Here She Comes

Here she comes, here she comes, my one true nightmare
don't look now or she'll give you a fright
death comes creeping over the levee
smiling sideways and puffing on a Parliament Light

Her cries make the thunder, her tears they make the flood
don't get caught smiling in her house of pain
when she thrashes around she makes the wind blow harder
she's a natural disaster, oh mama she's a hurricane

Here she comes, here she comes, my one true nightmare
don't look now or she'll give you a fright
death comes creeping over the levee
smiling sideways and puffing on a Parliament Light

Up from the mud, from that dirty water
it must be close for it's hot and deathly still
Elle dit "ils vont tous se moquer à toi" and I go to pieces
Maman knows best, and she knows these words can kill

Here she comes, here she comes, my one true nightmare
don't look now or she'll give you a fright
death comes creeping over the levee
smiling sideways and puffing on a Parliament Light

She said here take my burden and shoved me into the water
said if you sink to the bottom, it's your own fault if you drown
there's somebody down there he's been dyin' to meet you
Chère, the River King is waiting and your daddy can't help you now

Here she comes, here she comes, my one true nightmare
don't look now or she'll give you a fright
death comes creeping over the levee
smiling sideways and puffing on a Parliament Light