by Jonathan David Steinhoff
	Story Behind the Song Although likely to seem cynical or even silly, this song exists for the serious purpose of stating or restating part of the social contract regarding communication. Something like that should only exist as a song. I kept it simple, and spent far less time actuating it than I did cogitating on its elements over time. Lyrics Good evening ladies and gentlemen This song is dedicated to all the people who've shouted "fire" in a theatre that was on fire, and then somebody made a recording and played back their words in a theatre that wasn't on fire It's not your fault, don't let them blame you for that What kind of conversation is this When there's something so very important that isn't being said? What kind of conversation is this Is it time for us all to just massage eachother's heads? I know it's not fair When words come flying at you And you've only got 3.2 seconds to fit each one in With the up-to-the-moment state of your life And then there are sentences, paragraphs, pages Where does a person begin, but What kind of conversation is this When there's something so very important that isn't being said? Does this conversation exist to build certain kinds of silences And the silences go on Are the silences here to build up Some of the words in somebody else's conversation What kind of conversation is this? Maybe I think you're acting goofy When you take yourself seriously What you're saying means something But it doesn't mean enough to me I've got something to say But don't look for my meaning here What kind of conversation is this Just something that rhymes in your ear

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