Storm Warning

No Fear

Rivetin' worldwinds grippin' the world
women and children wait a minute we're all in jeopardy [x2]
And the rain's incessant prattle
Rides restless in the saddle,
To the land of a million horses power trotting, hear their patterin' [x2]
The rains incessant prattle
marches on & on & on & on & on & on & on & on
Check it
It began at sea
Three cross currents concurrently
Started turning, creatin' the mother of all tempests to be
Enter precipitation and ionization
The cloud cover hovered 'round 2000 feet
Then sendin' swiftly to meet the ocean's wave peaks
Along the jet stream bars of fog
Sparkin', rollin', and pourin' needles of rain
Thunderin' like God's bowlin' lane
Crashin' and clappin', the master craftsmen
Passionately expressing his anger and his angst
With flashes n rains
Insanity unfastening, irrationally lashing out
Fashioning from his majestic means
Patterns and waves gravity couldn't tame
Battering seas with seas the skies were stained
The light light bang of lightning veins
Brought in gray clouds with frayed silk, then fade
Devastatin'
Devastatin'
Devastation
The dark, thick, bulbous, cumulus
Looked more like swabs of cotton in a charcoal dip
Stretched across all four tips of the horizon
Yet its movement was swift
But then there seemed to be a shift
The squall paused... with and oddness and a stillness that felt...
Ominous
Now if the storm was the servant under the earth's surface
The con-gregation was stirrin'
Nervous', swellin', like a serpent
Turning
Like a burning furnace yearning
It was churnin', perturbed
And quite determined to be heard
So the ocean floor... burst
The earthquake... emerged
And it formed a network of corridors
Which made the earth porous,
The force urge forth, the surf roar
And the stormin surf above
it assumed the same course
Now as the rain poured waters
the basin tore its corners
And they both aimed toward the Northern California shore
And as the wind whispered warning, the ground hinted authority
The longshoremen leaned forward oars, lowered corneas
Quadrupled in proportion he was floored by his formal introduction
To the forthcoming force!
Devastatin'
Rivetin' worldwinds grippin' the world
women and children wait a minute we're all in jeopardy [x4]
And the rain's incessant prattle
Rides restless(?) in the saddle,
to the land of a million horses power trotting, hear their patterin' (x4)
That afternoon the appetite of the catastrophe beast cooled
Began by snacking on the panoramic view, the population of people
Every single house so feeble in the mouth of the storm
The needle of the richter scale teetered and trembled
So beautifully warm
Picturesque hale shot through the windowsill
The glass splinters sailed through the innards of little children
Waitin' for dinner, they entered and exited
The earth split like dry flesh and then engulfed two whole blocks
The roofs blew off like screw off tops
The school for the arts, the schooner docks
Plus huge supermarkets and all its human contents
Uprooted and scooped on top like Duplo blocks
Now few alive to announce the true accounts, what really amounts
To rumour mills spouted huge amounts of dollar damage
The doom, the trials, the tribulations
Who could do without the balance between life and total devastation
Everything around you shakin' and you quakin'
And you feel the rockin' of the foundation
This madness slanted vibrations
And down you go, your mind's been slowed around you so
Dishes flying out of their kitchen cabinet door
A few crashin' when they smash in the windows
That's when you recognize
The warrin' isn't just the terror in your eyes
Or fear between your ears
It's thunder and the rumblin', is it all over you're now wonderin'
That's when the telephone pole rips through the roof
And adds a wide stake through your living room
Nature's heavy burden is now passed on to you
Your world heaves and pulls, you watch the house next door
Swallowed by a sinkhole, it's out of control, whoa
Rivetin' worldwinds grippin' the world
women and children wait a minute we're all in jeopardy [x2]
The wind brought the rain
The rain cleared the lane for the quake
And still made room for more rockin'
The quake shook the state, the state took the bait
Then sank, but still made room for more rockin'... [echo]
It's like the bible says, the final days, the tidal waves
The earthquakes, the storm that breaks, simultaneously
Smack the landmass, borderin'
Californ-i-a
The pourin' rain, the smoke and flames
The earth a-gapin', open-ing
From growin' pains
The broken mains regurgitating all in vapour,
Pain
Your orphan daughter scream in vain
The block became rectangular lakes
Some people grievin', neighborhoods that hydroplane
Heavy breathin', kept repeatin'
Passengers, and everybody trying to escape
On half a tank
Hearts palpitatin', valves breakin', Cal state, fault lines, open wide
We fall flyin', clothesline
Behind us a car, blindsided by a semi
Fallin', cascadin', golden gate girders, hollowin' you
Spiralin' into the hemorrhagin' fall
Devastatin'
Devastation