Eye Of The Hurricane Lyrics
the switch is on
The night is warm
the cops are gone,
the rocket bike is all her own
it's called a hurricane.
it's shaped so there's this place inside
where if you're moving you can hide
safe within the rain.
but there's nowhere that she can go.
Nowhere the pain won't come again
but she can hide
hide in the pouring rain.
She rides the eye of a Hurricane.
explain to me
how you got this need for speed."
She laughed, said "It might just be
the next best thing to love."
Hope is gone, she confessed
that when you lay your dream to rest
you can get what's second best
but it's hard to get enough.
but there's nowhere that she can go.
Nowhere the pain won't come again
but she can hide
hide in the pouring rain.
She rides the eye of a Hurricane.
so fast last night
Racing by--
a flash of light.
the street was dark
the shining truck she
thought was parked
it blocked her path
stopped her heart
but not the Hurricane.
She saw her chance to
slip the trap
there was just the room to
pass and back but
then it moved
closed the gap.
She never felt the pain.
but there's nowhere that she can go.
Nowhere the pain won't come again
but she can hide
hide in the pouring rain.
She rides the eye of a Hurricane.
this song is really something...I can relate to in from several different periods of my life (I was born 9/5/1985). When I was 17 I was really caught up in the whole "Fast & the Furious" Induced Street Racing world...I was driving a 1995 Honda Del Sol vtec, & on August 19, 2003 within five minutes after 10PM, I crashed while in a street race...I accelerating hard over 90 mph, my opponent in a Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX was pushing about 60 mph & I passed him FAST. Lost control...& had no idea what happened until some time after I came out of the over two month long Coma & I sustained so much brain injury that teams of doctors at Mass General Hospital said that I wouldn't come out of the coma...Just over 3-Years later, I Drive a '74 Chevelle SS, I been kicked out of 2 colleges because of behavior, an in court at least once every 2 & 1/2 months for a new charge of some kind, & I haven't felt what it's like to be over 18 & NOT on Probation yet....Life aint fair...but oh what a ride, huh?
My dad listened to this song a lot when I was a little girl. I remember this one night in the kitchen just listening to it...It was back when my parents were still together and we lived as one big family in my old neighborhood and I was about 6 or 7 and nothing mattered. I'm not quite sure what this song is really about but to me every time I hear it I want to cry and it reminds me of how we surround ourselves with something fierce so we can hide in it.
@bigducky "Something so fierce we can hide in it". Indeed. Well said. 17 years later but on the off chance read this, I hope things went smooth for you and you had a life of years free from tears.
@bigducky "Something so fierce we can hide in it". Indeed. Well said. 17 years later but on the off chance read this, I hope things went smooth for you and you had a life of years free from tears.
Sorry, I am not in the loop, but I have been looking for this song for ages. And while the author may have intended it to be about addiction, I read it in terms of love, which actually may also be addiction.
"Hope is gone, she confessed that when you lay your dream to rest you can get what's second best but it's hard to get enough."
The only thing I've wanted out of life is to love and be loved (yes, by the same person), but I just turned 41 and I haven't had a boyfriend for 15 years. I get crazier with every failed pseudo-relationship and everywhere I look I am reminded that I am now an obsolete model.
There is no second best for love, no Silver Medal. It's all or nothing, and I've got nothing left to lose. So for me this song is about a chick finally coming to terms with (for whatever reason) her ineligibility to be loved. And deciding on a suicidal-daredevil path. Like someone in Vegas with one last chip playing damn roulette.
Still, just me.
@Superx3000 I know this response comes late but I hope you have found a love that reciprocates to the fullest. It takes time. My fiance passed in 2014 and the hollow is still here but I still have hope to find love again. Hope is the key word that keeps us afloat.
@Superx3000 I know this response comes late but I hope you have found a love that reciprocates to the fullest. It takes time. My fiance passed in 2014 and the hollow is still here but I still have hope to find love again. Hope is the key word that keeps us afloat.
@Superx3000 a decade and a half later, but I'm here to tell you you're not wrong. It's also subjective, so intensely personal. I think you and I are about the same vintage, and I hope things are smooth out for you. I hope you found the person you wanted or the strength and courage and acceptance to be OK without them. & I wish the same and a life of years free from tears for Timmorn Yellow Eyes who replied 10 months ago... strength & courage brother, this howl is for your love mate and lifemate-to-be taken too soon. Ayooah!
@Superx3000 a decade and a half later, but I'm here to tell you you're not wrong. It's also subjective, so intensely personal. I think you and I are about the same vintage, and I hope things are smooth out for you. I hope you found the person you wanted or the strength and courage and acceptance to be OK without them. & I wish the same and a life of years free from tears for Timmorn Yellow Eyes who replied 10 months ago... strength & courage brother, this howl is for your love mate and lifemate-to-be taken too soon. Ayooah!
Terrific song that works on so many levels. Our lives are so subjective, it means different things for different folks sometime several things at the same time. Least that's the way it is for me. Sometimes it's about the thrill of riding a crotch rocket. Sometimes it's about the darkness staring back at you. Sometimes it's about the weariness and the wishing that it would just end... Whatever it means to you, I take my cue from V & John Donne, & I wish you strength & courage, I love you even though I've never met you because I am part of humanity, & every last diminishes us.
this song is definatly in my top ten of all time favorite songs. the lyrics are amazing, this song almost makes me cry every time i hear it. He says its about drug addiction, which is sad in and of itself. The girl is jsut going too fast for him, and eventually he gets addicted, starts going too fast, and the sadness in finding that person that you can never have nt becasue they won't have you but because they'll destroy you. and having to know what you have to do.
i love this song, it always brings back memories for me. Its such a great stop-and-think song, the lyrics are so moving.
Wilcox has said in concert, "This song is about addiction, and about how something which feels so good can do you damage." He has also said it is about how addiction can block you from joy. "You can get what's second best, but it's hard to get enough." That's artistic understatement -- actually it's impossible to get enough. You cannot fill the hole inside you by using any sensation, however pleasurable.
in a recent concert I asked David what the song was about Yes part of it is about addiction but the other part is about a tragic event in his life he was riding his motor cycle with a couple buddies who were also on motorcycles one of the friends accidentally rode his bike off the road this friend was not hut once they got the bike back to the road one of the friends rode his bike down the hill and came back one of his friends crashed his bike into a truck tragically the close friend was killed instantly upon impact when the bike was crashed