Gloria Roubal's Daily Hand Generated Type Phrase #71

I've been getting into creating lettering for music lyrics and titles as well as movie quotes. Each day my choice just depends on what I am thinking about at the moment I sit down to work. Lately I've been listening to Neko Case's Middle Cyclone CD, which is beyond brilliant. I had the pleasure of seeing her live in concert at the Canopy Club in Urbana a few years ago, and I was absolutely blown away. I already had a couple of her older records, but the tour was promoting Middle Cyclone. One of the other songs that is probably my favorite of her songs, period, is called, "Vengeance is Sleeping." However, I decided to use "This Tornado Loves You" for my daily project. It's probably my second favorite! I love the lyrics. They are so imaginative!

Here is my piece, and below are the lyrics to the song and a link to a YouTube video of a live performance!

God, I LOVE this song!

THIS TORNADO LOVES YOU—link to live performance on YouTube (on Letterman)

by Neko Case

My love, I am the speed of sound
I left them motherless, fatherless
Their souls dangling inside-out from their mouths...
But it's never enough
I want you

I carved your name across three counties
Ground it in with bloody hides
Their broken necks will lie in the ditch
Till you stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it

Stop this madness!
I want you

I have waited with a glacier's patience
Smashed every transformer with every trailer
Til nothing was standing
Sixty-five miles wide

But still you are nowhere, still you are nowhere, nowhere in sight
Come out to meet me, run out to meet me
Come into the light

Climb the boxcars to the engine
Through the smoke and to the sky
Your rails could always outrun mine so I

Picked them up and crashed them down
In a moment close to now

Cause I miss, I miss

I miss, I miss

I miss, I miss,

I miss, I miss

How you'd sigh yourself to sleep
When I'd rake the springtime across your sheets

My love, I am the speed of sound
I left them motherless, fatherless
Their souls dangling inside-out from their mouths...
But it's never enough

My love, I'm an owl on the sill in the evening
But morning finds you
Still warm and breathing

This tornado loves you

This tornado loves you, 

This tornado loves you

This tornado loves you, 

This tornado loves you

What will make you believe me?

This tornado loves you

This tornado loves you, 

This tornado loves you

This tornado loves you, 

This tornado loves you

What will make you believe me?