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The Lightning Strike lyrics
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[I - What If This Storm Ends?]
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What if this storm ends?
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And I don't see you
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As you are now
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Ever again
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The perfect halo
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Of gold hair and lightning
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Sets you off against
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The planet's last dance
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Just for a minute
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The silver forked sky
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Lit you up like a star
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That I will follow
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Now it's found us
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Like I have found you
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I don't want to run
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Just overwhelm me
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What if this storm ends?
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And leaves us nothing
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Except a memory
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A distant echo
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I want pinned down
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I want unsettled
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Rattle cage after cage
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Until my blood boils
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I want to see you
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As you are now
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Every single day
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That I am living
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Painted in flames
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All peeling thunder
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Be the lightning in me
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That strikes relentless
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[II - The Sunlight Through The Flags]
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From here the caravans are kids toys
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And I can hold them all in my palm
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I watch the sea creep round the corner
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It connects the dots from here to you
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The sunlight burning through the loose flags
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Painted high on white church walls
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I chase my blood from brain to thumped heart
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Until I'm out of breath for trying
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Worry not everything is sound
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This is the safest place you've found
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The only noise beating out is ours
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Lacing our tea from honey jars
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These accidents of faith and nature
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They tend to stick in the spokes of you
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But every now and then the trend bucks
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And you're repaired by more than glue
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Worry not everything is sound
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This is the safest place you've found
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The only noise beating out is ours
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Lacing our tea from honey jars
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Why don't you rest your fragile bones
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A minute ago you looked alone
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Stop waving your arms you're safe and dry
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Breathe in and drink up the winter sky
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[III - Daybreak]
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Slowly the day breaks apart in our hands
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And soft hallelujahs flow in from the church
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The one on the corner you said frightened you
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It was too dark and too large to find your soul in
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Something was bound to go right sometime today
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All these broken pieces fit together to make a perfect picture of us
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It got cold and then dark so suddenly and rained
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It rained so hard the two of us were the only thing
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That we could see for miles and miles
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And in the middle of the flood I felt my worth
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When you held onto me like I was your little life raft
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Please know that you were mine as well
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Drops of water hit the ground like God's own tears
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And spread out into shapes like
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Salad bowls and basins and buckets for bailing out the flood
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As motionless cars rust on driveways and curbs
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You take off your raincoat and stretch out your arms
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We both laugh out loud and surrender to it
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| The sheer force of sky and the cold magnet Earth |