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Chain Lightning
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Don McLean
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Sometimes when I'm thinkin that love's not around
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My heart begins sinkin, I don't hear a sound
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And the world is in blackness, no light shines on me
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I suffer no blindness, no one can I see
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Then a flash from the heavens, like loud jagged wire
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And the silence is broken, and the night is on fire.
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[Chorus:]
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It's like chain lightning, this love that I feel
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Who knows where it strikes
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Or when it will hit
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How long it will last, or when it will quit
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In the forest I'm burnin, struck down by the blast
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The fever is churnin, and the heat rises fast
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And those standing nearest can show their concern
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But swear if they touch me, that they too will burn
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They fear for their lives, for death will soon dwell
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In the warmth of your love is the fire of hell.
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[Chorus:]
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It's like chain lightning, this love that I feel
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Who knows where it strikes
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Or when it will hit
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How long it will last, or when it will quit
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And soon the sparks scatter and the wind whips the flame
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And love will soon shatter what it cannot tame
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And the cycle continues from life into dust
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For I am now in you, with the fire of lust
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I hear the explosion, and the thunder and rain
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The water is falling, and the ashes remain.
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[Chorus:]
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It's like chain lightning, this love that I feel
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Who knows where it strikes
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Or when it will hit
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How long it will last, or when it will quit
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The Indians tell us that the phoenix can rise
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From teh smoldering ashes that once were my eyes
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And watch beautiful colors from black and from grey
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Be formed into wings and then take me away
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Where evil is darkness and goodness is light
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And love is the lightning that cust through the night
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And strikes only once in a dark place in time
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And forms a fold stairway that all of us climb.
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Submitted by C. Cox
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