The Lubbock Tornado (I don't know)
Terry Allen, The Panhandle Mystery Band
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It come in from the southwest
In the middle of the night
A loon over Lubbock
What a God-darn mighty sight
It dipped down into the darkness
All crazy out of control
It throwed around that Panhandle town
Till it couldn't throw it around no more
Some blame secret government project
Some blame darn president
Some blame wind from wings of Jesus
And flapping round heaven sent
Yeah but I don't know
(He don't know)
I don't know
(He don't know)
They don't know
When the high pressure zone hits the low
Some gotta give, yeah, some gotta go
Like a vampire over the Broadway
Show new moral code
It take out a mighty church of God
And leave a hungry one by the road
Tiny creatures went flying
Right up prairie dog town
Smack up against a great plains life
Little bones in the rain falling down
Some blame communist sabotage
Some blame rednecks on the right
Some blame teenage restlessness
A rock and roll karma circling the night
Yeah but I don't know
(It's a UFO)
I don't know
(It's a UFO)
They don't know
When the high pressure zone hits the low
Some gotta give, yeah, some gotta go
Well, it's the hubba upon the hub
That laid the city to its knees
Sweet memories beneath the rubble
Shattered glass and broken dreams
Yeah but in that wake of destruction
This blazing battered town
Pulled its ass up out of the debris
And put its feet back up on the ground
Some said it was the ghost of Buddy
Some said the ghost of Cain
Some said the soul of the prodigal son
Had just stumbled back a-home again
Yeah but I don't know
(It's a tornado)
I don't know
(It's a tornado)
Maybe so
When the high pressure zone hits the low
Some gotta give, ah, some gotta go