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Suzie Lightning Lyrics
She only sleeps on planes
She's tired of gong nowhere
She's in Yugoslavia
Working on a miniseries
Suzie Lightning
I built a world for her
Suzie lightning
I need a girl from earth
She's in Hungary
She sends postcards home
Does she think of me?
I'm in Hollywood
Suzie Lightning
Takes no prisoners
Suzie Lightning
No use crying about it
No use trying to hold on
She lights the sky up
Then she's gone
She don't have time for love
She don't need me now
Can't she see I'm burning up
Burning down, burning out
Suzie Lightning
I built a world for her
Suzie Lightning
I need a girl from earth
Suzie Lightning
She's tired of gong nowhere
She's in Yugoslavia
Working on a miniseries
I built a world for her
Suzie lightning
I need a girl from earth
She sends postcards home
Does she think of me?
I'm in Hollywood
Takes no prisoners
Suzie Lightning
No use crying about it
No use trying to hold on
She lights the sky up
Then she's gone
She don't need me now
Can't she see I'm burning up
Burning down, burning out
I built a world for her
Suzie Lightning
I need a girl from earth
Suzie Lightning
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I want to be like Suzie Lightning. She's independent as all hell, gets restless staying in one place... always moving around with no time for him (anymore?).
Warren Zevon's favorite song he ever wrote was this one, and the melody is so good you can see why. A great moment for the master musician of the 20th century.
http://books.google.com/books?id=YVF9M2XZGmoC&pg=PA261&dq=%22suzie+lightning%22&hl=en&ei=aVuUTuDIHMfJiQLR2Nj8BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22suzie%20lightning%22&f=false
Apparently Zevon got the idea for the song from the name of a stripper. Yes.
Anyways, I'd always considered it an unrequited love song, but Buddha of Suburbia's interpretation--that she has no time for him anymore--makes a lot of sense.
And yes, the melody's great. I like to play this one on guitar.
Fun fact: my dad wooed my now-stepmom by giving her a copy of "Mr. Bad Example" with instructions written on the outside to listen to Suzie Lightning. At the time she found it stalkerish and creepy, since she didn't know him at all then.