The Tubes

Who Names The Hurricanes

The Tubes


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 
Jea