Twister

Meg Hutchinson

There are whirlpools in the deep



Riptides on the shore and tornadoes in the drain



You know a bad one's coming when there's been a yellow rain



It's been a torrential kind of day







And the thunder is loud



If we don't get blown away first



We are sure to get drowned



There is hot air rising and doorknob clouds



Dorothy get out of here somehow



Find your dog and seek shelter underground or you'll go







Round and round, round and round and here we go again



What new news do you bring?



We've covered this ground before



Beaten this dead horse







You're the cat in my head, chasing it's tail



The Indy 500, colliding with the guardrail



I am a thousand revolving doors, a prisoner of centrifugal force



A galaxy orbiting a grey sun, trying, trying to move on...



Pinwheels, twisters, clockwork and trains



From the new verse we always, always go, back to the same refrain



From the need for comfort to the terror of change