Skeleton boy by the side of the road,
He warned me, he told me.
He said, “There’s this woman, she’s a hurricane.
She will heal your heart up.
She is hurrying.”
He said, “Don’t look for holidays.
Don’t look, just run away.
Go suffocate and choke your own cry.
Go where the water, where the water
Seeps from the pink sky.
But behead this woman, she’s a hurricane.
She will heal your heart up.
She is hurrying.
Remember your reflection in a pool in a puddle.”
And the leaves sped top-speed towards me
And my image was muddled.
“I’m a light-headed wonder,” she said.
“Don’t you see my mind slow down?
I’m a light-headed wonder.
Don’t you see my mind slow down, slow down?
I’ve compassion for strangers,
An affinity for danger.
Won’t you be my sacrifice?
I’m a light-headed wonder,” she said.
Don’t you see my mind slow down for you, for you?”
You’re a headless woman, you’re a hurricane.
You will heal my heart up?
No, I will heal my own heart up,
‘Cause you are hurting.
I’m a sunburst slap upon your arm.
I’ll twist you till you break.
You’re a hurricane.
The song "Hurricane" is a fictional story I made up about a woman who is like a hurricane. I am sure that many of you have heard me explain this at shows, but it's about a guy AKA "skeleton boy" who has just been emotionally ravaged by his relationship with this woman- "she's a hurricane." The woman says that she will help him "heal his heart" in a hurry, and, of course, a heart heals slowly. Instead of helping this poor guy, she hurts him even more. At the beginning of the song, the guy warns the singer about this "hurricane woman" and goes on advise the singer not to ever try to take the easy way out- "don't look for holidays." Instead you should go through the pain to get rid of it- "go suffocate, and choke your own cries, go where the water, where the water seeps from the pink sky"- a place where the sun will one day come out. In the bridge of the song, the "lightheaded wonder" part, he's remembering how she lured him in. By the end of the song, the guy gains power and overcomes the bad power of the woman.
another of lisa's descriptions:
"It's really cinematic. I like how the strings give it that added sense of desolation and drama. I'm writing from several points of view here. 'Hurricane' is about this witch-like woman. The Skeleton Boy on the road has been ravished - you don't know if it's physically or emotionally - and he warns the listener about this woman, who will tell you that she can heal your heart. But he's tried her healing, and he knows now the only way to do that is to heal yourself."