The Lightning Strike: What If This Storm Ends?The Sunlight Through the

I. WHAT IF THIS STORM ENDS? 

What if this storm ends 
And I don't see you 
As you are now 
Ever again?

The perfect halo 
Of gold hair and lightning 
Sets you off against 
The planet's last dance 

Just for a minute 
The silver forked sky 
Lit you up like a star 
That I will follow 

Now it's found us 
Like I have found you 
I don't want [bad word] 
Just overwhelm me 

What if this storm ends? 
And leaves us nothing 
Except a memory 
distant echo 

I want pinned down 
I want unsettled 
Rattle cage after cage 
Until my blood boils 

I want to see you 
As you are now 
Every single day 
That I am living 

Painted in flames 
All peeling thunder 
Be the lightning in me 
That strike relentless

II. THE SUNLIGHT THROUGH THE FLAGS

From here the caravans are kids toys 
And I can hold them all in my palm 
I watch the sea creep round the corner 
It connects the dots from here to you 
The sunlight burning through the loose flags 
Painted high on white church walls 
I chase my blood from brain to thumped heart 
Until I'm out of breath for trying 

Worry not everything is sound 
This is the safest place you've found 
The only noise beating out is ours 
Lacing our tea from honey jars 

These accidents of faith and nature 
They tend to stick in the spokes of you 
But every now and then the trend bucks 
And you're repaired by more than glue 

Worry not everything is sound 
This is the safest place you've found 
The only noise beating out is ours 
Lacing our tea from honey jars 
Why don't you rest your fragile bones 
minute ago you looked alone 
Stop waving your arms you're safe and dry 
Breathe in and drink up the winter sky

III. DAYBREAK

Slowly the day breaks apart in our hands 
And soft hallelujahs flow in from the church 
The one on the corner you said frightened you 
It was too dark and too large to find your soul in 

Something was bound to go right sometime today 
All these broken pieces fit together to make a perfect picture of us 
It got cold and then dark so suddenly and rained 
It rained so hard the two of us were the only thing 
That we could see for miles and miles 

And in the middle of the flood I felt my worth 
When you held onto me like I was your little life raft 
Please know that you were mine as well 
Drops of water hit the ground like God's own tears 
And spread out into shapes like 
Salad bowls and basins and buckets for bailing out the flood 

As motionless [bad word] on driveways and curbs 
You take off your raincoat and stretch out your arms 
We both laugh out loud and surrender to it 
The sheer force of sky and the cold magnet Earth 

Something was bound to go right sometime today 
All these broken pieces fit together to make a perfect picture of us 
It got cold and then dark so suddenly and rained 
It rained so hard the two of us were the only thing 
That we could see for miles and miles 

And in the middle of the flood I felt my worth 
When you held onto me like I was your little life raft 
Please know that you were mine as well 
Drops of water hit the ground like God's own tears 
And spread out into shapes like 
Salad bowls and basins and buckets for bailing out the flood