Ronna Reeves - Collect From Wichita lyrics

(Neal Coty/Randy Vanwarmer)

It's rainin' cats and dogs

At a diner outside Wichita

Out of money, our of breath

Somewhere in the great midwest

It ain't like you'll walk through that door

A thousand miles from Baltimore

But if you did you'd understand

I'm drowning in this promise land

This time I've spent I've just been driftin'

And I ain't got nothin' left

Yeah, I've been bent and twisted

Into this state of helplessness

My back is up against the wall

Hopin' that you'll take my call

Collect from Wichita

Left Austin road in a cloud of dust

Screaming blind and furious

Splinters in my hands and feet

From pieces of our broken dreams

This time I've spent I've just been driftin'

And I ain't got nothin' left

Yeah, I've been bent and twisted

Into this state of helplessness

My back is up against the wall

Hopin' that you'll take my call

Collect from Wichita

I hear that cold dial tone

I've got my heart on hold

Voice says will you take this call

Collect from Wichita

This time I've spent I've just been driftin'

And I ain't got nothin' left

Yeah, I've been bent and twisted

Into this state of helplessness

My back is up against the wall

Hopin' that you'll take my call

Collect from Wichita