Owl City - The Tornado: chords

       F
It was just startin' to drizzle as
I walked out the door
    A#
But I've delivered papers in the rain like that
  Gm
before
  F
3:30 in the morning, I was happy as a lark
      A#                  C        F
As I grabbed my bike and rode into the dark
  F
I peddled through the neighbourhood,
the weather on my mind
    A#
The wind was pickin' up and howling louder
         Gm
all the time
      F
The sky turned like a cauldron and the
distant thunder roared
       A#             C            F
And I knew that I was in for quite a storm
   A#                               C
A little rain never hurt no one, so I kept
pressing on
        F                                 A#
And I tried to tell myself, "It's always darkest
             C
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 a doubt,
there was a twister touching down
So I crawled into a 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"

    A#                                Dm
And then the nightmare started it got deafeningly
loud
       F
every fiber in me screamed out
      F        Gm      C  Dm  Gm  Am
but I couldn't make a sound
     A#                     A/C#      Dm
the whirling of a vortex a violent carousel
   A#                B                C
it sounded like a freight train was dragging me
    C#
to hell

     Fm   F#  C/E  C
And this was my prayer
D#m        C#      A#m     Csus4 C
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 I'd not be murdered by
a monster in the sky that night
But if I went home to heaven,
at least that's where I'd belong

Yeah, I tried to tell myself,
"It's always darkest before the dawn"
So I kept hanging on (Ooh)
(Ooh) I kept hanging on
(Ooh)

The shadows slowly melted as I was hunkered down
'Til at last, the worst was over, the
storm was dying out
I crept out of that culvert and I went
weak in the knees
'Cause 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 hangin' from
the power lines
I blinked a tear back as 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

'Cause 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