Ellis Paul - Tornado Girl! Lyrics
Sandy has seen a tornado more times than shes seen the grateful dead...She lives in oklahoma,Where the storms come prairie fed,And the numbers keep on mounting,Its been twenty times and countingThat shes been in the path ofSplintered trees and twisted leadThat connect the dots between trailer parksWith destruction thats painted blood redAnd now she wants to chase them,With me, in my honda civic,Well keep a safe distance.I say, give me an instanceWhere safety is mileage specific...Okemah is where the last one touched down,(thats woody guthries old home town) and,(as if it would turn me around)She starts singing this land is your landI say, ok, you win.....terrific.Now, Ive never been to see somethingThat I wished wasnt even there,Though Ive heard that said of dentists,And with inlaws, and from victims of the electric chairBut there I was, heading east on 44,Getting pelted by hailstones the size of barn doorsSo, of course, none of them were missing..It was as if God was keeping score,And the heavens were thundering their approval...Thats when I suggested our hasty removalJust a mile down the road, this rain of hailstones ceasedAnd a vaacuum of silence brought a turbulent peace....The clouds started dancing, dressed up in taffeta greenAnd enveloped the sky in a jungle party theme--There they gave birth to a barbed-wire windSandy was frozen, her face had a maniacal grin,A funnel cloud came roaring, cast down from the skyLike the knife of the devil but twenty stories high!Sandy broke from the car in a mad, desperation runTo touch her sole fixation, this wheel where death was spun,And I could do but nothing, my heart came so undoneFor the host of twenty tornadoes,Who died with twenty-one...
