Call Me From the Other Side of Nowhere

Lyrics

Got a quarter and a dial tone, a dead-end desert town
Seven hundred miles from home and the sun is going down
You answered on the second ring, you said, "Where are you now?"
I said, "Past the end of everything, I'm not sure where or how"

You told me what the kids did and the dog got in the trash
The roof is leaking in the hall, and I laughed until I cracked
Funny how a voice can carry what the highway tries to steal
It's nothing but a telephone, it's the realest thing I feel

Call me from the other side of nowhere
I'll be here with the porch light on
Call me when the road gets long and lonesome
I'll stay up till the dawn
Tell me where you are and how the night is
Tell me what you see out there
Call me from the other side of nowhere
I'll be waiting, I'll be there

I hear the trucks go rolling by behind you on the line
I hear you cup the receiver and you breathe it out like wine
You say you're doing better, but you're running out of change
I say, "Just say my name, love, it never sounds strange"

Call me from the other side of nowhere
I'll be here with the porch light on
Call me when the road gets long and lonesome
I'll stay up till the dawn
Tell me where you are and how the night is
Tell me what you see out there
Call me from the other side of nowhere
I'll be waiting, I'll be there

A coin drops, a line clicks, a hundred miles collapse
Home is just a voice, and a voice is all it asks

Call me from the other side of nowhere
I'll be here with the porch light on
Call me when the road gets long and lonesome
I'll stay up till the dawn
Tell me where you are and how the night is
Tell me what you see out there
Call me from the other side of nowhere
I'll be waiting, I'll be there

Call me from the other side of nowhere
I'll be waiting, I'll be there