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Saw Lightning by Beck

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Beck

Saw Lightning

Release date: 22nd November 2019

From Hyperspace
Track 3
4:01
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'Saw Lightning' by Beck is an alternative track from the album 'Hyperspace', released in 2019. The lyrics sketch a vivid, almost apocalyptic day: the speaker reports seeing lightning, wind in Maine, mountains falling, temples burning, and floods coming, with the refrain hammering the moment home. One line crystallises it as “There was a day I saw lightning”, while the rolling syllables give the scene a strangely sing-song momentum. The result is both observational and unsettled, as if catastrophe is being counted off in bright, breathless takes.

"Saw Lightning" is a single by Beck, from the album Hyperspace, released 22nd November 2019. The track is 4:01 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 8 articles about Beck.

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Beck

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Lyrics

Saw Lightning

Oooh, oooh, oooh
Oooh

There was a day I saw lightning
There was a day I saw lightning (I saw lightning)
Hey hey hey, saw lightning
Ho ho ho, saw lightning
He he he, saw lightning
Ha ha ha

Saw wind in Maine
Saw mountains fall
Some temples burn
Disinvolved
Some floods coming
Children run
We got no more shelter, no more sun

Then it came to me in a flash of light
By the sycamore tree in the dead of night
The bottom bell and the longest day
The hardest winter and the fallin' rain
Saw lightning, saw lightning, saw lightning

I held my head up
And it struck me down
Down to the ground
It struck me down, struck me down
Struck me down to the ground

There was a day I saw lightning
There was a day I saw lightning
Hey hey hey, saw lightning
Ho ho ho, saw lightning
He he he, saw lightning
Ha ha ha

When they need us where do we go
Hold the sea, we're steady we'll grown
Row ahead we're letting it go
Man ideas all sunny and go
Hold the sea well what do you know
Pull me deep, 'cos steady you know
All this thing but what do I know
Right now we row

Then it came to me in a flash of light
By the sycamore tree in the dead of night
The bottom bell and the longest day
The hardest winter and the fallin' rain
Saw lightning, saw lightning, saw lightning

I held my head up
And it struck me down
Down to the ground
It struck me down, struck me down
Struck me down on the ground

Hey hey hey, saw lightning
Ho ho ho, saw lightning
He he he, saw lightning
Ha ha ha, saw lightning
Saw lightning, saw lightning, saw lightning

Lord, won't you take me and lead me in the light?
Lord, won't you take me and lead me to the light?
The Lord's gonna take me and leave me in the light
The Lord's gonna take me and leave me in the light

Then it came to me in a flash of light
By the sycamore tree in the dead of night
The bottom bell and the longest day
The hardest winter and the fallin' rain
I saw lightning, saw lightning, saw lightning

I held my head up
And it struck me down
Down to the ground
It struck me down, struck me down
Struck me down on the ground

(I saw lightning
I saw lightning
I saw lightning
I saw lightning

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Track details

From Hyperspace

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Hyperspace
Hyperspace
Beck
22nd November 2019
Track number
3
Release year
2019
  1. 1Hyperlife
    1:37
  2. 2Uneventful Days
    3:17
  3. 3Saw Lightning
    4:01
  4. 4Die Waiting
    4:05
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