Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Neko Case
Vocals
Paul Rigby
Electric Guitar
A.C. Newman
Background Vocals
Barry Mirochnick
Drums
Joey Burns
Cello
Kelly Hogan
Background Vocals
Kurt Heasley
Background Vocals
Lucy Wainwright Roche
Background Vocals
Nora O'Connor
Background Vocals
Rachel Flotard
Background Vocals
Tara Szczygielski
Violin
Tom V Ray
Bass Guitar
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Neko Case
Songwriter
Paul Rigby
Songwriter
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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
[Verse 2]
I want you
[Verse 3]
Carved your name across three counties
Ground it in with bloody hides
Their broken necks will line the ditch
Till you "Stop it! Stop it! Stop this madness!"
[Verse 4]
I want you
[Verse 5]
I have waited with a glacier's patience
Smashed every transformer with every trailer
Till nothing was standing
Sixty-five miles wide
[Verse 6]
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
[Verse 7]
Climb the boxcars to the engine
Through the smoke and to the sky
Your rails have 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
[Verse 8]
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
[Verse 9]
My love, I'm an owl on the sill in the evening
But morning finds you
Still warm and breathing
[Verse 10]
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?
[Verse 11]
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?
Written by: Neko Richelle Case, Paul Andrew Rigby