i called to say i love you
about a hundred times
however
what it cost
was more than just a dime

standing at the payphone
i told myself i would
tell you all the things
i never really thought i could
like the way i love your smile
how you laugh
and how you sing
the way you make me feel
so i tell you everything
my secrets and my faults
my hopes and all my dreams
sometimes i think of us
is it not really what it seems?

"i called to say i love you
and you didn't know it then
but now i tell u things
how i felt it there and then"

you didn't speak a word
so i hung up the phone
sitting in the bus station
crying all alone

the bell rang from the door
tears falling from my eyes
i looked up from within my hands
had all i thought was true,
truly been a lie?

but there he ran to me
"i came to say i love you,
and i've waited for the time
because the truth is, darling
i want to call you mine"

he knelt there down before me
from his pocket there he had
an opened small black box
the tears now all but sad

"you called to say you love me
but here now we are
i love you more than all the world,
the moon and all the stars"

and so i answered yes
and he kissed me like i'd dreamed
the truth was written on our hearts
it was always as it seemed