Neko Case, "This Tornado Loves You"

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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

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I want you

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I carved your name across three counties

ground it in with bloody hides

their broken necks will line the ditch 'til

you stop it, stop it

stop this madness

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I want you

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I have waited with a glacier’s patience

smashed every transformer with every trailer

'til nothing was standing

sixty-five miles wide

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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

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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

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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

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my love, I’m an owl on the sill in the evening

but morning finds you

still warm and breathing

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this tornado loves you

this tornado loves you

this tornado loves you

this tornado loves you

this tornado loves you

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what will make you believe me?