Lightning Crashes

Lightning Crashes is +Live+'s ultimate song. It's the one everyone knows them by, as "the group that sings Lightning Crashes." In ninth grade, I had a report on the song (analizing it as poetry) and I realized then how melancholic the song is, but there's also a spec of hope in the words. If you look in the Throwing Copper CD jacket, you'll see "Barbara Lewis (1973-1993)" there. She was a good friend of the band, but when they went to look her up one day, they learned she had been killed in a car accident. The version of Lightning Crashes before this dedication is much faster and now it is in memory of a beloved lost friend.

lightning crashes, a new mother cries
her placenta falls to the floor
the angel opens her eyes
the confusion sets in
before the doctor can even close the door

lightning crashes, an old mother dies
her intentions fall to the floor
the angel closes her eyes
the confusion that was hers,
belongs now, to the baby down the hall

oh now feel it comin' back again
like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind
forces pullin' from the center of the earth again
I can feel it

lightning crashes, a new mother cries
this moment she's been waiting for
the angel opens her eyes
pale blue colored iris, presents the circle
and puts the glory out to hide, hide
  oh now feel it comin' back again
like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind
forces pullin' from the center of the earth again
I can feel it
I can feel it

I can feel it comin' back again
like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind
forces pullin' from the center of the earth again
I can feel it

I can feel it comin' back again
like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind
forces pullin' from the center of the earth again
I can feel it

I can feel it comin' back again
like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind
forces pullin' from the center of the earth again
I can feel it
I can feel it
I can feel it

 

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