Exploding Trees

Suddenly it's freezing after weeks of heavy rains

Waterlogged pines overtaken by the strain

As gravity's powerful hands take the reins

Exploding trees

Crashing through the ceiling, blocking all the roads

The beauty queen

Jewels on the crown underneath the load

Driving into town as the sun is going down

Sitting in the darkness in the freezing cold

She was all unhinged and panic stricken

I still had some family members to look in on

A house on mother's street came crashing down

Beauty queens in hospital gowns

Beauty queen in a hospital gown

Hooked to a machine ever since she's found

Exploding trees

Like fireworks in the ice storm, I can hear the sound

Like Vietnam descending upon Walnut Street

Like a movie in Sensurround

As it interrupts the silence in the dead of night

Evergreen and breaking down

Insurance estimation from the freeze

Damage in the millions for the town's economy

The power lines are down and it's fifteen degrees

Exploding trees

Limbs like boney fingers crashing through the ceiling

The beauty queen

Crushed beneath the pines on the frozen street

Exploding trees

National disaster, my hometown's on the TV