Em
Verse 1:
Em Sometimes when I'm thinkin' that C love's not a G round
My Am heart begins Em sinkin', I Am don't hear a B7 sound
And the Em world is in blackness, no C light shines on G me
I Am suffer no Em blindness, no Am one can I B7 see
Then a Em flash from the heavens like a C loud jagged G wire
And the Am silence is Em broken, and the B7 night is on Em fire.
Chorus:
It's like Em chain lightning, this C love that I G feel.
Who Am know's where it Em strikes or Am when it will B7 hit,
How Am long it will Em last, or B7 when............ it will Em quit.
Chords repeated for rest of song:
Verse 2:
In the forest I'm burning, struck down by the blast
The fever is churning, and the heat rises fast.
and those standing nearest can show their concern
but I swear if they touch me that they too will burn.
They fear for their lives for death will soon dwell
in the warmth of your love is the fire of hell.
(Chorus)
Verse 3:
And soon the sparks scatter and wind whips the flame
and love will soon shatter what it cannot tame
and the cycle continues, from life into dust
for I am now in you with the fire of lust.
And I hear the explosion, of thunder and rain,
the water is falling, the ashes remain.
(Chorus)
Verse 4:
The Indian's tell us that the Phoenix can rise
from the smoldering ashes that once were my eyes
and watch beautiful colours from black and from grey
be formed into wings and take me away
where evil is darkness and goodness is light
and love is the lightning that cuts through the night
and strikes only once in a dark place in time
and forms a gold stairway that all of us climb.
Don McLean
