This circus is falling down on its knees

The big top is crumbling down

It's raining in Baltimore, fifteen 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, baby, if I listen real hard

And I wish, I wish it was a small world

Because I'm lonely for the big towns

I'd like to hear a little guitar, I guess it's time to put the top down

I need a phone call, I need a raincoat

I really need a raincoat; I really, really need a raincoat

I really, really, really need a raincoat; I really need a raincoat