Life, Love, and Everything In Between

Raining In Baltimore - The Counting Crows

This circus is falling down on its knees
The big top is crumbling down
Its raining in baltimore fifty miles east
Where you should be, no ones 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 dont 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 dont get no change
Its raining in baltimore, baby
But everything else is the same

Theres 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 Im lonely for the big towns
Id like to hear a little guitar
I think its time to put the top down

I need a phone call
I need a raincoat


-Now i'll comment on this song. I think its my new favorite song. The Circus metaphor is great. The circus/bigtop i feel is representative of his life, and rain represents life and its stresses. He misses his girl, and longs for just that phonecall. He wishes the world was smaller so that they could be together. I assume he's in Baltimore, and she's in California (i assume california cus that where the Counting Crows are from...)

posted by That Canadian Guy @ 3:49 p.m.