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Hurricane
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Oct 10, 2026 updated
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Song Meaning
A storm becomes the central image for emotional and spiritual upheaval here, with the singer watching someone they love endure something immense. The opening lines catch the tension in small physical details — a heart "hanging in the air," footsteps counted on the stairs, pain visible even behind closed eyes. The chorus names the force directly: it arrives like a hurricane, taken in slowly, while the world spins like a weather vane and the singer stays "fragile and composed" even as they break down. There's a striking admission that the person holding everything together is often the one wearing thinnest. The second verse turns darker, with seven visits that came while the other person slept and a flame too heavy to bear, the sky burning red against skin. The closing section repeats like a mantra, falling slowly in pouring rain, watching things go while staying the same, admitting not knowing how change could come. What emerges is less a resolution than a vigil — someone aching to be let in, standing beside another person's storm without pretending it will simply pass.
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I can feel your heart hanging in the air
I'm counting every step as you climb the stairs
It's buried in your bones, I see it in your closed eyes
Turning in, this is harder than we know
We hold it in the most when we're wearing thin
Comin' like a hurricane, I take it in real slow
The world is spinning like a weather vane
Fragile and composed
Though I am breaking down again
I am aching now to let you in
Seven times it came when you were not awake
Seven times the flame, too much to take
The sky burns red against your skin
The world we know turns in the wind
Comin' like a hurricane, I take it in real slow
The world is spinning like a weather vane
Fragile and composed
Though I am breaking down again
I am aching now to let you in
It's all we know, all we know, the hurricane
Falling slow, falling slow in the pouring rain
It's all we know, all we know, the hurricane
Falling slow, falling slow in the pouring rain
Watch it go, watch it go, we stay the same
And I don't know, I don't know how it can change
Watch it go, watch it go, we stay the same
And I don't know, I don't know how it can change
And I don't know, I don't know how it can change
It's all we know, all we know, the hurricane