Dancing With The Tornado

Annie has them tombstone teeth

And a stare so warm it could melt the snow

Skin as dark as the river bed

Hair pulled back tight like a violin bow

She loves the sound of rain

'Cause she says it makes her feel just like a child

She goes out walking in her sleep

Every night the wind starts blowing wild

Then round and round my bed it goes

She’s dancing with the tornado again

She digs the rhythm

She digs the feel of all that debris frying round

Spinning in a nightmare slumber

Till she falls back down to the ground

I bought her twine and a knitting needle

I bought her soft white

But none of that made any difference

Well, really how can it compare

Then you want to hear that sound

When my bed is spinning round

You wanna hear that sound

When my bed is spinning round and round

She hits the ground

When though by night she may seem peculiar

When you would not know it by the day

She keeps to herself at the town meetings

With never a bad word to say

So when last month she gave me a totem

When it took me by surprise

There must be something in the water

'Cause she got that same strange look in her eyes

Now round and round my bed it goes

Where she’s going we all know

She’s dancing with the tornado again

Then you wanna hear that sound

As my bed is spinning round

You wanna hear that sound

As my bed is spinning round and round

She hits the ground

She hits the ground

She hits the ground

She hits the ground