After the hurricane, after the wind and rain 

When we lost everything, after the hurricane 



It was not the driving rain 

That let our love go down the drain 

It was not the howlin' wind 

That blew away the hopes I planned 



After the hurricane, after the wind and rain 

When we lost everything, after the hurricane 



We were sheltered from the storm 

In what we thought was safe and warm 

We survived the risin' tide 

But there's no place that we can hide 



After the hurricane, after the wind and rain 

When we lost everything, after the hurricane 



Things were scattered, things got tossed 

But that's not what we had lost 

It's a way of marking time 

To fit the reason to the rhyme 



After the hurricane, after the wind and rain 

When we lost everything, after the hurricane 



After the hurricane, after the wind and rain 

When we lost everything, after the hurricane