Tornadoes

The clouds started forming at five o'clock pm

The funnel clouds touched down

Five miles north of Russellville

Sirens were blowing, clouds spat rainAnd as the things came through, it sounded like a train

"It came without no warning" said Bobbi Jo McLean

She and husband Nolen always loved to watch the rain

It sucked him out the window, he ain't come home again

All she can remember is "It sounded like a train"

Pieces of that truck stop, litter up the highway, I been told

And I hear that missing trucker ended up in Kansas

(or maybe it was Oz)

The Nightmare Tour ended for my band and me

The night all the shit went down

A homecoming concert, the night the tornadoes hit my hometown

The few who braved the weather were sucked out of the auditorium

I can still remember the sound of their applause in the rain

As it echoed through them storm clouds, I swear, it sounded like a train