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... 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   *And* 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*