The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
She comes on like a stone
But you don't know where from she was thrown
Like a burning meteor from miles high
Shes looking for a place to land
She said you got yourself some sand
And whatever you'd reply she took as yes
She comes out the deep?
With her newly planted seeds and soon you're
Thrown down on your knees and then you're dead
Then before you know the weeds are all beastly overgrown
With all the wild seeds he sews in your sleeve
You've got to know you'll never let her go
Lightning bolt!
Lightning bolt!
Lightning bolt!
Always something and never nothing
Isn't that the way we're taught to be, to be?
Through the worn our pages
In stages when you knew not who to be
Yeah! yeah!
Until the lightning strike sets you free, yeah!
You've got to know you'll never let her go
She is lightning bolt!
Lightning bolt!
Lightning bolt!
The crashing stormy waves are over shoreline everyday
Until the castle on her waves turns to sand
She holds her lovely breast as her birds fall from her nest
Flying towards the great northwest, yeah you were here
And with no repair in sight
There is no god with such might
As you open her world wide with such a view
And your death will soon arrive as she finally decides
That all her problems, they won't die with you
A-yeah! a-yeah! a-yeah!
Never let her go
She's a lightning bolt
Never let her go
She's true
She's rock 'n roll
She's a lightning bolt
Uncontrollable
Like you
But you don't know where from she was thrown
Like a burning meteor from miles high
Shes looking for a place to land
She said you got yourself some sand
And whatever you'd reply she took as yes
She comes out the deep?
With her newly planted seeds and soon you're
Thrown down on your knees and then you're dead
Then before you know the weeds are all beastly overgrown
With all the wild seeds he sews in your sleeve
You've got to know you'll never let her go
Lightning bolt!
Lightning bolt!
Lightning bolt!
Always something and never nothing
Isn't that the way we're taught to be, to be?
Through the worn our pages
In stages when you knew not who to be
Yeah! yeah!
Until the lightning strike sets you free, yeah!
You've got to know you'll never let her go
She is lightning bolt!
Lightning bolt!
Lightning bolt!
The crashing stormy waves are over shoreline everyday
Until the castle on her waves turns to sand
She holds her lovely breast as her birds fall from her nest
Flying towards the great northwest, yeah you were here
And with no repair in sight
There is no god with such might
As you open her world wide with such a view
And your death will soon arrive as she finally decides
That all her problems, they won't die with you
A-yeah! a-yeah! a-yeah!
Never let her go
She's a lightning bolt
Never let her go
She's true
She's rock 'n roll
She's a lightning bolt
Uncontrollable
Like you
Lyrics submitted by Hrd2Imagin
Lightning Bolt Lyrics as written by Eddie Jerome Vedder
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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