[Verse 1] I missed you badly last night The way a stranger misses home After too many towns Too many nights alone The way July might miss the heat When winter comes too soon The trees were holding all that cold And I was holding you [Pre-Chorus] I wanted you beside me Not those stars above my head One stayed up and kept me company One said you’d gone instead [Chorus] Last night I heard you from somewhere far away I couldn’t tell if you were calling Or if my head had learned your voice Last night The palms were bending in the wind And every time the branches moved I thought I heard you once again Where do I call from? Where would you hear me now? Last night Last night [Verse 2] I sent a word across the water Knowing what the water does How many sailors sent one home That never made it back? I sent another with the morning birds They left like they knew where By evening they came home exhausted And you were still not there [Pre-Chorus] So I sat beneath the stars again With nothing left to send One stayed up and kept me company One told me how this ends [Chorus] Last night I heard you from somewhere far away I couldn’t tell if you were calling Or if my head had learned your voice Last night The palms were bending in the wind And every time the branches moved I thought I heard you once again Where do I call from? Where would you hear me now? Last night Last night [Instrumental Break] [acoustic guitar] [distant oud] [low strings] [Verse 3] I sang the songs you used to love Every one I could remember Pulled out pages we had written Back when we still wrote together I found the one we never finished And read it like you might appear I had a thousand things to tell you So I told the night instead [Bridge] The night was no help It only got longer I sang louder You got farther Then somewhere past the palms I heard you Not close Not clear But enough [Final Chorus] Last night I heard you from somewhere far away A little hurt inside your voice Like you still had something to say Last night The palms were crying in the wind I called your name into the dark And heard it coming back again Where do I call from? Where would you hear me now? Tell me where And I’ll call [Outro] Last night I heard you Or thought I did [pause] Last night.
