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 And I don’t have nothing to say You get what you pay for               But I just had no intention of living this way     I need a phone 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 in Baltimore baby     But everything else is the same There’s things I remember and things I forget I miss you   I guess that I should 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