About The Song
Travis Tritt was an integral part of the country music with hits like “Here’s a Quarter, Call Someone Who Cares.” The Grammy Award-winning, Grand Ole Opry member, has had more success than most could ever dream of. Travis Tritt definitely has come a long way since his church choir days.
The song was released in 1991 when Tritt was still dreaming of being a country star while working a regular job and grieving over the demise of his second marriage. Little did he know that the song he played in concert on a whim one night would become one of his career’s biggest hits.
“Here’s a Quarter, Call Someone Who Cares” was released as the lead-off single to his album It’s All About to Change. The song peaked at No. 2 in both the United States and Canada, becoming one of Tritt’s most popular songs.
Written by Travis Tritt himself, “Here’s a Quarter, Call Someone Who Cares” sings of a former lover who regrets leaving him, and now wants to come back in his life once again. However, the song’s main character no longer trusts her because of her actions.
In response, he gives her a quarter and tells her to phone someone else who cares to listen.
“Call someone who’ll listen, or might give a damn. Maybe one of your sorted affairs. But don’t you come ’round here handin’ me none of your lies. Here’s a quarter, call someone who cares,” the song goes. It was during a time when the population was still putting quarters into payphones to make phone calls.
During Tritt’s interview with The Boot in 2017, he detailed how the song was written during some hard times following his second divorce. Out in the middle of the day, Tritt came home to an empty house. Everything was basically gone, leaving him with one or two pieces of furniture his wife had left behind.
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Lyrics
You say you were wrong, to ever leave me alone
Now you’re sorry, you’re lonesome and scared
And you say you’d be happy, if you could just come back home
Well here’s a quarter, call someone who caresCall someone who’ll listen and might give a damn
Maybe one of your sordid affairs
But don’t you come ’round here handin’ me none of your lines
Here’s a quarter, call someone who caresWell I thought what we had, could never turn bad
So your leavin’ caught me unaware
But the fact is you’ve run, girl that can’t be undone
So here’s a quarter, call someone who caresCall someone who’ll listen and might give a damn
Maybe one of your sordid affairs
But don’t you come ’round here handin’ me none of your lines
Here’s a quarter, call someone who caresYeah here’s a quarter, call someone who cares