Cyclone Tracy

[kozmikdave]

Just when your life is calming down
She arrives on your doorstep from out of the blue.
You ask her in and you’re wishing you hadn’t
But you couldn’t turn away a woman so lost.
Your soul would never bear the cost

Wheels into your life after many long years
And you see that she is really just the same.
Last time you saw her you swore it was over.
She’d never get within your range.
You know the feeling - something strange.

Cyclone Tracy is back in town.
Everyone is running for cover.
She takes you up then she brings you down,
Storm from hell but devil lover.*

Sitting there waiting for impending storms.
A word out of place and it starts again -
The smashing, the shredding and leaving in pieces.
She’s reaching ten on the Beaufort Scale.
Gale force winds destroying your sail.

Cyclone Tracy is back in town.
Everyone is running for cover.
She’s blowing hot, and then she’s blowing cold,
Storm from hell but devil lover.*



*original line - "But she can be one hell of a lover."

[twoleftfeet]

Dave,

This sounds like a real rocker to me - I can imagine Richard Thompson
doing it.
Nothing to crit, except "BeauforT".

Nice one
Geoff

[cameron]

Kosmik,

This is a fine idea for a song lyric. However, I did think "one hell of a lover" was rather cliched. I'm sure you could improve on this.

I suffered similar storm damage many years ago:

http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/poemsbycam ... 0Blow.html

Cheers
Cam

[Jester]

Dave

I like this one and, like Cam, I've suffered the battering these whirlwinds can bring.......in fact I felt like I must have a magnetic pull for the nutters for a few years, but as you say " But she can be one hell of a lover" . I think millions will relate to this well.

Mick.

[kozmikdave]

Gidday

Thanks for the positives. And Geoff, fancy picking the spelling of Beaufort out like that. I'm supposed to know that. I wonder how many kids I've destroyed by telling them it is the "Beauford" scale for all those years. Good one!

Cameron, I really liked the Fen poem - similar tale. Cyclone Tracy was a huge storm that decimated Darwin in the 70's. Since then every Tracy in Aus gets tagged with the nickname, especially if she is volatile. The "hell of a lover" cliche, could be changed but I've been wracking(?) my brain for alternatives. The best I can do is "Storm from hell but devil lover" and that sounds corny too. What do you think? It's growing on me!

Cheers
Dave

[barrie]

'Demon lover' might be better. The Devil's supposed to be male, isn't he?

'Storm from hell and a demon lover' - Sounds darker.

Barrie