Track 9 of the album The Lantern Man Keeps the Last Stall Lit · 2026
The Eye of the Storm Is a Quiet Room
“The wind goes still at midnight and the rain stops on the pane. I closed the record in the quiet, because that is where the light is.”
neoclassical · neoclassical · nocturne · 3:32
Lyrics
The wind went still at midnight, the rain stopped on the pane. I stepped out to the doorway and I felt the held-breath calm remain. Above me stars were showing in a circle ringed with cloud, and the whole wide world was listening, and I was not so loud. The eye of the storm is a quiet room where the walls of cloud stand tall. Take one breath, take one moment, there is room for you in all. For the wind will find us shortly, but we've learned how to stay, the eye of the storm is a quiet room, and the dawn is on its way. My neighbour stood beside me, we did not say a word. A single bird was calling, the only sound we heard. We knew the wall was coming, we knew the night was long, but standing in that stillness made us weirdly, deeply strong. The eye of the storm is a quiet room where the walls of cloud stand tall. Take one breath, take one moment, there is room for you in all. For the wind will find us shortly, but we've learned how to stay, the eye of the storm is a quiet room, and the dawn is on its way. Close the door and gather, trim the lamp and wait, the second half is coming but we are not afraid of fate. We have held the quiet, we can hold the roar, and whatever blows against us we have steadied at the core. The eye of the storm is a quiet room where the walls of cloud stand tall. Take one breath, take one moment, there is room for you in all. For the wind will find us shortly, but we've learned how to stay, the eye of the storm is a quiet room, and the dawn is on its way. And the dawn is on its way.