Take My Call

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
 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 I did you wrong
 If you ever decide to take my call
 I would gladly surrender it all
 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
 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 I did you wrong
 If you ever decide to take my call
 I would gladly surrender it all
 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)
 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