Thunder Rolls!!!

The ballad that i have chosen one of the many great works by Garth Brooks, titled Thunder Rolls. This song is about a tragic accident by the man, and the sudden disaster of his relationship. Brooks tells the story of the young man, who has cheated on his wife, and then comes home to find his wife waiting for him. She then proceeds to rush out to him, because she is worried sick, and smells the perfume of someother woman. Brooks uses the lines "And the thunder rolls/And the thunder rolls," after every stanza. This shows the use of a refrain and of a burden. He uses the same chorus everytime. He does not state what the characters are thinking for feeling , he tells the story of the wife waiting for her beloved husband to return home. He also uses a strong, simple beat, and uses the line "There's a storm moving in," which has a double meaning, becuase it is raining but there is about to be a fight between him and his wife.

Artist: Garth Brooks
Song: Thunder Rolsls
Album: No Fence

Three thirty in the morning
Not a soul in sight
The city's lookin' like a ghost town
On a moonless summer night
Raindrops on the windshield
There's a storm moving in
He's heading' back from somewhere
That he never should have been
And the thunder rolls
And the thunder rolls

Every light is burnin'
In a house across town
She's pacin' by the telephone
In her faded flannel gown
Askin' for a miracle
Hopin' she's not right
Prayin' its the weather
That's kept him out all night
And the thunder rolls
And the thunder rolls

The thunder rolls
And the lightin' strikes
Another love grows cold
On a sleepless night
As the storm blows on
Out of control
Deep in her heart
The thunder rolls

She's waiting' by the window
When he pulls into the drive
She rushes out to hold him
Thankful he's alive
But on the wind and rain
A strange new perfume blows
And the lightnin' flashes in her eys
And he knows that she knows
And the thunder rolls
And the thunder rolls

The thunder rolls
And the lightnin' strikes
Another love grows cold
On a sleepless night
As the storm blows on
Out of control
Deep in her heart
The thunder rolls

She runs back down the hallway
To the bedroom door
She reaches for the pistol
Kept in the dresser drawer
Tells the lady in the mirror
He won't do this again
Cause tonight will be the last time
She'll wonder where he's been