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Artist: Philip Glass
Canonical path: /philip-glass/lightning
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Lightning
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Lightning
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Lightning struck a while ago
And it's blazing much too fast
But give it rain of waiting time
And it will surely pass
Blow over
And it's 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
That's 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 there'll be a thick and smoky
Silence in the air
When the fire finally dies
And I'm wondering who'll be left there
In the ashes of time
Burned away
Burned away
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Philip Glass performs "Lightning", and this lyric page sits inside the Philip Glass catalog on LyroVerse.
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Yes. The related section below points to Heart of Glass (Crabtree Remix) and Changing Opinion with a short reason for opening each page next.
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