The Tornado
 作曲 : Adam Young
 It was just starting to drizzle as I walked out the door
 But l've delivered papers in the rain like that before
 Three thirty in the morning, I was happy as a lark
 As I grabbed my bike and rode into the dark

 I pedaled through the neighborhood, the weather on my mind
 The wind was picking up and howling louder all the time
 The sky churned like a cauldron and the distant thunder roared
 And I knew that I was in for quite а storm

 A little rain never hurt no one so I kept pressing on
 And I tried to tell myself, it's always darkest before the dawn

 Lightning struck an oak tree as I leapt off my bike
 The sirens started wailing but there was no good place to hide
 I knew without а doubt, there was а twister touching down
 So I crawled into а culvert to wait it out

 The little bit of courage I had left was almost gone
 But I tried to tell myself, it's always darkest before the dawn

 And then the nightmare started, it got deafeningly loud
 Everything fiber in me screamed out but I couldn't make a sound
 The whirling of а vortex, а violent carousel
 It sounded like a freight train was dragging me to hell

 And this was my prayer, "save me from this terrible nightmare"

 That was when I saw my family with my eyes shut real tight
 Would they know how much I loved them if this was how I died?
 No, I vowed l'd not be murdered by а monster in the sky that night

 But if I went home to heaven, at least that's where l'd belong
 Yeah I tried to tell myself, it's always darkest before the dawn
 So I kept hanging on
 I kept hanging on

 The shadows slowly melted as I was hunkered down
 Till at last the worst was over, the storm was dying out
 I crept out of that culvert and I went weak in the knees
 Cuz what I saw was a somber sight to see

 There was nothing but destruction and wreckage in that town
 Cars were upside down and houses leveled to the ground
 A twisted trampoline was hanging from the power lines
 I blinked a tear back cuz I felt lucky to be alive

 And that was how I learned to live when you can run but you can't hide
 How to feel trapped in a tunnel but come out the other side
 Cuz with all the stormy weather in the world, you learn to take
 Life one storm at a time, you don't have to be afraid

 And now when there's bad weather on the way, I stay calm
 And I keep hanging on because it's always darkest before the dawn

 And I keep hanging on
 I keep hanging on