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This Tornado Loves You Lyrics
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... carved your name across three counties ground it in with bloody hides their broken necks will line the ditch till you stop it stop it stop it stop it stop it stop this madness i want you... i have waited with a glacier's patience smashed every transformer with every trailer till nothing was standing sixty-five miles wide 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 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?
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02-25-2009
What a beautiful song! There is so much build up to the chorus at the end.
It finally happens and then the song ends.
It leaves me wanting so much more.
I noticed Neko Case has such an amazing way of keeping the listeners attention.
*Side note*
The new album is so good.
Listen to it on NPR. It's on their website until the release date, March 3rd.
02-27-2009
03-02-2009
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03-07-2009
hudsucker's point is well-taken; Neko IS smart and this song is an extension of her "I don't write love songs" attitude... but Neko's resistance, strangely, reinforces the metaphor... in love and, especially, in love songs, we like to think in metaphors.. so a straightforward interpretation of this song would a man who is running away from a destructive relationship, hiding from a crazy, obsessed woman
but taken literally, we get a picture of love that is absurdly comic: a funnel of wind searching for its love, who is in hiding.. then we think 'how is this possible? a tornado loves?' -- for we know what happens when we love it and "come into the light" to meet it: we are gone, vaporized or smashed up like the transformers and trailers... thus, love becomes a hunt, a tragically sad and empty one ("carved your name across three counties," the path of destruction "sixty-five miles wide")..
the agony of unrequited love fuels the tornado's chase, but this obsession ultimately reveals a relationship in flight ("your rails have always outrun mine"), an escape from love's entrapment and disintegration... by the end of the song, "he" is safe from harm, "still warm and breathing"; our pained heroine/tornado is left alone and crying "What will make you believe me?"
as soon as we begin to laugh at this, we realize we've been thinking in metaphors all along... (have we been conditioned into thinking in metaphors? -- the "nurture"?) to love a tornado, we have to be prepared to die with it -- right? .. but, love as death, as a tornado, is the very thing we resist, and run away from...
thus, love becomes "literal" in this song.. it IS Nature -- formidable, destructive, unrelenting as IS the cyclone's eye...
08-18-2009
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03-07-2009
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03-08-2009
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04-11-2009
I miss, I miss
the way you sigh yourself to sleep
when I breathe the springtime
across your cheek
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04-30-2009
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05-07-2009
It's "left THEM motherless."
And
"How you'd sigh yourself to sleep
when I'd rake the springsteen
across your sheets."
It is, in fact, a literal tornado - a love song from a tornado's point of view. On the one hand, it's a serial killer - raking a trail of destruction and death in its quest to find this woman, killing and destroying to impress her, or at least convince her he's really in love with her. On the other hand, he's just acting like a tornado is SUPPOSED to act. You can empathize with the tornado's pain and confusion with the way Neko sings that first "what will make you believe me" at the same time as it's scaring the hell out of you. Neko's voice and phrasing makes most of her songs work, but I can't always pin down what's going on in them, narrative-wise. This is an exception, and I can't imagine anyone will write a better song than this one this year.
05-07-2009
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06-10-2009
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...
Carved your name across three counties
Grounded in with bloody hydes
Their broken necks will line the ditch
Till you stop it
Stop it
Stop it
Stop it
stop it
Stop this madness
I want you...
I have waited with a glacier's patience
Smashed every transformer with every trailer
Till nothing was standing
Sixty-five miles wide
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, into 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 the 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
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?
06-10-2009
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06-11-2009
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06-15-2009
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06-18-2009
06-18-2009
All of the songs just end. Every time.
The reverb type on lead vocals does not match the rest of the parts.
There are other small peculiarities through the album.
OK, what is with the 20+ minutes of crickets/nature sounds?
It just goes on and on.
And if you listen to it carefully,
it's just the same sound clip over and over.
08-10-2009
yes, her songs follow atypical song structures, but that's one of the things that makes her music so good imo.
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08-18-2009
Also, I hear:
"I miss
I miss
How you'd sigh yourself to sleep
When I'd rake the springtime
Across't your sheets"
Minor difference, but much more poetic sounding, don'tcha think?
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09-02-2009
But the tornado is a clumsy way of killing people, which gives me the impression of the old testament
God, who was not opposed to 'Grounded in with bloody hydes' and 'smashed every transformer with every trailer till nothing was standing sixty-five miles wide'. God misses us and wants us back, but it turns out 'us' is personified as one person in particular. Also characteristic of the old testament God, as any one else who went to Sunday school will remember God had his favorites, namely David, who he loved above all others.
A heartbreaking song,
just my take on it.
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12-28-2009
the father of her children, but without this man, she cannot be the mother she should be. Now, I see a whole
different range of things it could be about. I don't know, lost on this one. Still love it, though! Amazing song.
I agree with the first comment: keeps you wanting more(:
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12-28-2009
the father of her children, but without this man, she cannot be the mother she should be. Now, I see a whole
different range of things it could be about. I don't know, lost on this one. Still love it, though! Amazing song.
I agree with the first comment: keeps you wanting more(:
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01-13-2010
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