The Storm

Before I took you in, I tried to think of something I could say

I watched the shadows in the hall

Had to dance with the light and the white on the wall

Your face in these pictures looks like a poem

Your eyes lit up like a river storm

Your body so much like a blanket thrown on a warm bed at night

Like a house in the storm

Then you walked right through the doorway

You tell me you're here to stay

The worst is gone and back I'd holler

You been here this way

And I surprise myself sometimes

The way the days unfold and this road unwinds

You tell me you see it too

And the miles feel like inches when I think of you

It's been 25 days that I've been gone

25 weeks since I've seen my home

I spend 25 months chasing this song

All of this time I've been alone

You walked right through the doorway

You tell me you're here to stay

The worst is gone and back I'd holler

You been here this way

And you knew it all along

I wasn't happy all along

Nobody at home had wanted me to just come home

Then you walked right through the doorway

You tell me you're here to stay

The worst is gone and back I'd holler

Had you been here this way

And I won't just run, I'll stand like a man

I got 25 years of running instead

How can I see that I never feel me?

But you came to me and I was caught in the storm

That I wasn't alone