Hillsong - Still Lyrics

"Still" pictures refuge in explicitly physical terms, asking to be hidden under God's wings and covered within His hand rather than describing safety abstractly. The chorus introduces a specific threat, rising oceans and roaring thunder, before responding not with fear but with an image of soaring above the storm rather than being overwhelmed by it. Naming God directly as King over the flood ties that confidence to His authority over the very danger being described, echoing a familiar biblical scene of a storm calmed by a word. The chorus's closing line borrows a well-known psalm's instruction to be still and know God, applying an ancient command for stillness to a modern picture of chaos and threat. The bridge shifts from external storm to internal rest, addressing the soul directly and locating that rest specifically in Christ rather than in changed circumstances, closing with reliance on quietness and trust rather than personal strength.