Verse 1
The sky’s been holding its breath too long,
Like it knows what’s coming on,
Clouds stacked up like unspoken words,
Too heavy now to be unheard.
The air goes still, the birds go gone,
Even time feels like something’s wrong,
And I’m standing here in the in-between,
Where the world feels close, but not yet seen.
Pre-Chorus
There’s a hush that settles in my bones,
Like the earth is waiting alone,
Every flicker of light feels far too bright,
In a sky that forgot the night.
Chorus
It’s the calm before the storm,
Where nothing feels safe, nothing feels warm,
Just the quiet dread in a beating chest,
Waiting on what comes next.
Every second pulls like a warning bell,
Like a secret I can’t quite tell,
And I don’t know what I’ll become,
When the sky finally comes undone.
But I’m here… still holding on,
In the calm before the storm.
Verse 2
I count the seconds between the flash,
And the thunder rolling past,
Like I’m measuring the fear I hide,
In the silence just outside.
Every shadow feels like it moves,
Every truth I thought I knew,
Starts to bend in the fading light,
Of a storm that hasn’t arrived.
Pre-Chorus
And there’s a weight that I can’t ignore,
Like I’ve stood here once before,
Knowing something’s gonna break the sky,
But not knowing what survives.
Chorus
It’s the calm before the storm,
Where nothing feels safe, nothing feels warm,
Just the quiet dread in a beating chest,
Waiting on what comes next.
Every second pulls like a warning bell,
Like a secret I can’t quite tell,
And I don’t know what I’ll become,
When the sky finally comes undone.
But I’m here… still holding on,
In the calm before the storm.
Bridge
But maybe storms don’t come to destroy,
Maybe they come to unburden the noise,
To shake loose what was never meant to stay,
And wash the false light away.
And maybe I’m not afraid of the rain,
Just what I’ll lose, just what will change…
But even that might be the way,
The sky teaches me to pray.
Final Chorus
It’s the calm before the storm,
Where everything ends before it’s reborn,
A quiet hope in a trembling chest,
That what breaks down will build up next.
Every breath feels borrowed now,
Like I’m learning to let go somehow,
And I don’t know what I’ll become,
When the sky finally comes undone.
But I’m here… still holding on,
In the calm before the storm.
Outro
Still holding on…
In the calm before the storm.
Outro (Repeated Ending)
Still holding on…
In the calm before the storm.
Still holding on…
When everything feels torn.
Still holding on…
With the sky so heavy and worn.
Still holding on…
In the calm before the storm.
Still holding on…
Even when hope feels worn thin.
Still holding on…
Not knowing how it all will end.
Still holding on…
To what I can’t yet see or understand.
Still holding on…
In the calm before the storm.
DoubleJ83
