Lost In The Tempest Of Our Hearts by Tennessee Wayne

[Verse 1] The barometer is dropping down in the hallway, Every word we trade is heavy with the rain. You’re navigatin’ shadows standin’ in the doorway, Just charted by the lightning of your pain. [Verse 2] We keep driftin’ from a shoreline we can’t see anymore, Cut loose the only anchor that ever held the shore. The wind don’t ask for nothin’, it just kicks in the door, And leaves us with the echoes of what we were before. [Chorus] Now we’re lost in the tempest of our hearts, Where the mercy and the thunder fall apart. [Verse 3] Well, the captain’s in the basement, he’s polishing his shoes, While the radio is spitting out the same old lonesome news. And you’re standin’ on the table, tryin’ to catch a spark, Just wonderin’ who’s gonna strike the match to guide us through the dark. [Verse 4] I’ve seen the rivers risin’, I’ve felt the shifting sand, I’ve held the map of mercy in my trembling hand. But the ink is runnin’ blurry and the sky is turnin’ grey, And there ain’t no use in shoutin’ what you got no words to say. [Chorus] Now we’re lost in the tempest of our hearts, Where the mercy and the thunder fall apart. [Verse 5] Well, a broken clock went spinnin’ past, it never struck a time, And a tattered coat came dancin’ through like it once was yours or mine. There’s a letter never mailed, still flappin’ in the gale, With a name scratched out in shaky ink and a half-forgotten tale. [Verse 6] And the chairs are stacked like questions nobody can defend, While a mirror spins in circles tryin’ to recognize a friend. You say it’s just the weather, but I swear it’s something more— Like the past is gettin’ restless, come crashin’ through the door. [Chorus] Now we’re lost in the tempest of our hearts, Where the mercy and the thunder fall apart. [Verse 7] Well, I found that letter in the corner where the floorboards start to bend, But the words all ran together, I couldn’t tell how it would end. And you were standin’ in the doorway like you’d never really gone, Just waitin’ for the storm to pass that we’d been ridin’ all along. [Verse 8] Now the broken clock is tickin’, though it never moved before, And the coat hangs by the window like it’s waitin’ by the door. There’s a voice out in the static callin’ names I almost knew— But the storm don’t sound like weather, it just sounds like me and you. [Chorus] Now we’re lost in the tempest of our hearts, Where the mercy and the thunder fall apart. [Verse 9] There’s a lantern swingin’ sideways where the sky meets up with sand, And a shadow on the water that refuses to be land. I tried to read the compass, but it pointed everywhere— So I followed what was left of you that wasn’t really there. [Verse 10] Well, the storm blew out the questions, left the answers where they fell, And every truth we ever trusted didn’t fit us quite so well. Now the silence sits between us like a story gone unsure— And I can’t tell if we were broken… or just never really were. [Chorus] Now we’re lost in the tempest of our hearts, Where the mercy and the thunder fall apart.