[Verse 1]
Can you hear me? I am choking on rain clouds
Coughing up lightning; trembling like thunder
The water is coming in (It's pulling me under)
For forty days, four-hundred nights, with no wind in sight
I know these clouds will never part ways
(But sunlight started creeping)
[Chorus]
You came in like the southern wind
Started blowing in, started knocking me down
I felt alive when I hit the ground
[Chorus 2]
(To me you are the desert sand)
You came in like the southern wind
(To me you're comfort like dry land)
Started blowing in, started knocking me down
(You shelter me from the storm)
I felt alive when I hit the ground
(You are the hands that keep me warm)
[Verse 3]
So, so, so Southern Wind, pick me up and dry me out
Take away all my fear; erase my doubts
I'm a castaway and I'm afraid (of dying alone)
(I want to know) what it's like to breathe again
I want to hear my own heart beat again
I'm tired of drowning
[Chorus]
You came in like the southern wind
Started blowing in, started knocking me down
I felt alive when I hit the ground
[Chorus 2]
(To me you are the desert sand)
You came in like the southern wind
(To me you're comfort like dry land)
Started blowing in, started knocking me down
(You shelter me from the storm)
I felt alive when I hit the ground
(You are the hands that keep me warm)
[Bridge]
Now I am not afraid to take on the rain
And I won't shy away from these white waves
Crashing down around my face
Set an open course for the eye of the storm
I'm ready to chase my white whale
So let loose these tattered sails
And it doesn't matter (no, I'm not afraid)
If I make it back or if I fail, Because you saved me
And that will be enough somehow (white waves)
Not even (come crashing down) an ocean could stop me now
(Around my face) no, not even an ocean could stop me now
[Chorus]
You came in like the southern wind
Started blowing in, started knocking me down
I felt alive when I hit the ground
[Chorus 2]
(To me you are the desert sand)
You came in like the southern wind
(To me you're comfort like dry land)
Started blowing in, started knocking me down
(You shelter me from the storm)
I felt alive when I hit the ground
(You are the hands that keep me warm)
[Chorus 3]
To me you are the desert sand (I won't)
To me you're comfort like dry land (shy away)
(From these) You shelter me from the storm (white waves)
Crashing down around my face
[Ending]
Not even an ocean could stop me now, no
Not even an ocean could stop me now, no