This Tornado Loves You

My love, I am the speed of sound

I left them motherless, fatherless

Their souls dangling inside-out from their mouths

But it's never enough

I want you

I carved your name across three counties

And 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

Sixty-five miles wide

But still you are nowhere, still you are nowhere

Nowhere in sight

Come out to meet me, run out to meet me

Come into the light

Climb the boxcars to the engine

Through the smoke and to the sky

Your rails have always outrun mine, so I

Picked them up and crashed them down

In a moment close to now

Cause I miss, I miss, 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 dangling 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

What will make you believe me?