Lightening Strikes

 

n       Lyric Bernie Gilbert & Brook Schoenfield

n       Music Brook Schoenfield © 2003

 

The lightning strikes

The tall trees shiver

My attention spikes

Ice pack feeds the river

And the ice floats

The energy pulses

In my lover's throat

The lightning strikes

 

A motor chugs

Two owls hoot

The fat moon tugs

At a shimm'ring parachute

Hung in the sky

The energy coils

In my lover's thighs

The lightning strikes

 

When fingers mold, when clay is shaped

When spirits play in minor thirds

When terror stirs the human ape

When ecstasy spills out in words

When skin meets skin inside the dark

When drunks and prophets rage

What power strikes those sparks?

Who's rattling the cage?

 

Another life begins

A meeting of the minds

The smoky planet spins

The ceaseless ocean grinds

Boulders to sand

The energy shakes me awake

Within my lover's hands

The lightning strikes