The Calm Before Lyrics - The Calm Before - Matt Elliott

Here comes a storm 

The dust & papers dance around the room 

It tells of a storm 

The sky is a painted viscous swirl of troubled hues 

There's a storm 

The branches rock & dance & creak & wave 

We're in for a storm 

I've got this headache that I've had for days 

Here comes the rain 

The first few drops caress & gently dance 

They light up your face 

You smile in wonder looking through the eyes of a child once again 

But soon the gentle drops become the deadly wolf of a gale 

Our voices become lost beneath the chaos 

Here comes a storm 

The way the wind it starts to play and race 

It whispers a storm 

And here comes a storm 

Just as everything was falling into place here's a storm 

There must be a storm 

Don't we need it 

Just to clear it 

To blow the dust away 

Away, to a place where it can never be found or thought of again 

Draw me the shades 

The beasts that softly whisper in your ear and keep you awake 

We all have ghosts & monsters dear it's best to give them a face 

And then you simply take it, burn and throw the ashes away 

The creeping doubts will disappear without trace 

Here comes the dawn 

I can't believe we've been sitting here all night talking this long 

About exactly when and where it started going so wrong 

Dissecting every aspect as if it was fine all along 

I told you that I'd never been all that strong 

Here comes a storm 

And with it come the things that we will have to face in this storm 

And here comes a storm 

Just as everything was falling into place here's a storm 

There must be a storm 

Don't we need it 

Just to clear it 

To blow the ashes away 

Away, to a place where they can never be found or thought of again 

This patch of blue, this ray of sun 

The sense of a strange uneasy calm 

Perhaps that was all, perhaps we're done 

Or maybe the worst is yet to come 

And all is calm and cold as death 

As all of nature holds her breath 

But soon enough she'll blow 

She'll howl 

She knows 

And she will howl 

She'll blow us deep into the ground 

To the ground 

Where we can only pray that we'll never be found