Misc Originals – 07K - Save Me From This Terrible Nightmare (Guitar)

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It was just startin' to drizzle as I walked out the door

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But I've delivered papers in the rain like that before

  D
3:30 in the morning, I was happy as a lark

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As I grabbed my bike and rode into the dark

  D
I peddled through the neighbourhood, the weather on my mind

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The wind was pickin' up and howling louder all the time

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The sky turned like a cauldron and the distant thunder roared

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And I knew that I was in for quite a storm

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A little rain never hurt no one, so I kept pressing on

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And I tried to tell myself, "It's always darkest before the dawn"

D
Lightning struck an oak tree as I left off my bike

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The siren started wailing but there was no good place to hide

  D
I knew without a doubt, there was a twister touching down

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So I crawled into a covert to wait it out

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The little bit of courage I had left was almost gone

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But I tried to tell myself, "It's always darkest before the dawn"

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And then the nightmare started, it got deafeningly loud

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Every fibre in me screamed out but I couldn't make a sound

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The whirling of a vortex, a violent carousel

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It sounded like a freight train was dragging me to hell

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And this was my prayer

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Save me from this terrible nightmare

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That was when I saw my family with my eyes shut real' tight

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Would they know how much I loved them if this was how I died?

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No, I vowed I'd not be murdered by a monster in the sky that night

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But if I went home to heaven, at least that's where I'd belong

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Yeah, I tried to tell myself, "It's always darkest before the dawn"

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So I kept hanging on

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I kept hanging on

    E
The shadows slowly melted as I was hunkered down

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'Till at last, the worst was over, the storm was dying out

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I crept out of that covert and I went weak in the knees

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'Cause what I saw, was a somber sight to see

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There was nothing but destruction and wreckage in that town

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Cars were upside down and houses levelled to the ground

  E
A twisted trampoline was hangin' from the power line

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I blinked a tear back as I felt lucky to be alive

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And that was how I learned to live when you can run but you can't hide

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How to feel trapped in a tunnel but come out the other side

            A                             E
'Cause with all the stormy weather in the world

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You learnt to take life one storm at a time, you don't have to be afraid

    A                                    B
And now, when there's bad weather on the way, I stay calm

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And I keep hanging on because it's always darkest before the dawn

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And I keep hanging on

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I keep hanging on