[Intro]Gulls gone quiet on the rocks.The sky comes down in slow, gray steps.Somewhere a child hums one low note.I count the minutes. I forget.
[Verse]Black clouds stack above the cliffs,One by one they close the sun.The lighthouse blinks, then blinks again,Then the lamp goes out for good.The fishing boats are chained and still,Salt wind pulls my coat like hands.The tide is climbing up the stones,Inch by inch across the sand.
[Chorus]I saw it coming, and I stood here anyway.Dark water rising, and I could not move.I saw it coming, and I stood here anyway.Every warning in the world,And still the sea comes through.
[Verse]The siren on the harbor wallCries out once and then it dies.My shoes are filling up with cold,The footpath folds beneath the tide.I know the way back to the road,I could run, I know I could.But my feet are set like iron postsIn the grip of what I understood.
[Chorus]I saw it coming, and I stood here anyway.Dark water rising, and I could not move.I saw it coming, and I stood here anyway.Every warning in the world,And still the sea comes through.
[Bridge]Hush now, little voices, hush.The light is gone, the sky is shut.Some storms are not a thing you fight.They only ask that you look up.
[Chorus]I saw it coming, and I stood here anyway.Dark water rising, and I could not move.I saw it coming, and I stood here anyway.Every warning in the world,And still the sea comes through.