Lightning Bolt

By Pearl Jam

On Lightning Bolt

Released on October 15, 2013

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[Verse 1]

She comes on like a stone

But you don't know where from she was thrown

Like a burnin' meteor

From miles high

A-lookin' for a place to land

She said, "Have you got yourself some sand?"

And whatever you replied

She took as yes


[Pre-Chorus 1]

Now she comes after thee

With her newly planted seeds and soon

You're prone down on your knees

And there you dig

And then before you know

The weeds are obesely overgrown

With all the wild seed she sows

In your sleep


[Chorus]

You gotta know you'll never let her go

She's a lightning bolt, lightning bolt

Lightning bolt


[Guitar Solo]


[Bridge]

Always something and never nothing

Isn't that the way we're taught to be?

To be

Flippin' through the worn out pages

And stages when you knew not who to be, yeah, yeah

Uh, 'til the lightning strike sets you free, yeah


[Chorus]

You gotta know you'll never let her go

She's a lightning bolt, lightning bolt

Lightning bolt


[Verse 2]

Crashin' stormy waves erode her

Shoreline everyday until the

Castle of her ways

Turns to sand

She holds her lovely breast

As her birds fall from the nest

Flyin' towards the great northwest

Yeah, yeah, yeah


[Pre-Chorus 2]

And with no repair in sight

There is no God with such might

As to open her world wide

With subterfuge

And your death will soon arrive

As she finally decides

That all her problems

They won't die with you


[Interlude]

Hey yeah!

Hey yeah!

Hey yeah!


[Outro]

And if I let her go

She a lightning bolt

And when I let her go

She's true

She's a lightning bolt

She's a lightning bolt

Uncontrollable

Like you