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lightning crashes, a new mother cries
her placenta falls to the floor
the angel opens her eyes
the confusion sets in
before the doctor can even close the door

lightning crashes, an old mother dies
her intentions fall to the floor
the angel closes her eyes
the confusion that was hers
belongs now, to the baby down the hall

oh now feel it comin’ back again
like a rollin’ thunder chasing the wind
forces pullin’ from the center of the earth again
I can feel it.

lightning crashes, a new mother cries
this moment she’s been waiting for
the angel opens her eyes
pale blue colored iris,
presents the circle
and puts the glory out to hide, hide

Interpretation of ‘Lightning Crashes’ by fans on web :

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” lends itself to many 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. The dedication to Barbara Lewis came after the song was written. 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.”

In other words, this song is about the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. The angel opens her eyes in birth, and closes them in death. 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 pale blue-colored iris of a newborn baby represents the circle of life. The glory coming out to hide is the spark of the divine hidden within all people. It is there before us in plain sight, but hidden because we see the flesh most often rather than the spirit within.

It is not about the girl who died in the car accident, nor is it about abortion, miscarriage, etc. 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).

This song is about spiritual awakening. If you doubt this, do some Googling on Ed K. — and yes, I know what he *said* – yogis and mystics have engaged in this kind of reporting “sleight of hand” as long as there have been yogis and mystics. The “old mother” dying, and her placenta falling to the floor are the release of illusory consciousness.

The new mother is the awakening into realization (the mother is language and discursive thought; she binds us, until we get it [realize words and thoughts are within our own consciousness, and we are independent of them] — and then, she liberates us; the old mother and new mother are actually the same.)

The angel is the all-powerful, yet fully innocent baby of each new moment of perception (the same “baby” we cradle in space, in I Alone); Lightning Crashes is the flash of pure consciousness in each moment of perception, *before* it splits up into a sense of subject and object. I didn’t get this either for a long time; then I meditated for a decade, learned Sanskrit, and realized. I also realized that our good friend Ed is putting the “circle out to hide” in *every single song*.

LIVE can take you all the way Home (where the Heart is Given Up to the One — from They Stood Up for Love). Do I have any idea what I’m talking about? “Yonivargah Kalasariram – The Mother’s group of sources comprises the group of obscuring energies; Jnanadhistanam Matrka – The Mother is the place of knowledge.” Matrka – the yoga of the symbolism of Sanskrit is the “yoga of the hidden Mother” (yes- The Mother from Freaks.) Aum Hrdayam! (AUM is Where the Heart Is!)

I think this song is about the circle of life and death. In the first verse, it says ‘an new mother cries/her placenta falls to the floor’ which refers to childbirth. In the second verse, it says ‘an old mother dies’, referring very obviously to death, and the last line of this verse goes ‘the confusion that was hers/belongs now to the baby down the hall’.

What I take this to mean is that the band is literally talking about one hospital where you have a baby being born at the same time as a person dies, symbolizing the very intimate relationship life and death share. And that the person dying no longer has to worry about the ‘confusion’ of life, while the baby is just about to enter this confusion.

Each verse begins with ‘lightning crashes’ which could mean several things. Either the same crash of lightning that sees new life also sees death, or that while all this life and death goes on, mother nature continues unknowingly.