Lightning

<br>Lightning struck a while ago<br><br>And its blazing much too fast<br><br>But give it rain of waiting time<br><br>And it will surely pass<br><br>Blow over<br><br><br><br><br><br>And its happening so quickly<br><br>As I feel the flaming time<br><br>And I grope about the embers<br><br>To relieve my stormy mind<br><br>Blow over<br><br><br><br><br><br>Shaken this has left me<br><br>And laughing and undone<br><br>With a blinding bolt of sleeplessness<br><br>Thats just begun<br><br>And a windy crazy running<br><br>Through the nights and through the days<br><br>And a crackling<br><br>Of the time burned away<br><br>Burned away<br><br><br><br><br><br>Now I feel it in my blood<br><br>All hot and sharp and white<br><br>With a whipcrack and a thunder<br><br>And a flash of flooding light<br><br><br><br><br><br>But therell be a thick and smoky<br><br>Silence in the air<br><br>When the fire finally dies<br><br>And Im wondering wholl be left there<br><br><br><br><br><br>In the ashes of the time<br><br>Burned away<br><br>Burned away<br><br><br><br><br><br>(1978)