What Were The Chances

This is mostly wrong, and since we can't send in corrections anymore, I'll just hope one of the admins see this:

When I left you alone To fight your battles of long winters In hotels, what went through your mind? How is it that you made it? How is it that you noticed?

It wasn't me who was Looking at you through Foggy glass Or windows, it was them

I was out in Coolidge with my head on a counter Drinking down my chances to ever return (To anyone) To anyone

No I wasn't faking it The hurt I felt was real and all that was holy Just slowly disappeared but just appeared In parking lots And truck stops

The blinking lights (The blinking lights) Now I'm sinking you How the hell did I get here?

Does your husband know I call you sweetheart? Does he know that I call you ...? It's not like you're cheating We're only meeting in motels and not your home (It's not like we're cheating We're only meeting in hotels and not your home)

Would you change your last name to mine? (Would you change your last name to mine?)

I think my kids would mind I think my kids would mind

I was in the desert waving planes and burning phonebooks to a tune That was famous the year I was born Do not leave me dancing alone (Do not leave me dancing alone, pick up the phone and call me lover) Pick up the phone Call me lover (Say, "Come and get me, I am home") I am home

Please pick up the phone Please pick up the phone

The meaning is pretty clear, except for the first two parts. Everything after is a man metaphorically stuck in a desert and him asking this woman that he's had an affair with not to abandon him, but to join him in his solitude and dance with him (or, make the best of it).

I think it's a bit more than asking her to join him. The line "Would you change your last name to mine" is asking her to marry him. I think it's possibly one of the best lines Damiens ever written. It's so perfectly understated and yet far more romantic than any grand overblown gesture.

I must have been having a really bad ear day - I was wellllllll off! Changed.

I wish I couldn't relate to the desperation in "do not leave me dancing alone... pick up the phone"