Four minutes (Extended Lounge Remix)

(Originally from Through A Wall) [Verse 1] Your number was in it before it was a mobile I copied it over from a pad in the hall Three houses, four phones, and it followed me through And it's still in there now under D for the word Dad I have opened it up on a Tuesday for nothing Just to look at the letters and put the thing down And I've got to the ring twice and hung up on the second And nobody knows that but me and the phone [Chorus] Four minutes Twice a year That's the whole of the traffic Between two people who are meant to be something Four minutes Christmas and June I could have called you on any of the other Three hundred and sixty-three [Verse 2] There's a thing that gets bigger the longer you leave it A phone call in March becomes a phone call in May And by August it's a thing you'd have to explain And by then you're not calling, you're making a speech So you wait for a date that comes with a reason Because a reason means you don't have to say why you rang And Christmas has a reason and birthdays have reasons And that's how you get down to four minutes a year [Chorus] Four minutes Twice a year That's the whole of the traffic Between two people who are meant to be something Four minutes Christmas and June I could have called you on any of the other Three hundred and sixty-three [Verse 3] I used to think you didn't ring me either Which is true, and I've made quite a lot out of that But I've been the one waiting for somebody's move And I know what it costs and I know how it feels And you were doing the same thing, sat in your kitchen With my number in a book by a phone on the wall Two people not ringing is not the same story As one person not being rung [Chorus] Four minutes Twice a year That's the whole of the traffic Between two people who are meant to be something Four minutes Christmas and June I could have called you on any of the other Three hundred and sixty-three