Train - Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado

It was just startin' to drizzle as I walked out the door But I've delivered papers in the rain like that before 3:30 in the morning, I was happy as a lark As I grabbed my bike and rode into the dark I peddled through the neighborhood, the weather on my mind The wind was pickin' 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 a storm A little rain never hurt no one so I kept pressin' on And I tried to tell myself it's always darkest before the dawn Lighting struck an oak tree as I leaped off my bike The sirens started wailing but there was no good place to hide I knew without a doubt there was a twister touchin' 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 And then the nightmare started, it got deafeningly loud Every fiber in me screamed out but I couldn't make a sound The whirling of a vortex, a violent carousel It sounded like a freight train was draggin' 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 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 tankin' on (Ooh ooh) (Ooh ooh) I kept tankin' on (Ooh 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 nothin' 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 'cause 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 hangin' on because it's always darkest before the dawn And I keep hangin' on I keep hangin' on

They deliver all the trouble to my front door, Served my wife with papers and a gun Please remember the man with whom you're dealing, Never was a father or your son Just another dog you chose cause he would run There's a wall cloud rolling across the blue sky Karma manifest into a form If you wonder the reason why I'm smiling, It's because I know her love will keep me warm Yeah we're the kind of folks that kinda like a storm We batten down the hatches and hold each other close, A joint and a couple matches feeds the flame I'm afraid for you, it's getting dark, Sundown at the trailer park and nothin's gonna look the same A tornado doesn't ask the fool his name Having visions of things that bare explaining, No answers in religion or the law Sending thugs out to call it all illusion, Doesn't change belief in a what I saw A translation of the writing on the wall We batten down the hatches and hold each other close, A joint and a couple matches feeds the flame I'm afraid for you, it's getting dark, Sundown at the trailer park and nothin's gonna look the same A tornado doesn't ask the fool his name We batten down the hatches and hold each other close, A joint and a couple matches feeds the flame For you, my friend, it's getting dark, Lights out at the trailer park and nothin's gonna look the same A tornado doesn't ask the fool his name