The Tornado chords by 
Owl City 
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Key: F major•
Verse 1
C
F
It was just starting to drizzle
as I walked out the door
Bb
But I've delivered papers in the rain
Gm
like that be fore
F
Three-thirty in in the morning,
I was happy as a lark
Bb
C
F
As I grabbed my bike and rode into the dark
Verse 2
F
I pedaled through the neighborhood,
the weather on my mind
Bb
But the wind was picking up and
Gm
howling louder all the time
F
The sky churned like a cauldron and
the distant thunder roared
Bb
C
F
And I knew that I was in for quite a storm
Verse 3
Bb
A little rain never hurt no one,
C
so I kept pressing on
F
And I tried to tell myself,
Bb
C
it's always darkest before the dawn
Verse 4
F
Lightning struck an oak tree
as I leapt off my bike
Bb
The sirens started wailing but
Gm
there was no good place to hide
F
I knew without a doubt,
there was a twister touching down
Bb
C
F
So I crawled into a cul vert to wait it out
Verse 5
Bb
The little bit of courage I had
C
left was almost gone
F
But I tried to tell myself,
Bb
C
F
it's always darkest before the dawn
C
And
Verse 6
Bb
then the nightmare started,
Dm
it got deafeningly loud
F
Every fiber in me screamed out but
Gm
Dm
I couldn't make a sound
Bb
C
The whirling of a vor tex,
Bb
A
Dm
a vi olent ca rousel
Bb
Bdim
C
A
Bb
Fm
Abdim
It sounded like a freight train was dragging me to hell
A
Dm
Bb
Abdim
A
C
Db
B
Bdim
C
Fm
Db
B
Bdim
C
Fm
F#
Eaug
Caug
C
And this was my pray er,
Eb
Db
Bbm
C
"Save me from this ter rible night mare"
Interlude 1
C
Bb
F
Gm
F
Bb
C
Verse 7
Bb
That was when I saw my family
F
C
with my eyes shut real tight
Bb
Would they know how much I loved
Dm
C
them if this was how I died?
Bb
No, I vowed I'd not be murdered by a
F
C
Gm
monster in the sky that night
F
Verse 8
C
Bb
But if I went home to heaven,
C
at least that's where I'd belong
F
Yeah, I tried to tell myself,
Bb
C
it's always darkest before the dawn
F
C
Dm
F
Bb
F
C
Bb
So I kept hanging on
F
C
Dm
Bb
I kept hanging on
F
Gm
Bb
Verse 9
C
G
The shad ows slowly melted
as I was hunkered down
C
Till at last the worst was over,
Am
the storm was dying out
G
I crept out of that culvert and I
went weak in the knees
C
D
'Cause what I saw was a somber
G
sight to see
Verse 10
G
There was nothing but destruction
and wreckage in that town
C
Cars were upside down and
Am
houses leveled to the ground
G
A twisted trampoline was
hanging from the power lines
C
I blinked a tear back 'cause I
D
G
felt lucky to be alive
Verse 11
C
And that was how I learned to live when
G
D
you can run but you can't hide
C
How to feel trapped in a tunnel but
Em
D
come out the other side
C
'Cause with all the stormy weather in the world,
G
you learn
D
Em
To take life one storm at a time,
C
D
you don't have to be afraid
Verse 12
C
D
And now when there's bad weather on the way,
I stay calm
G
C
And I keep hanging on because it's always
D
darkest before the dawn
G
D
Em
G
C
G
D
Verse 13
C
G
D
Em
C
G
C
And I keep hanging on
G
D
I keep hanging on
Outro 1
Em
C
G
C
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Gm
Dm
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Bdim
Fm
Abdim
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F#
Eaug
Caug
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Am
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Em
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