Phone Call (Chambers)

Story Behind The Song

I've got a phone call to make today

Reach out to futures perhaps

I bask in sunny weather

Even though rain continues to fall

Traipse through the gardens left and right

Statues of glory days again

Greek gods in stunning clarity

In this mood I stand in their place

And you're the reason

My mind is glowing

You have changed me

Brought me to a wondrous place

It's a scary thing to dive right on

With complicated circumstance

I'd never ask you to sacrifice

Give up the magic that lives in your eyes

I can be patient

No timer ticking out

There's something deeper

I will give this endless time

I'm looking for tomorrow

The sun is shining bright

The fear gets thrown away

As long as you will take my hand

Dreaming of you I never want to awake

This dopey smile comes flowing free

And all is before I've sunk my heart, my head

And embraced this certainty

I'm looking for tomorrow

The sun is shining bright

The fear gets thrown away

As long as you will take my hand

  Copyright 2003 LHH songs

Sometimes, it just takes a blizzard to get one's creative juices flowing. I wrote the majority of this song in about an hour, during the February storm that saw some two feet of snow pile up in DC over the course of 24 hours. It's a happy one about the excitement of finding someone you really like, coupled with the nervous energy of psyching yourself up to pick up that phone and make the first call. You start to daydream about what it might be like, and have that first conversation a hundred times in your head before you ever dial. At least I do...