Lightning — текст песни (Suzanne Vega)

Lightning struck a while ago

And its blazing much too fast

But give it rain of waiting time

And it will surely pass

Blow over





And its happening so quickly

As I feel the flaming time

And I grope about the embers

To relieve my stormy mind

Blow over





Shaken this has left me

And laughing and undone

With a blinding bolt of sleeplessness

Thats just begun

And a windy crazy running

Through the nights and through the days

And a crackling

Of the time burned away

Burned away





Now I feel it in my blood

All hot and sharp and white

With a whipcrack and a thunder

And a flash of flooding light





But therell be a thick and smoky

Silence in the air

When the fire finally dies

And Im wondering wholl be left there





In the ashes of the time

Burned away

Burned away





(1978)