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Snow Patrol – The Lightning Strike (2008) | Track profile | Dork

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A Hundred Million Suns
The Lightning Strike

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The Lightning Strike

Release date: 23rd October 2008

From A Hundred Million Suns

Track 11

16:18

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"The Lightning Strike" is a track by Snow Patrol, from the album A Hundred Million Suns, released 23rd October 2008. The track is 16:18 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Snow Patrol.

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Lyrics

The Lightning Strike

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 to run
Just overwhelm me
What if this storm ends?

And leaves us nothing
Except a memory
A 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 strikes relentless
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 to run
Just overwhelm me

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Track details

From A Hundred Million Suns

16:182008

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Album

A Hundred Million Suns

24th October 2008

Track number

11

Release year

2008

1If There's a Rocket Tie Me to It
4:19
2Crack The Shutters
3:21
3Take Back The City
4:38
4Lifeboats

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5The Golden Floor

6Please Just Take These Photos From My Hands

7Set Down Your Glass

8The Planets Bend Between Us

10Disaster Button

11The Lightning Strike

16:18

—Crack The Shutters

—The Lightning Strike

Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Gary Lightbody
Producer: Jacknife Lee
Arranger: Avshalom Caspi
Brass: Evgeny Chebykin, Jocelyn Lightfoot, Kira Doherty, Philip Eastop, Richard Bayliss, Timothy Brown (2)
Choir: The Exmoor Singers Of London
Director: James Jarvis
Recording Engineer: Mo Hausler, Phil Rose
Trombone: Colin Sheen, Dan Jenkins
Trumpet: Guy Barker, John Barclay, Mark Law (2), Pat White (2)