If You Ask Me To

Well, the phone rang at nine o 'clock
I rolled out of bed in some little Parisian flop
And your voice exploded through the line
Well there you are. I 've been trying to get ahold of you.
No doubt you 've done something you 'll never own up to.
You know the truth has a better chance than you do of change.
I thought of easy living down there on the Champs-Élysées

I waited just for you, but you 're leaving
Don 't you think I wanted to? I wasn 't teasing
I 'd tear the whole world apart if you asked me to

I remember divine intervention looking something like this
There was terror in a room, and then a moment of bliss
And a confusion about what to do suddenly became crystal clear
I grew eyes in the back of my head, and a new kind of vision appeared

I waited just for you, but you 're leaving
Don 't you think I wanted to? I wasn 't teasing
Everything 's on loan, and overdue
Can 't leave good enough alone, but I'll try again if you ask me to

I look down on my knees
A string of bad decisions, well, joke's on me
Your words repeat over and over in my mind
The same thing happens every time
Only now, we 're all being dragged behind

I waited just for you, but you 're leaving
Don 't you think I wanted to? I wasn 't teasing
Everything 's on loan, and overdue can 't
Leave good enough alone, so I 'll stay gone this time if you ask me to