Take My Call

[Verse 1]

It's obvious I never had a map

Just a drawing on the back of a placemat

From a late-night restaurant, in coffee and crayon

I scribbled out my childish plans of attack

I swear I never meant to get so lost

Or drag you through this rotten, twisted plot

In which all my best intentions, too predictable to mention

Misfired and steered us straight onto the rocks

[Pre-Chorus]

Sometimes it's easier to say that it was just one big mistake

Not the gestalt of many small ones, all my fault, and I can call them all by name

And the highest hope for tragedy is a lesson and a song

So I dismantled carefully the ways that I did you wrong

[Chorus]

If you ever decide to take my call

I would gladly surrender it all

[Verse 2]

My sleeping mind pulls out a dream that I waylaid

To see the floats the day after the Rose Parade

Smell the flowers, share a coffee, as we walk, alarm goes off

And I awake alone in the bed I've made

[Pre-Chorus]

Because it's easier to say that it was just one big mistake

Not the gestalt of many small ones, all my fault, and I can call them all by name

And the highest hope for tragedy is a lesson and a song

So I dismantled carefully the ways that I did you wrong

[Chorus]

If you ever decide to take my call

I would gladly surrender it all

[Bridge]

Leave a little piece of me (Leave a little piece)

Outside beneath the loquat trees (In your backyard)

Where I can stay, and grow, and love you

(And love you)

[Chorus]

If you ever decide to take my call

I would gladly surrender it all

If you ever decide to take my call

I would gladly surrender it all

If you ever decide to take my call