"Lightning Crashes" as written by Edward Joel Kowalczyk, Chad David Taylor, Patrick Dahlheimer and Chad Alan Gracey....
Lightning crashes a new mother cries
Her placenta falls to the floor
The angel opens her eyes
The confusion sets in
Before the doctor can even close the door
Lightning crashes an old mother dies
Her intentions fall to the floor
The angel closes her eyes
The confusion that was hers
Belongs now to the baby down the hall
Oh now feel it, comin' back again
Like a rollin', thunder chasing the wind
Forces pullin' from
The center of the earth again
I can feel it.
Lightning crashes a new mother cries
This moment she's been waiting for
The angel opens her eyes
Pale blue colored iris
Presents the circle
And puts the glory out to hide, hide
Oh now feel it, comin' back again
Like a rollin', thunder chasing the wind
Forces pullin' from
The center of the earth again
I can feel it.
Oh now feel it, comin' back again
Like a rollin', thunder chasing the wind
Forces pullin' from
The center of the earth again
I can feel it.
Oh now feel it, comin' back again
Like a rollin', thunder chasing the wind
Forces pullin' from
The center of the earth again
I can feel it.
Her placenta falls to the floor
The angel opens her eyes
The confusion sets in
Before the doctor can even close the door
Lightning crashes an old mother dies
Her intentions fall to the floor
The angel closes her eyes
The confusion that was hers
Belongs now to the baby down the hall
Oh now feel it, comin' back again
Like a rollin', thunder chasing the wind
Forces pullin' from
The center of the earth again
I can feel it.
Lightning crashes a new mother cries
This moment she's been waiting for
The angel opens her eyes
Pale blue colored iris
Presents the circle
And puts the glory out to hide, hide
Oh now feel it, comin' back again
Like a rollin', thunder chasing the wind
Forces pullin' from
The center of the earth again
I can feel it.
Oh now feel it, comin' back again
Like a rollin', thunder chasing the wind
Forces pullin' from
The center of the earth again
I can feel it.
Oh now feel it, comin' back again
Like a rollin', thunder chasing the wind
Forces pullin' from
The center of the earth again
I can feel it.
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Ed Kowalczyk said, "I wrote 'Lightning Crashes' on an acoustic guitar in my brother's bedroom shortly before I had moved out of my parents' house and gotten my first place of my own." Kowalczyk says that the video for "Lightning Crashes" lends itself to many misinterpretations of the song's intent. "While the clip is shot in a home environment, I envisioned it taking place in a hospital, where all these simultaneous deaths and births are going on, one family mourning the loss of a woman while a screaming baby emerges from a young mother in another room. Nobody's dying in the act of childbirth, as some viewers think. What you're seeing is actually a happy ending based on a kind of transference of life. The dedication to Barbara Lewis came after the song was written. But it was something that we hoped would honor the memory of a girl we grew up with and help her family cope with sorrow -- which it seems to have accomplished -- in a fashion in keeping with the theme of the song."
In other words, this song is about the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. The angel opens her eyes in birth, and closes them in death. The angel is both a symbol of the divine and of life, and the living people themselves (eyes opening for the first time in life, closing for the final time in death).
The pale blue-colored iris of a newborn baby represents the circle of life. The glory coming out to hide is the spark of the divine hidden within all people. It is there before us in plain sight, but hidden because we see the flesh most often rather than the spirit within.
It is not about the girl who died in the car accident, nor is it about abortion, miscarriage, etc. It is about the peaceful passing of a life (an old mother whose children are grown), and the joyful if hectic arrival of a new life (the new mother and her baby).
Angels do would not close their eyes - they would be welcoming a new member of 'God's creation' into the world. Although I understand the symbolism. From what I know about Angels - death and birth are joyous times. In my religion - we celebrate death because if you lived a good life - you will be in heaven or maybe purgatory to clean your soul. Death is sad for us humans but, very happy for everyone else. The Guardian Angel welcomed the woman's soul into heaven and certainly didn't close 'her eyes'. Again, I understand the symbolism but, death is tragic but, really really beautiful for the glory of the individual hopefully going to heaven. Angels are nothing but positive heavenly spirits.
Lead singer Ed Kowalczyk said, "I wrote 'Lightning Crashes' on an acoustic guitar in my brother's bedroom shortly before I had moved out of my parents' house and gotten my first place of my own." Kowalczyk says that the video for "Lightning Crashes" has caused misinterpretations of the song's intent.
While the clip is shot in a home environment, I envisioned it taking place in a hospital, where all these simultaneous deaths and births are going on, one family mourning the loss of a woman while a screaming baby emerges from a young mother in another room. Nobody's dying in the act of childbirth, as some viewers think. What you're seeing is actually a happy ending based on a kind of transference of life.[citation needed]
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Lightning crashes, a new mother cries(child birth is painful)
Her placenta falls to the floor
The angel opens her eyes(baby is the "angel", opening its eyes for the first time.)
The confusion sets in before the doctor can even close the door(I believe confusion is used to illustrate the struggle for life i explain that more later. also could mean not the babies struggle but the old woman's but I think it refers to their simaltanious struggle to live as the baby is beig born starting its life the old woman is dying and life is endeing)
Lightning crashes( could be metaphorical as in to say in a instant), an old mother dies(old mother meaning a older woman not the New mother or young woman becoming a parent who was mentioned in the first verse)
Her intentions fall to the floor
The angel closes her eyes(the angel this time refers to the old woman who has just died.)
The confusion that was hers belongs now, to the baby down the hall(confusion is to mean life. the struggle also could mean the fight to live. this verse says earlier her intentions fall to the floor she intended to live but she didn't she died the baby down the hall is the baby from the first verse who also is fighting to live as it takes its very first breath.)
Oh now feel it comin' back again
Like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind
Forces pullin' from the center of the earth again
I can feel it(I think the songs hook is describing crossing over or the feeling of life happening around you birth and death, begining and endings etc).
Lightning crashes, a new mother cries(this time tears of joy)
This moment she's been waiting for(shes hold ing/meeting her child after the 9 month journey)
The angel opens her eyes (baby opens her eyes and sees her mom)
Pale blue colored iris, presents the circle (the babies blue eyes metaphorically represent the circle of life, a never ending cycle of beginings and ends recycled.)
And puts the glory out to hide, hide