After The Sirens

**Verse 1**

You hit like a warning I chose to ignore

A tremor beneath every word

The windows all rattled, but I held the door

Like silence was safer than hurt

You said, “I’m a storm you don’t want in your head,”

I said, “I’ve been drowning for years.”

We danced in the wreckage of things left unsaid,

Just feeding our beautiful fears

**Pre-Chorus**

And I knew when the sky turned gray

It was only a matter of days

Before everything we built would break

**Chorus**

You were a natural disaster

I saw the clouds rolling in

But I stood in the middle of nowhere

And let the chaos win

You tore through my bones like a wildfire

Left nothing but smoke in my lungs

Now I’m sifting through ashes and after

Counting the damage you’ve done

**Verse 2**

We slept with the lights on and hope in our hands

Like that could keep lightning away

But love isn’t stronger than shifting sands

When both of us want to escape

You swore that you needed the thrill of the fall

I swore I could carry the weight

But cracks in the ceiling grow into the walls

And mercy always comes too late

**Pre-Chorus**

I felt every fault line shake

Every promise begin to break

Still I begged for one more wave

**Chorus**

You were a natural disaster

I felt it before it began

Like standing too close to the shoreline

And calling it part of the plan

You carved out your name in the ruins

Like wreckage was all that we knew

Now I’m tracing the outline of heartbreak

In everything I try to do

**Bridge (soft, stripped back)**

If love is a warning siren

Why do I run toward the sound?

Why do I build my home in the fire

Just to watch it burn down?

Maybe I needed the damage

Maybe I needed the pain

To learn I can’t save every hurricane

By letting it carry my name

**Final Chorus (bigger, raw)**

You were a natural disaster

But I was the one who stayed

I let you rewrite my horizon

Then blamed it on wind and rain

Now I hear those sirens fading

And I’m finally walking away

From the wreckage you left behind me

And the ruins I helped you make

**Outro**

No more standing in open water

No more calling it fate

I won’t romanticize the thunder

Or beg for another earthquake.

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