Saw Lightning
by Beck

Album: Hyperspace (2019)
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    There was a day I saw lightning
    There was a day I saw lightning (I saw lightning)
    Hey hey hey, saw lightning
    Ho ho ho, saw lightning
    He he he, saw lightning
    Ha ha ha

    Saw windy manes
    Saw mountains fall
    Saw temples burn
    Prison walls
    Saw floods coming
    Saw children run
    We got no more shelter, no more sun

    Then it came to me in a flash of light
    By the sycamore tree in the dead of night
    The bottom bell and the longest day
    The hardest wind and the fallen rain
    Saw lightning, saw lightning, saw lightning
    I held my head up
    And it struck me down
    Down to the ground
    It struck me down, struck me down
    Struck me down to the ground

    There was a day I saw lightning
    There was a day I saw lightning
    Hey hey hey, saw lightning
    Ho ho ho, saw lightning
    He he he, saw lightning
    Ha ha ha

    When they're named, I wonder where it go
    Hold the sea, where it's sunny where I grow
    One more day then daily I know
    High, need trees, when it's sunny and go
    More than fee, by money, I know
    Pull me in, gotta start down low
    Don't gotta sing, with weather I go
    Partner we go

    Then it came to me in a flash of light
    By the sycamore tree in the dead of night
    The bottom bell and the longest day
    The hardest wind and the fallen rain
    Saw lightning, saw lightning, saw lightning
    I held my head up
    And it struck me down
    Down to the ground
    It struck me down, struck me down
    Struck me down on the ground

    Hey hey hey, saw lightning
    Ho ho ho, saw lightning
    He he he, saw lightning
    Ha ha ha, saw lightning
    Saw lightning, saw lightning, saw lightning

    Lord, won't you take me and lead me to the light?
    Lord, won't you take me and lead me to the light?
    The Lord's gonna take me and leave me in the light
    The Lord's gonna take me and leave me in the light

    Then it came to me in a flash of light
    By the sycamore tree in the dead of night
    The bottom bell and the longest day
    The hardest wind or in the fallen rain
    I saw lightning, saw lightning, saw lightning
    I held my head up
    And it struck me down
    Down to the ground
    It struck me down, struck me down
    Struck me down on the ground

    I saw lightning
    I saw lightning
    I saw lightning
    I saw lightning Writer/s: Beck Hansen, Pharrell Williams
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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