LIVE - LIGHTNING CRASHES
classic.
oh now feel it comin’ back again like a rollin’ thunder chasing the wind
“Lightning Crashes" is a song by the rock band Live, from their 1994 album, Throwing Copper. Lead singer Ed Kowalczyk said, “I wrote ‘Lightning Crashes’ on an acoustic guitar in my brother’s bedroom shortly before I had moved out of my parents’ house and gotten my first place of my own.” Kowalczyk says that the video for “Lightning Crashes” has caused misinterpretations of the song’s intent. “While the clip is shot in a home environment, I envisioned it taking place in a hospital, where all these simultaneous deaths and births are going on, one family mourning the loss of a woman while a screaming baby emerges from a young mother in another room. Nobody’s dying in the act of childbirth, as some viewers think. What you’re seeing is actually a happy ending based on a kind of transference of life.
New York Magazine described the band as “deeply mystical” and claimed that the song was, “The story of a…connection between an old lady dying and a new mother at the moment of giving birth.”[4]
