Verse 1)
I hear your breathing
Before you say my name
Some things survive the years
Some things never change
You say you saw the ocean
And I’m right back there again
Barefoot in the moonlight
Running wild against the wind
We were crashing through the waves
Laughing like the world was ours
Dancing on those rooftops
Counting every shooting star
And your kiss tasted like forever
On that dock at break of dawn
Funny how a moment
Can keep living after it’s gone
(Pre-Chorus)
But life kept pulling us apart
Every road, another scar
Close enough to feel the fire
Too far to stay where we are
(Chorus)
So when the phone rings
I already know
It’s the only voice
That ever felt like home
And for a little while
The ache inside me leaves
We talk like no time’s passed
Like we still believe
That somehow, somewhere
Love like ours survives
Two hearts in the dark
Keeping each other alive
Oh, when the phone rings
I remember what it means
To be loved by someone
I could never keep
(Verse 2)
You remember New Orleans
That rooftop in the rain
Your head against my shoulder
My hands around your waist
You said in another lifetime
We’d get it right somehow
No borrowed days, no goodbyes
No fear of losing now
But we were always tied to something
Someone else, another need
Two souls full of fire
Still chained to gravity
And every time I almost healed
You’d call out of the blue
Like God was reminding me
No one ever came close to you
(Pre-Chorus)
And every “how you been?”
Feels like a knife and a prayer
‘Cause one touch from your memory
And suddenly you’re there
(Chorus)
So when the phone rings
I already know
That old familiar heartbreak
Is walking through my door
And for a little while
I can finally breathe
You laugh and all the lonely
Lifts right off of me
We talk until sunrise
Like kids we used to be
Two hearts still reaching
Across a lifetime in between
Oh, when the phone rings
I remember what was true
No one ever loved me
The way you do
(Bridge)
And I’m terrified one night
The call just won’t come through
Silence where your voice was
Nothing left of you
No more “do you remember?”
No more staying up till dawn
No more hearing “I miss you”
After all these years gone wrong
So if heaven’s waiting somewhere
Beyond this life we knew
Save me the last dance, darling
I’ll come looking for you
(Final Chorus)
And when the phone rings
On some distant shore
I’ll answer like I always have
But this time there’ll be more
No fear of losing contact
No running from the truth
Just your hand reaching for mine
Like it always wanted to
And the waves will keep on rolling
Under gold eternal skies
Two hearts finally together
At the end of all goodbye
Oh, when the phone rings
It won’t break us anymore
It’ll just be you
Coming home.
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