WHY THUNDER?
is a song about loss. i used to worry about writing and singing songs about
dead people. then one time, when i mentioned this at a show, a man said:
"that's how we keep them alive." since then, i’ve felt clear about singing
my dead people songs. (lyrics below)
Why
Thunder?
Lighting candles for the dead
Shining
columns blue and red
Hanging out my memories
Watch 'em flutter in the
breeze
And I wonder
Why thunder
Don't bring you home to me
Contemplating good and bad
Some years lucky, some years sad
Time
it brings small relief
I still cry myself to sleep
And I
wonder
Why thunder
Don't bring you home to me
One black night
a phone did ring
Dragged me from the bed
When they told me you were
gone
I prayed take me instead
And I wonder
Why thunder
Don't bring you home
Why it don't bring you home
I wonder why the
thunder don't bring you home
I wonder
Lighting candles for the
dead
Shining columns blue and red
Blue and red
Blue and red
Blue and red
copyright 1998
by Lori B
all rights reserved, used by permission
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