![]() Lighning crashes again, signalling death. "lightning crashes, an old mother dies" -> This is the same "new mother" later in life, having another child. "before the doctor can even close the door" -> The mother already knows the bad news before the doctor can tell her. The confusion sets in as the mother wonders why her baby has died. The confusion sets in" -> An angel in heaven "opens the mothers eyes" so the new mother can see that here baby is dead. The mother cries as she realises that something is wrong. Her placenta falls to the floor" -> This refers to a miscarriage. "Lightning crashes." -> This term describes how death can strike how quickly and suddenly death can occur without warning, without remorse, without even letting us know, or us wanting it to happen. Telling not just a story with words, but taking you inside it and making you feel like you are there, with their interpretation.I'm gonna do this line by line, so it's easier to understand. There is a huge difference between a singer who simply belts out a song that is on a page in front of them, and someone who can convey an entire experience with their voice. So, not a song about a poor girl, but a song of hope and how you can rise up no matter how far down you started. She's the one sitting in the drivers seat at the end. She didn't let the naysayers and judgers stop her. She not only stayed alive, she turned her hard beginnings around, became self sufficient, successful and someone with respect for herself. And the powerful spirit of a poor young girl being abandoned to her future with only a red dress and her wits to keep her alive. Takes me to the deep South and the poverty of some who lived thru truly hard times. This song captivates me still, after 50+ years. ![]() But it is a completely different song than the other one that sounds slapped together in a few takes without a thought for the meaning. The only reason it was remade was to scoop up a boatload of money from a more modern and accepting audience. ![]() Just listening for the 784,654th time.and it's just perfect in every way. It is about the peaceful passing of a life (an old mother whose children are grown), and the joyful if hectic arrival of a new life (the new mother and her baby). It is not about the girl who died in the car accident, nor is it about abortion, miscarriage, etc. It is there before us in plain sight, but hidden because we see the flesh most often rather than the spirit within. The glory coming out to hide is the spark of the divine hidden within all people. The pale blue-colored iris of a newborn baby represents the circle of life. The angel is both a symbol of the divine and of life, and the living people themselves (eyes opening for the first time in life, closing for the final time in death). The angel opens her eyes in birth, and closes them in death. In other words, this song is about the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. But it was something that we hoped would honor the memory of a girl we grew up with and help her family cope with sorrow - which it seems to have accomplished - in a fashion in keeping with the theme of the song." The dedication to Barbara Lewis came after the song was written. What you're seeing is actually a happy ending based on a kind of transference of life. Nobody's dying in the act of childbirth, as some viewers think. "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. Before the doctor can even close the doorĮd 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" lends itself to many misinterpretations of the song's intent.
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