Red telephone sitting by my bed
Practically bore your name
Lying alone in the twilight zone
Waiting for your call to come in
Hadn’t been for the kid
Who was sleeping upstairs
You’d have found me well on my way
On that midnight plane to L.A.
You suffered sweeter for me
Than anyone I’ve ever known
I dared to look into the years
Would you still have your wife?
I dared to peer through my tears
Could we ever have a life?
Even thought I was pregnant by you
But I didn’t care
I just talked to my son
Would he mind another one?
You suffered sweeter for me
Than anyone I’ve ever known
Once more the mist rolls to the sea
Like a hundred times we’ve known
Trees are faded and the clouds have stopped
Where the wind had blown
How I dread when the evening comes
And I cannot be
What you want me to be
When you are next to me
How silent you are as the veils come down
Before my eyes