Tubes Who Names The Hurricanes lyrics

Who Names The Hurricanes by Tubes

Who Names The Hurricanes lyrics
(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