Lyrics:

LIGHTNING
Lyrics by 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 time
Burned away
Burned away