This video demonstrates that the popular transcript of Spamton's voice lines is (in my opinion) incorrect.

The following recordings were used in this video, thanks go to them for ripping and isolating the lines:
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By reducing the speed of the recordings, it becomes much easier to make out the individual words. This video does just that.

A transcript that closely matches the phonetic structure is the following:

"Fingers coming from the inside of the phone
a hand that's waiting 'til you're all alone
it pulls the strings and makes them ring
until your heart turns red."

(It is notable that the plush's version of the lines is much more compressed than the one used in the song. Because of this, it becomes much harder to understand certain words. Secondly, the lines used by the song and the plush are sped up, and pitch-shifted by different levels throughout.)

For comparison, the popular version, which everyone seems to think is correct, is the following:

"(I) think he's coming for me, answer the phone
I can't explain until you're all alone
It pulls the strings and makes them ring
until your heart starts to break up"

(alternatively: "until your heart gets ripped out")

The video demonstrates that this interpretation cannot match. The phonetics of the words "answer", "explain", "break up" and "ripped out" are simply not there. The words "waiting", "fingers" and "turns", however, are undeniably audible in both recordings when slowed.

Additionally, the transcript shown in this video is more appropriate to the context of the game's lore. A possible interpretation is that Spamton is talking about the entity that corrupted him over the phone, a hand that came when he was all alone, which is now pulling his strings.

Another reason to claim that this is the correct transcript, is because of what Susie says after the fight:

* Hey so... are we seriously...
* NOT gonna talk about any of that?
* That was god damn weird.
* Puppets... strings... hands...
* What the hell does any of that mean?
* And the way he just... broke.

She specifically points out the topic of "hands", despite them not being a topic of the dialogue during the entire fight. You can convince yourself by searching the dialogue dump:
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The only reason to mention the topic would be if it was actually something front and center, enough to make an impression.

Edit: Additionally, Toby has alluded to the transcript starting with the letters "FIN":

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(Yes, the question was about "Now's your chance to be a", but the voices in that song aren't exactly a mystery. We know they don't start with FIN, and the other responses in that Twitter thread were generally reliable information. Both the person asking, and Toby responding, were likely meant the lines spoken in BIG SHOT.)

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