Payphone

Payphone

Payphone

The night is calm, so is my heart
but I'm wonderin' still
if we were meant to part...
and yet I think,
as I wait for the sun...
I wonder if it was right
to have done what I've done....

yeah, all I have’s a payphone
and a heart I need to mend
maybe if I call you
I can finally live again....

I slip into the payphone
and dial it for you
as I wait for you to answer
I hope you miss me too...

I remember your birthday,
you were turning thirty-one
I heard nobody remembered,
I still don't know why I didn't come

I hate myself for all these things,
for the things I did to you
I want to reach out and hold you close
but I know it's something I can't do.

yeah, all I have’s a payphone
and a heart I need to mend
maybe if I call you
I can finally live again....

I know that you got married,
you got married all alone
after that you graduated
had enough money to buy a home

and all I can do is make a call
I'm just a shadow, just a shadow
not a person at all....
just a shadow, not a person at all..

I heard you had no children
he left you too soon, it seems
and I know that was the greatest thing
that shattered all your dreams

I hate myself for being that man,
a man with a heart of stone,
I left you in the world to wander,
shattered, all alone

yeah, all I have’s a payphone
and a heart I need to mend
maybe if I call you
I can finally live again....

I'm hoping if I call you,
somehow that will make it right,
but I know that that's impossible
as I stare out into the night

because I heard you died of cancer
I heard you died alone
oh, baby you don't know how much I need to call you,
to talk to an empty phone

I need to tell you everything!
to tell you how I feel
because I'm just a shadow
in a world that's barely real

yeah, all I have’s a payphone
and a heart I need to mend
maybe if I call you
you can finally live again....
you can finally live again...
maybe if I call you, you can finally live again.

but I know that you are gone
as I think of all the things I'd say
if you were still there to listen,
and my last quarter slips away.