Never understood the words to this song until I listened to it in labor after my sister died a year earlier this song finally become clear. My daughter was born and I name her after my sister died. When it say the angel closes her eyes I can feel my sister she was also a mother. This song 🎵 in labor was God and my sister saying be strong. This was one of her favorites I see why I cry everytime😭😇🥰sad happy tears it was one of her favorites sister I finally understand I played it for baby gypsii tonight.
I lost my mother 13 minutes prior to giving birth to my son. She died of COVID on a ventilator. He was born on a ventilator because he was born 9 weeks early. 04-11-2020 ❤ I believe she gave up her fight to give him her fighting spirit
I'm sorry for your lost. Just know every time you look at your baby boy, she's behind those eyes watching over you and him. She'll forever watch over you and your family with a huge smile on her face. Even though her heart may have stopped, her love and compassion never will.
I’m very both so sad and so happy for you. May God keep you and bless you, this is an incredibly moving time for you & all of us going through this horrible virus. Stay safe & well!
I was about to graduate high school when this song came out. My mom told me that I was missing school to take her to the doctor, I think it was a day after okc bombing. This song was playing on the radio when I was driving home with Mom after she had a spinal tap performed after a recommendation of a doctor, and she was sitting next to me in the passenger seat in agony. We found out later that day she was diagnosed with leukemia, and unfortunately, she passed away seven months later after chemo treatments and a bone marrow transplant. For a long time I couldn't listen to this song with out crying remembering how poorly Mom felt that day and how much our lives changed because she became sick. She passed away at 46- now I am two years younger than she was when she passed on. I love you, Mom.
My baby boy passed away and I all I can do is hope his soul is helping another little one out there be brave and strong. Jesus this song makes me weep.
Hell yeah...this song reminds me of the mid 90s in fall i listened to the LIVE album this song was on over and over so 20 years later walking in the woods in the fall listening to this song...yeah...damn amazing how a song can take you back
Bro don't be depressed, this song is about how wonderful reencarnation is, and how the cycle of dying and reborn again give us another opportunity. I was sad when my father died but now I Know he's living again, in another body (avatar) but our soul is inmortal. Just live every day thankfully bro
This was my labor song 🙏I cry everytime I named her after my sister who use to play this song in the 90s and I never understood it till 2019 in labor try feel her spirit and I definitely did still do when I play it
This one will never get old. Soooo many memories, dreams and moments. Surely an anthem of the better days of music. At 43 still makes me feel the poetry behind the lyrics like the first time I listened this master piece. I was 17 at the time
This is the song that was played at my older brothers memorial.. I remember it started playing before i even walked into the church it was being held at and i just broke down, fell to my knees and cried uncontrollably. i knew I would cry hard so i didn't even go in the doors of the church where the memorial actually was being held and as everyone was leaving all of his friends who knew me came up to me and one by one crouched down and hugged me and told me how much he loved me and always talked about me in one way or another if not be worrying about me, defending me , or how I inspired him to be the person he was. I remember everyday that we spent together growing up we were 5 1/2 years apart, and he taught me so many things in this life. He was my best friend, he was my hero, and he was my older brother. The feeling of missing him hasn't faded away and i dont think it ever will as a matter of fact i think the feeling of his absence in life has grown even more since the day he took his own life on july 22 2010 at the age of 24 and i was 19. Honestly words cant really express or explain the pain of losing someone so close to you it's unfair. I love and miss you Michael Scott Anderson
@@deathrider365 and @somafera sorry to both of you, the 70s was the best time to be a teen 😂. Bit of a joke that one, because the best time to be alive is obviously following whenever you're born. But here's my case to a presumably music-loving group: when I was 17 among the shows i saw, front row (because rock concerts were general admission then, and if you wanted it you got it, and I did) for $10-14 per ticket: Led Zeppelin, Queen and ACDC the latter as the warm-up band for Foreigner. We walked out when Foreigner came on, that's how high our standards could afford to be back then. I now open the floor for arguments about why the 60s/80s/90s/00s/10s were/are better. PS if there's anybody still alive and on RUclips reading and typing who wants to put in a good word for the 30s 40s 50s, have at it 🙂
My mother passed away a few days after my birth from complications. I've always taken this song to heart, especially the lyric "the confusion that was her's belongs now to the baby down the hall".
