Oh hello, Mary Ann, how have you been?
This is me, your one time lover who said he didn't need a friend.
I just happened to think about you,
Thought I'd call you on the phone.
By the way is there someone with you?
I was hoping you'd be alone.
Cause I have tried to find the words that I could say to you,
But they all have a sound of a song that's out of tune.
I have tried a hundred times to find my way to you,
But the reasons they always came
Too late, the rhyme had left too soon.
All I can say is my world without you, is not what it appears.
And is it raining in New York City, like it's raining here?
That voice in the background, is it someone I should know?
If it's anyone who remembers me, be sure to say hello.
And how's your old friend Laura, and that guy she used to see?
It was written all over his face
Back then that he wished he could be me.
But I have tried to find the words that I could say to you,
But they all have a sound of a song that's out of tune.
I have tried a hundred times to find my way to you,
But the reasons they always came
Too late, the rhyme had left too soon.
All I can say is my world without you, is not what it appears.
And is it raining in New York City, like it's raining here?
Oh I put in the dime,
I thought that the time, could be erased somehow.
But that silence I hear,
It's making it clear oh I'm getting the picture now,
I'm getting it now.
And I have tried to find the words that I could say to you,
But they all have the sound of a song that's out of tune.
I have tried a hundred times to find my way to you,
But the reasons they always came too late, the rhyme it left too soon.
All I can say is my world without you, is not what it appears.
And is it raining in New York City, like it's raining here?