Melanie Safka Cyclone Lyrics

[Written by Melanie Safka]
[1977]

I wait for the day to burn into night
And then I wait for dawn,
And I open my eyes when it gets bright
And I know I must be home.
Oh God I know I must be home,
I know I must be home,
God I gotta get home,

Hold tight cyclone
Found love in the music but lost
it in the overtones.
Sweat on the brow, blood on the lips
Love for the money, and gold
at the fingertips,
At the fingertips.

Hold tight cyclone
A fool to continue but love
keeps me holding on.
And it feels good real slow.
I love you to hurt me but pain
makes me let you go,
It makes me let you go.

Hold tight cyclone
Don't need no religion to look
for the Kingdom Come
Gotta feel for the ground,
reach for the sky,
Leap off the edge to see
if you fall or fly
If you fall or fly.

We were so close, there was no room
We bled inside each others wounds
We all had caught the same disease
And we all sang the songs of peace
Some came to sing, some came to pray
Some came to keep the dark away

Lay down lay down, let it all down
Let your white birds smile up
at the ones who stand and frown
You gotta lay down lay down,
let it all down
Let your white birds smile up
at the ones who stand and frown
You gotta lay down lay down,
let it all down
Let your white birds smile up
at the ones who stand and frown
You gotta lay down lay down, o-oho
let it all down
Let your white birds smile up
at the ones who stand and frown

So raise the candles high
Cause if you don't we could stay
Black against the night
Oh oh raise them higher again
And if you do we could stay dry
against the rain

Hold tight cyclone
Found love in the music but lost
it in the overtones.
Sweat on the brow, blood on the lips
Love for the money, and gold
at the fingertips,
At the fingertips.

Lost in the overtones.
Lost in the overtones
Lost in the overtones, lost, lost, lost
Lost in the overtones, lost, lost, lost
Lost in the overtones
Lost, lost, lost...

Hold tight!