The circus is falling down on its knees,
Big top is crumbling down,
It's raining in Baltimore, 50 miles east,
where you should be noones around.

I need a phonecall.
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 day.
You get what you pay for,
But I just had no intention of living this way.

I need a phonecall.
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 guessed 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,
Cos 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.