(Somebody...)
  Told her that there was a place like heaven
  Across the water on a 747
  Yeah, we're living in
  In a modern world.
  
  And pretty soon she's really got the notion
  Of flying out across the big blue ocean
  Yeah, we're living in
  In a modern world.
  
  Talk is cheap on satellite
  But all I get is (static!)
  Information, I'm still here
  Re-dial on automatic.
  
  CHORUS:
  Calling America (can't get a message through)
  Calling America (that's what she said to do)
  Calling America (that's where she has to be)
  Calling America (she left a number for me)
  Calling America.
  
  But I'm just talking to a satellite
  Twenty thousand miles up in the sky each night
  Yeah, we're living in
  In a modern world.
  
  All I had to do was pick up the phone
  I'm out in space, trying to talk to someone
  Yeah, we're living in
  In a modern world.
  
  She left a number I could call
  But no one's there, no one at all
  There must be something going wrong
  That number just rings on and on.
  
  REPEAT CHORUS
  
  Said she'd call when she'd been gone a while
  Guess she's missing me across the miles
  Yeah, we're living in
  In a modern world.
  
  REPEAT CHORUS
  
  Calling America, Calling America