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Little Lightning
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a whirlwind in the kitchen, a twister in the den A hurricane is racing through the living room again She's known to clock around the block and back in nothing flat How do you suppose we ever got a kid like that? She's wearing out the staircase, she's tearing up the hall We're lucky if we get away when climbing up the wall She'll wear out any athlete or circus acrobat How do you suppose we ever got a kid like that? It doesn't come from my side We're passive to a fault You'd hardly know my chromosomes were there While your side's known for working hard They always had the sense To pause a moment now and then for air From the moment she awakens until her day is done And sometimes while she's sleeping we can hear her motor run She's spinning like a wheel inside a gerbil habitat How do you suppose we ever got a kid like that? Our families are puzzled, the neighbors seem amused And everybody wonders just what hormones we have used We don't have all the answers, I've got no caveat But there's a theory how we ever got a kid like that Nine months before her birth date A storm was passing through A blast of lightning struck our humble home We never knew what happened 'Cause we had gone to bed And made a little lightning of our own Now there's a whirlwind in the kitchen, a twister in the den A hurricane is racing through the living room again She'll only stop to sip some pop or terrorize a cat How do you suppose we ever got a kid like that? There's not one in a million kids could match our daughter's zest Pardon me for saying, but I think that's for the best Yet for all that energy she's still our pride and joy And every night I thank the stars that we didn't have a boy |