The content of this song is just a song heartbreak song. Young man he lament about love, broken dreams crumble as he did not accept it.
.But the special of this song at singing, a singer pulled Payphone the media in the narrative. To explain the feeling lost, strange, unfamiliar with the new life (without you). A sentence in the chorus " I'm at a payphone trying to call home" it conveys trying to connect memories with a estranged lover.