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