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Verse/Chorus Song Clip (from "Live Dogs" by Jeff Stewart)      Buy This Song in the Blue Clover Record Store

Verse/Chorus Song Clip (from "Western Movies" by Railtown)
    
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                        WHEN THE TWISTER TOUCHED DOWN

If I could paint a picture of what I saw, it would all be black and white
She was waiting in the stillness with a storm behind her eyes
If I had heard a warning, I would have tried to change the way she felt
But she was hiding her emotions, then like a train straight out of hell

     When the twister touched down
     The birds stopped singing
     And I wished that I could fly
     But I could only run for shelter
     And there was no place left to hide
     As our love came unwound
     - When the twister touched down

I still have scars from when she left me, but I've come to realize
How the words that went unspoken grew clouded in her mind
She was angry, she was restless, and the winds began to blow
Until she finally had to let loose, and the twister broke up our home

     When the twister touched down
     The birds stopped singing
     And I wished that I could fly
     But I could only run for shelter
     And there was no place left to hide
     As our love came unwound
     - When the twister touched down

           I guess she held it all inside as long as she could
          And in her silence I believed - and misunderstood

     But when the twister touched down
     The birds stopped singing
     And I wished that I could fly
     I could only run for shelter
     And there was no place left to hide
     As our love came unwound
     - When the twister touched down

     When the twister touched down

               Written by Jeff Stewart and Pam O'Daniel
               Copyright Blue Clover Music / Pam O'Daniel