Call Me on the Car Phone

You said you saw my headlights

Turning by the hotel sign.

I said I had the same dream twice

But never had the time.

Your voice was full of traffic,

Mine was full of dashboard blue.

Between the towers and the tunnels,

I kept dialing back to you.

Lines go busy, hearts go blind,

Signals fade and reappear.

Tell me what you couldn't tell me When the morning got too

near. Call me on the car phone,

While the city slips away.

Call me from the fast lane,

Before the night becomes the day.

If the signal starts to tremble,

If the words come out alone,

Hold me through the highway hum,

Call me on the car phone.

Leather seats and station lights,

Your perfume in my coat.

I kept your number like a secret

That I never dared to quote.

You were laughing through the static,

Then you sounded close to tears.

Love was only half a sentence

Crossing twenty thousand gears.

Lines go busy, hearts go blind,

Signals fade and reappear.

Tell me what you couldn't tell me When the morning got too

near. Call me on the car phone,

While the city slips away.

Call me from the fast lane,

Before the night becomes the day.

If the signal starts to tremble,

If the words come out alone,

Hold me through the highway hum,

Call me

on the car phone.

Operator, keep us connected.

Satellite, don't let us fall.

If love is just a moving target,

Let it move through every call.

Call me on the car phone,

Let the midnight overhear.

Call me from the far side Of the words we used to

fear. If the signal starts to tremble,

If the dawn begins to show,

Hold me through the highway hum,

Call me on

the car phone.