Album: Blake Shelton (2001)

Charted: 18

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• She left without leavin' a number
  Said she needed to clear her mind
  He figured she'd gone back to Austin
  'Cause she talked about it all the time
  It was almost a year before she called him up
  Three rings and an answering machine is what she got
  
  If your callin' 'bout the car, I sold it
  If this is Tuesday night, I'm bowlin'
  If you've got somethin' to sell your wastin' your time, I'm not buyin'
  If it's anybody else wait for the tone you know what to do
  And P.S., if this is Austin, I still love you
  
  The telephone fell to the counter
  She heard but she couldn't believe
  What kind of man would hang on that long
  What kind of love that must be
  She waited three days and then she tried again
  She didn't know what she'd say
  But she heard three rings and then
  
  If it's Friday night, I'm at the ball game
  And first thing Saturday, if it don't rain
  I'm headed out to the lake and I'll be gone all weekend long
  But I'll call you back when I get home on Sunday afternoon
  And P.S., if this is Austin, I still love you
  
  Well, this time she left her number
  But not another word
  Then she waited by the phone on Sunday evening
  And this is what he heard
  
  If your callin' 'bout my heart, it's still yours
  I should have listened to it a little more
  Then it wouldn't have taken me so long
  To know where I belong
  And by the way, boy, this is no machine your talkin' to
  Can't you tell, this is Austin, and I still love you
  
  I still love you Writer/s: David Kent, Kirsti Manna
  Publisher: KIRSTI MANNASONGS, TALBOT MUSIC PUBLISHING, INC.
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

• Larry Brown from Houston, TxThis "songfacts" entry forms part of a continuing string of recent coincidences in my life. A few days ago I found myself in Houston's airport with all day to kill. I toured the terminals and browsed the book section in various gift shops, looking for any book from Nora Ephron. "You've got mail," by Nora Ephron and starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, is my favorite movie and I'd like to read some of Nora's work. No luck, and I found that all the airport gift shops carried the same small selection of titles. One of those was "Is she really going out with him" by popular British author Sophie Cousens. I didn't really notice it, but since I saw it ten times after browsing ten gift shops, the title stuck in my head. When I got home Youtube randomly suggested a live Carpenters concert to me, The Carpenters being my lifelong favorite group and Youtube knows that. I watched the video, skipping through it haphazardly, and I almost fainted when, during the introduction to "Don't they know it's the end of the world," one of the group members said "Is she really going out with him?" That was such a far-fetched coincidence that I was forced to interpret it as a sign from God, something I don't tend to do. What is the sign telling me to do? Well...I guess buy and read that book. Trips to two Walgreens and then Walmart did not turn up the book, and today while I was on the phone on some unrelated business this song played on the music on hold, and I jotted down a little of the lyric so I could look it up later. I left home and went to Barnes & Noble Booksellers, a store after which was patterned the "Fox & Sons" bookstore in "You've got mail." I found the Sophie Cousens book, bought it, sat down in the coffee shop similar to the one in Fox & Sons, and started reading at page zero. I literally (almost) fainted when I found that in the forward to the book was a quote from Nora Ephron: "Be the heroine in your own story. Don't be a continual victim." The content of that quote may be relative to my life, but the germane point is that I was looking for a Nora Ephron book, God directed me to buy an apparently unrelated book, and in it was Nora Ephron. When I got home I used the lyrics I had scrawled earlier and looked up "Austin" on Youtube. I first listened to just the song and loved it. Then I watched the video and loved it. I loved it so much I came here to SongFacts to look it up, whereupon I find that the producer thinks the song is similar to a Nora Ephron movie. (When he references Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, he is referring to one of both of "Sleepless in Seattle," or "You've got mail," both by Nora Ephron. God is trying to get my attention, and He has succeeded!
• AnonymousI've always loved this song!! Still prefer it over some of his new ones.:)

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