This Tornado Loves You

Album: Middle Cyclone (2009)
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  • My love, I am the speed of sound
    I left them motherless, fatherless
    Their souls they hang inside-out from their mouths
    But it's never enough

    I want you

    Carved your name across three counties
    Ground it in with bloody hides
    Their broken necks will line the ditch
    'Til you stop it, stop it
    Stop this madness

    I want you

    I have waited with a glacier's patience
    Smashed every transformer with every trailer
    'Til nothing was standing
    65 miles wide
    Still you are nowhere
    Still you are nowhere
    Nowhere in sight

    Come out to meet me
    Run out to meet me
    Come in to the light

    Climb the boxcars to the engine through the smoke into the sky
    Your rails have always outrun mine
    So I pick them up and crash them down
    In a moment close to now
    'Cause I miss, I miss, I miss, I miss, I miss
    I miss how you'd sigh yourself to sleep
    When I'd rake the springtime across your sheets

    My love, I am the speed of sound
    I left them motherless, fatherless
    Their souls they hang inside-out from their mouths
    But it's never enough

    My love
    I'm an owl on the sill in the evening
    But morning finds you
    Still warm and breathing

    This tornado loves you, this tornado loves you
    This tornado loves you, this tornado loves you
    This tornado loves you
    What will make you believe me?
    This tornado loves you, this tornado loves you
    This tornado loves you, this tornado loves you
    This tornado loves you
    What will make you believe me? Writer/s: Neko Case, Paul Rigby
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Peermusic Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • John from Los Angeles, CaThere are not enough songs about how overwhelming, and sometimes destructive, true love can be. One of her best.
  • Dave from Leesburg, VaI love how she says "Acrost your sheets" like a child might.
  • Theresa from Murfreesboro, TnThis song made me a Neko Case, gorgeous and haunting love song.
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