This circus is falling down on its knees
  The big top is crumbling down
  It's raining in Baltimore fifty miles east
  Where you should be, no one's around
  
  I need a phone call
  I need a raincoat
  I need a big love
  I need a phone call
  
  These train conversations are passing me by
  Ans I don't have nothing do say
  You get what you pay for
  But I just had no intention of living this way
  
  I need a call
  I need a plane ride
  I need a sunburn
  I need a raincoat
  
  And I get no answers
  And I don't get no change
  It's raining iin Baltimore, baby
  But everything else is the same
  
  There's things I remember and things I forget
  I miss you
  I guess that I sholud
  Three thousand five hundred miles away
  But what would you change if you could?
  
  I need a phone call
  Maybe I should buy a new car
  I can always hear a freight train
  If I listen real hard
  And I wish it was a small world
  Because I'm lonely for the big towns
  I'd like to hear a little guitar
  I think it's time to put the top down
  
  I need a phone call
  I need a raincoat