Story Behind The Song
I drove through Topsail Island, NC after a direct hit from Hurricane Fran in 1996. This song details some of the things I saw.
Song Description
Description of an island after a hurricane.
Song Length |
3:57 |
Genre |
Pop - Easy Listening, Pop - Rock |
Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
Mood |
Blissful, Pleasant |
Subject |
Disasters, Wind |
Similar Artists |
James Taylor, Bodeans |
Language |
English |
Era |
1990 - 1999 |
| |
Lyrics
Vacation Wasteland
There?s a steady beat kept by tires on the causeway
The summer heat is risin up from the road
Roll down the windows
Smell the salt air
And look out at the blue water below
Yes I remember those holiday vacations
Here with the seagulls and castles of sand
They?ve blown away by storms of the season
Leaving only
A vacation wasteland
They?ve got shrimp boats backed up on the highway
People walking the streets trying to find what they own
Stairways stepping up to nowhere
They can?t go home
Cause a wall of water came barreling through this beach town
Homes on the frontline
Windows boarded up
Shops closed down
All that remains
Is vacation wasteland
At the end of the land
And the edge of the sea
In the wind and waves is where we want to be
Till the hurricanes level dreams in the sand
And all that remains
Is vacation wasteland