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Snow Patrol
The Lightning Strike
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“The Lightning Strike” is a song from alternative rock band Snow Patrol’s fifth album A Hundred Million Suns, and appears as the last track on the album. The lyrics to the song were written by lead singer Gary Lightbody and the music was composed by Snow Patrol. The song is composed of three smaller songs, and at sixteen minutes eighteen seconds, it is the longest the band has written yet.
The song has an elaborate live performance where a specially made animation is played simultaneously as the band performs the song. Most of the video features origami, which is the main artwork for the album and its singles. The song received a mixed reaction when the album was released, and though the band were praised for playing it live, the general feeling was that it wasn’t a right choice,...
Read on...Song lines: ♪ It rained so hard the two of us were the only thing ... That we could see for miles and miles ... And in the middle of the flood I felt my worth ♫
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