The song is about two people struggling to get closer to each other but unable to do so due to strong emotions (lightning, flames) that make them unable to communicate effectively. This emotion affects both sides: 1. the talker/sender (lightning strikes the postman) produces gibberish wrongly interpreted by the listener/receiver (in the first two verses it is the other person, in the third one it's the singer who fails to send a desired message) 2. the listener/receiver cannot read the message due to the flames inside him or her. This situation creates artificial distance between the two participants - thus the mail metaphor. Nevertheless, hope of happy ending is expressed throughout the song (I hope that you remember the things you had to say, It's just a supernatural delay), probably based on understanding, how hard time the other parson might have due to one's own experience (lightning strikes all the time, I couldn't really think of anything to say). I don't know if it is what author intended to say, but this is the meanong I got almost instantly after reading the lyrics, because I personally always feel like struck by a lightning when I'm face to face with a girl I like, and while I can operate normally and confidently discussing other things, I have hard time expressing my feelings, and also I'm unsure if I'm reading hers correctly, cause I feel hot inside. I think it's by far not just my experience. And I think the song is beautiful.
The song is about two people struggling to get closer to each other but unable to do so due to strong emotions (lightning, flames) that make them unable to communicate effectively. This emotion affects both sides: 1. the talker/sender (lightning strikes the postman) produces gibberish wrongly interpreted by the listener/receiver (in the first two verses it is the other person, in the third one it's the singer who fails to send a desired message) 2. the listener/receiver cannot read the message due to the flames inside him or her. This situation creates artificial distance between the two participants - thus the mail metaphor. Nevertheless, hope of happy ending is expressed throughout the song (I hope that you remember the things you had to say, It's just a supernatural delay), probably based on understanding, how hard time the other parson might have due to one's own experience (lightning strikes all the time, I couldn't really think of anything to say). I don't know if it is what author intended to say, but this is the meanong I got almost instantly after reading the lyrics, because I personally always feel like struck by a lightning when I'm face to face with a girl I like, and while I can operate normally and confidently discussing other things, I have hard time expressing my feelings, and also I'm unsure if I'm reading hers correctly, cause I feel hot inside. I think it's by far not just my experience. And I think the song is beautiful.