Every once in a while a song’s lyrics hit you and you take notice. Flying Colors’ ‘The Storm’ did just that. Flying Colors is a Prog Rock super group made up of Mike Portnoy, Dave LaRue, Casey McPherson, Neal Morse and Steve Morse. If you don’t recognize anyone, you’re probably not into Prog Rock. Then think the 80’s supergroup Asia.

The song ‘The Storm’ is about how one responds to a life changing event. Little did I know a couple of weeks later my sister would hit the key point of the song – somethings can only be made in the Storm.

Yes, fighting a storm is hard and it will knock you around. You may want to give up because a storm can be overwhelming but it does not go on forever. You either make your peace with it or it ends you. Others who have had their own storms understand this fight but what you gain in that fight is unique and for you; and the others in the storm. It may be a fresh start, a new or better relationship, a different direction or new perspective. But it is a gift that could only have been brought by The Storm.

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There was a time
When my life was easy
Stretched out in the sun
Everything was clover
The world was off my shoulders for awhile

But then the sky turned a bomb fire shade
And hit me like a gun
It passed with flying colors
There’s no flying over…

The storm…
We will dance as it breaks
The storm…
It will give as it takes
And all of our pain is washed away
Don’t cry or be afraid
Some things only can be made
In the storm

Sometimes we get swept away
We’re forced to take the change
The desert gives you comfort
You can’t stay here all your wounded life

Underneath is the tempest rage
Your secrets come undone
When mountains need movin’
Let me help you through it

The storm…
We will dance as it breaks
The storm…
Comes as fast as it fades
And all of our pain is washed away
Don’t cry or be afraid
Some things only can be made
In the storm

All your secrets come undone
Every web you’ve ever spun
All your secrets come undone
Let’em go
Let it come…

The storm…
We will dance as it breaks
The storm…
Gives you more than it takes
And all of our pain is washed away
Stare chaos in the face
We need only to embrace

Don’t cry or be afraid
Some things only can be made
In the storm