Lyric Who Names The Hurricanes
(Prince/Cambra)
Wongo Songo/BMI/
Gazworks/ASCAP
All along the lighthouse reef
the turmoil sweeps in the soil and weeps its beef
with a lack of warning--Hey you
Can t you read the signs
Cartwheeling reams of trees
They sound their dreams as they whistle by
This weather uncaged--destroy
Mother of Troy an ancient god
descends upon the land
and backhands the once serene
Sound their dreams as they whistle by
She s all the rage
Who names the hurricanes
Who mops up the sea and rings out
the devil in a torn dress
What will they name her
What will she call him
Whirlwind of a woman--this defiant one
who knows no sympathy for the weak
She turns her other cheek
To my feeble plea
and my destiny
She s all the rage
Who names the hurricanes
Call it Catherine
Dash with a flash in the pan
Or Constance
with hell bent fury on man
Try David
He s a classic machismo
Gail suits a catastrophic swipe of a steel brush
Hush--hush
She writes history and leaves no mystery
As the wane moon unfolds and spills the hearts of a
thousand beaus on ones who came before
Who comes from a dead hot fog
straight outta Hermuda
Like a colossal electric shaver
clipping a billion trees
transporting exotic birds to unfamiliar surrounds
You resign to read the signs
Up go the dread red flags
Who s to blame
What s in a name
She s all the rage
Who names the hurricanes
What s in a name and who s to blame
You can t resist these winds of fame
Dub it Diana--eye at the quiet core and more
Jeannie--a soft warm breeze til she sneeze
Unearthing Eva--you musta believa
Hunkraven Hannah--has spumed yo face
Alexandria--black browed savage grace
Shirley burley bannana fanna fo fury
Roxanne--the gusty tramp turns the sun into a sickly orb
I m amped!
Madeline s the name they call the torrents of rain
that maul my brain--she s insane!
Cyclone Gladys--the goddess oh so maddess
Typhoon June s the tag they put on a force
such as this
Who would name a storm Bruce
Only one whose ass is lose
Calling Camille--her howling hazards of late ravage
the ground like an atom bomb
Hugo--you go boy!
Hurricane Roy-oy oy!
Big Bertha--have mertha
Wongo Songo/BMI/
Gazworks/ASCAP
All along the lighthouse reef
the turmoil sweeps in the soil and weeps its beef
with a lack of warning--Hey you
Can t you read the signs
Cartwheeling reams of trees
They sound their dreams as they whistle by
This weather uncaged--destroy
Mother of Troy an ancient god
descends upon the land
and backhands the once serene
Sound their dreams as they whistle by
She s all the rage
Who names the hurricanes
Who mops up the sea and rings out
the devil in a torn dress
What will they name her
What will she call him
Whirlwind of a woman--this defiant one
who knows no sympathy for the weak
She turns her other cheek
To my feeble plea
and my destiny
She s all the rage
Who names the hurricanes
Call it Catherine
Dash with a flash in the pan
Or Constance
with hell bent fury on man
Try David
He s a classic machismo
Gail suits a catastrophic swipe of a steel brush
Hush--hush
She writes history and leaves no mystery
As the wane moon unfolds and spills the hearts of a
thousand beaus on ones who came before
Who comes from a dead hot fog
straight outta Hermuda
Like a colossal electric shaver
clipping a billion trees
transporting exotic birds to unfamiliar surrounds
You resign to read the signs
Up go the dread red flags
Who s to blame
What s in a name
She s all the rage
Who names the hurricanes
What s in a name and who s to blame
You can t resist these winds of fame
Dub it Diana--eye at the quiet core and more
Jeannie--a soft warm breeze til she sneeze
Unearthing Eva--you musta believa
Hunkraven Hannah--has spumed yo face
Alexandria--black browed savage grace
Shirley burley bannana fanna fo fury
Roxanne--the gusty tramp turns the sun into a sickly orb
I m amped!
Madeline s the name they call the torrents of rain
that maul my brain--she s insane!
Cyclone Gladys--the goddess oh so maddess
Typhoon June s the tag they put on a force
such as this
Who would name a storm Bruce
Only one whose ass is lose
Calling Camille--her howling hazards of late ravage
the ground like an atom bomb
Hugo--you go boy!
Hurricane Roy-oy oy!
Big Bertha--have mertha
