Wicked Wind of the Hurricane v.1

 

Dateline Galveston: Tropical Storm Alicia, the first named storm

of the 1983 Atlantic hurricane season, formed Monday in the

north central Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast.

The storm, with highest sustained winds of 45 mph

was drifting to the west at six miles per hour.

Conditions were said to be favorable for strengthening

and forecasters predicted that warnings could be required

for portions of the Texas coast today.

 

There’s a hurricane blowing in the Gulf tonight, I mean blowing and blowing and blowing

From a tropical wave in a single day she kept growing and growing and growing

And now she’s blowing at us, she’s blowing straight at us

 

As if she hated us she turned that wicked eye on us

Come to blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, blow us away

Come to blow our love away (Wicked wind of the hurricane)

 

There’s a hurricane blowing in the Gulf tonight, getting bigger and bigger and bigger

People running ‘round town trying to batten things down

Buying batteries and boarding up windows

And kicking up such a fuss, ‘cause she’s blowing straight at us

 

As if she hated us she turned that wicked eye on us

Come to blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, blow us away

Come to blow our love away (Wicked wind of the hurricane)

 

There’s a hurricane blowing in the Gulf tonight, now the tide is rising, rising

There’s a whip in the wind and a sting in the rain and the TV crews are arriving

They want to take pictures of us, ‘cause she’s blowing straight at us

 

As if she hated us she turned that wicked eye on us

Come to blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, blow us away

Come to blow our love away (Wicked wind of the hurricane)

 

Blow, blow, blow, blow, blow our love away

(Wicked wind, wicked wind of the hurricane)

Blow, blow, blow, blow, blow our love away

(Wicked wind, wicked wind of the hurricane)

Blow, blow, blow, blow, blow our love away

(Wicked wind of the hurricane)

 

Come to blow all night (Come to blow all night)

What a frightful night (What a frightful night)

Me and the kids (Me and the kids)

Me the cats and the kids

But where’d you goa that night, that fateful night

 

There’s a hurricane blowing over land today, now she’s dying, dying, dying

But she knocked down trees and she splintered poles and she sent some rooftops flying

She devastated us, she’s what separated us

 

As if she hated us she turned that wicked eye on us

Come to blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, our love away

Come to blow our love away (Wicked wind of the hurricane)

 

Blow, blow, blow, blow, blow our love away

(Wicked wind, wicked wind of the hurricane)

Blow, blow, blow, blow, blow our love away

(Wicked wind, wicked wind of the hurricane)

Blow, blow, blow, blow, blow our love away

(Wicked wind of the hurricane)

 

Come to blow all night (Come to blow all night)

What a frightful night (What a frightful night)

Me and the kids (Me and the kids)

Me the cats and the kids

But where’d you go that night, that fateful night

 

© 1989. Billy Marabella.

NOTES ON THIS SONG
This is a story about post-traumatic stress syndrome. People’s frailties and loyalties are exposed during those desperate hours when the winds are howling, the windows are breaking, the tide is rising and the roof is coming off. Some of us sit with the kids and the pets and wait it out, while others of us get blown onto some other course that can’t be corrected. This song appears again in a somewhat altered format on the Dangerous album.