The Lightning Strike

Album: A Hundred Million Suns (2008)
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  • What if this storm ends?
    And I don't see you
    As you are now
    Ever again

    The perfect halo
    Of gold hair and lightning
    Sets you off against
    The planet's last dance

    Just for a minute
    The silver forked sky
    Lit you up like a star
    That I will follow

    Now it's found us
    Like I have found you
    I don't want to run
    Just overwhelm me

    What if this storm ends?
    And leaves us nothing
    Except a memory
    A distant echo

    I want pinned down
    I want unsettled
    Rattle cage after cage
    Until my blood boils

    I want to see you
    As you are now
    Every single day
    That I am living

    Painted in flames
    All peeling thunder
    Be the lightning in me
    That strikes relentless

    What if this storm ends?
    And I don't see you
    As you are now
    Ever again

    The perfect halo
    Of gold hair and lightning
    Sets you off against
    The planet's last dance

    Just for a minute
    The silver forked sky
    Lit you up like a star
    That I will follow

    Now it's found us
    Like I have found you
    I don't want to run
    Just overwhelm me Writer/s: GARY LIGHTBODY, JONATHAN GRAHAM QUINN, NATHAN CONNOLLY, PAUL WILSON, TOM SIMPSON
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Nishit from MumbaiSnow Patrol have the potential to make it really big on the alternative rock scene and then the mainstream sections if they continue to make stuff like this. I love this song, the whole 16 minutes and not once does it feel like its dragging along. When I heard Chasing Cars, they seemed to be a one-hit wonder, but as I discovered their past stuff (and subsequent stuff) turns out that's nowhere near their best.

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