The Lightning Strike

About The Lightning Strike

"The Lightning Strike" is a song from alternative rock band Snow Patrol's fifth album A Hundred Million Suns, and appears as the last track on the album. The lyrics to the song were written by lead singer Gary Lightbody and the music was composed by Snow Patrol. The song is composed of three smaller songs and, at sixteen minutes and eighteen seconds, is the longest the band has released yet. The song has an elaborate live performance where a specially made animation is played simultaneously as the band performs the song. Most of the video features origami, which is the main artwork for the album and its singles. The song received a mixed reaction when the album was released, and though the band were praised for playing it live, the general feeling was that it wasn't a right choice, with one critic calling it "self-indulgent" but forgivable. more »

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Part I: What If This Storm Ends?

What if this storm ends and I don't see you
As you are now, ever again?
A perfect halo of gold hair and lightning
Sets you off against the planet's last dance

Just for a minute, the silver forked sky
Lifts you up like a star that I will follow
And 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?
A perfect halo of gold hair and lightning
Sets you off against the planet's last dance

Just for a minute, the silver forked sky
Lifts you up like a star that I will follow
And now it's found us like I have found you
I don't want to run, just overwhelm me

Part I I: The Sunlight Through the Flags

From here, the caravans are kids' toys
And I can hold them all in my palm
I watch the sea creep 'round the corner
It connects the dots from here to you
The sunlight burning through the loose flags
Painted high on white church walls
I chase my blood from brain to thumped heart
Until I'm out of breath for trying

Worry not, everything is sound
This is the safest place you've found
The only noise beating out is ours
Lacing our tea from honey jars

These accidents of faith and nature
They tend to stick in the spokes of you
But every now and then, the trend bucks
And you're repaired by more than glue

Worry not, everything is sound
This is the safest place you've found
The only noise beating out is ours
Lacing our tea from honey jars

Why don't you rest your fragile bones?
A minute ago, you looked alone
Stop waving your arms, you're safe and dry
Breathe in and drink up the winter sky
Part I I I: Daybreak

Slowly, the day breaks apart in our hands
And soft hallelujahs flow in from the church

The one on the corner
You said frightened you
It was too dark and too large
To find your soul in

Something was bound to go right
Sometime today
All these broken pieces fit together
To make a perfect picture of us

It got cold and then dark
So suddenly and rained it rained so hard
The two of us were the only thing
That we could see for miles and miles

And in the middle of the flood
I felt my worth when you held onto me like I
Was your little life raft
Please know that you were mine as well

Drops of water hit the ground
Like God's own tears
And spread out into shapes like salad bowls
And basins and buckets for
Bailing out the flood

As motionless cars rust
On driveways and curbs
You take off your raincoat
And stretch out your arms

We both laugh out loud and surrender to it
The sheer force of sky
And the cold magnet Earth

Something was bound to go right
Sometime today
All these broken pieces fit together
To make a perfect picture of us

It got cold and then dark
So suddenly and rained it rained so hard
The two of us were the only thing
That we could see for miles and miles

And in the middle of the flood
I felt my worth when you held onto me like I
Was your little life raft
Please know that you were mine as well

Drops of water hit the ground
Like God's own tears
And spread out into shapes like salad bowls
And basins and buckets for
Bailing out the flood

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Snow Patrol

Snow Patrol are a British alternative rock band formed at the University of Dundee in 1994. The group comprises Gary Lightbody (vocals, guitar), Jonny Quinn (drums), Nathan Connolly (guitar, backing vocals), Paul Wilson (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Tom Simpson (keyboards). (piano, guitar, backing vocals). Initially an indie rock band, their first three records, the EP Starfighter Pilot (1997), and the studio albums Songs for Polarbears (1998) and When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up (2001), were commercially unsuccessful and were released by the independent labels Electric Honey and Jeepster respectively. The band then signed on to the major record label Polydor Records in 2002. more »

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