Lubbock Tornado Lyrics - Terry Allen

Well it come in from the southwest 

In the middle of the night 

Hey loomed over Lubbock 

What a gawd awmighty sight 

Yeah it dipped down into the darkness 

All crazy out of control 

Hey throwed around that panhandle town 

Till ft couldn't throw ft around no more 

Yeah some blamed secret government 

Projects 

Some blamed it on the president 

Some blamed wind from the wings of Jesus 

Just flappin round heaven sent 

Yeah but I don know (he don't know) 

But I don't know (he don't know) 

They don't know ... huh huh 

But when a high pressure zone... 

Hits a low 

Somethin gotta give ... yeah somethin 

Gotta go 

An like a vampire over the broadway 

It showed no moral code 

It'd lake out a mighty church of gawd 

And leave a honky tonk by the road 

And tiny creatures went flying 

Right out of prairie dog town 

Smack up against the great plains life 

Little bones in the rain failin down 

Yeah some blamed communist sabotage 

Some blamed rednecks on the right 

Some blamed teenage restlessness 

Rock n roll gone berserk in the night 

Yeah but I don't know (it's a UFO) 

But I don't know (it's a UFO) 

They don't know ... huh 

But when a high pressure zone... 

Hits a low 

Somethin gotta give ... yeah somethin 

Gotta go 

Well this hub-bub on the hub 

Laid a city to its knees 

Sweet memories beneath the rubble 

Shattered glass and broken dreams 

Yeah but in that wake of destruction 

This dazed and battered town 

Pulled its ass up out of the debris 

And put its feet back up on the ground 

Yeah some said it was the ghost of 

Buddy 

Some said the ghost of Cain 

Some said the soul of the prodigal son 

Is just stumblin back home again 

Yeah but I don't know (Its a tornado) 

But I don't know (it's a tornado) 

Maybe so, huh 

But when a high pressure zone... 

Hits a low 

Some gotta give ahhhh... 

Some gotta go