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Lightning Never Takes A Long Time

from The Petals by Al Grierson

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LIGHTNING NEVER TAKES A LONG TIME

Just like God’s eternal hobo, always waiting for a train
With my pockets full of roses, always waiting for the rain
I was like some crazy outlaw, lookin’ for the perfect crime
Or a word in some old love song, looking for the perfect rhyme

And lightning never takes a long time
It’s just a flash across the sky
Hardly time to say, how are ya?
Never time to say goodbye
And like the sorrow in the silence, reachin’ out to find the song
Like the promise of tomorrow, it’s just the waiting that’s so long

They say nobody saw you shining like a candle in the gloom
And nobody heard the music when you walked around the room
And though the earth declined to tremble when you came in through the door
Like an old tree on a mountain, I was broken to the core

And lightning never takes a long time
It’s just a flash across the sky
Hardly time to say, how are ya?
Never time to say goodbye
And like the sorrow in the silence, reachin’ out to find the song
Like the promise of tomorrow, it’s just the waiting that’s so long

And now the world is all a-wonder, full of things I can’t explain
And on the other side of Eden, Abel’s calling out to Cain
With a word of kind forgiveness – it’s like a bolt out of the blue
Just like I feel that rolling thunder, everytime I look at you

And lightning never takes a long time
It’s just a flash across the sky
Hardly time to say, how are ya?
Never time to say goodbye
And like the sorrow in the silence, reachin’ out to find the song
Like the promise of tomorrow, it’s just the waiting that’s so long

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from The Petals, released June 10, 2021

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