My mom almost died 4 times in her life, she wasnt very lucky with her health. Today was her last surgery and she made it. Im proud of her, she is strong. Im with you❤💜
James Peticca May God Be with you today and all days. We live in a spiritual realm… There is darkness and there is light… Good and evil… Jesus is The Light. James Kamloops BC Canada 🍁
Me and my brother heard this on the station in the car, acouple days after we lost our mom. We chose this for her funeral, it was her... I miss her so much. I love you mamabear R.I.Heaven💔
I recall my senior years. Though I couldn't relate much to the song then.........I loved the sound and the lyrics and everything the song offered...... Now after more than 25years I was driving my teenaged daughter back to her hostel and she played this song on Spotify through the car's stereo. I simply stopped the car and my mind drifted to my high school days of carefree fun. Now I better understand the deepness of this song. I lost my Mom 20 yrs back, to lung cancer. I lost my Dad 10yrs back to a road accident. And some 8yrs back my wife was diagnosed with Bronchial cancer, though we fought and won. Life is wonderful, because there are songs like this.
OMG...songs like this..bring back so many memories from my childhood.Everytime I hear this I just wanna pick up the phone and sing along to it to my dad.He'd get a kick outta hearing this again after so many years!So much good music we forget about as time goes on and more artists come about!!! This is when ALL MUSIC WAS AT ITS BEST,ALL GENRES!
But did you listen in the 90s as a kid like i did unaware of the greatness before yourself? Lol. Amazing getting to still listen to this given the outcome of my family
@@robchapman1786 yes Sir I listen this song since I was 14 years old. I bought an LP album from LiVE the throwing copper at that time. Now ,I'm relaxing this Saturday morning. ...and also, I know how to play a guitar of this song ..acoustic
we all grew up to this band's amazing throwing copper album. It was a great time to be alive in America. It'll never quite be the same again but we will carry the memories with us till the end. Cheers to my fellow late 70s early 80s babies 🍺
How blessed I am to have 2 beautiful grandbabies and son..this song humbles me and chokes me up at the same time because it doesn't always turn out that way.💯🙏
I hemorrhaged after I had my daughter. I had no blood pressure and the doctors told my family that I had 15 minutes before I was dead. Long story short, my daughter is almost 25 now and planning her first baby. God seen me through this and with his grace, I will see her baby being born. This song was very popular when I gave birth to her and still hold a special place in my heart.
@@joeltorres1379 I feel 50/50. I'm glad to have had the chance to experience this first hand, but without younger kids. Rock and music as we know it will fade out. I want people to keep making music like this... so I can grow old knowing that something like this will forever continue.
This one goes out to those we lost in 2020. May they rest in peace forever. Lighting crashed on all of us, and if you’re listening to this right now, you made it.
@@tuberdumb7377absolutely...or the transferrence of life, how one life which is snuffed out another life is born, the preciousness of life is what i think the song is about...and also how we dont know when we will die inevitably but we can be certain another will be given life ..both haunting and bittersweet at the same time....the beauty of life.
Today 11/05/2021, my kid brother and his woman had there first child, a beautiful baby girl. The angel opens her eyes, Alana, welcome to the family, we love you, and God bless. As to the angel that closed her eyes this morning, we thank you more than you could know. God bless and keep you. Amen
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 coming back again Like a rolling thunder chasing the wind Forces pulling 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 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 I can feel it I can feel it coming back again Like a rolling thunder chasing the wind Forces pulling from the center of the Earth again I can feel it I can feel it coming back again Like a rolling thunder chasing the wind Forces pulling from the center of the Earth again I can feel it I can feel it coming back again Like a rolling thunder chasing the wind Forces pulling from the center of the Earth again I can feel it I can feel it I can feel it 🖤
I remember I used to hear this song all the time when I would walk to school. Listing to my old mini radio mp3 player. Because I was broke. the brew was a great station in seattle sadly it's gone but this awesome tune lives on.
Song meaning from the songwriter. According to a 1995 interview with the writer in Spin magazine: "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."
Music is about what you wish it to be about. To put a label on art to me is wrong. If we labeled every artwork with a set meaning no one would be interested in art. I am surprised that anyone writing songs like this in the 90s would give an origin for a song.
+Ricky Creech If art just means what you want it to mean then it is intrinsically meaningless. Do you think art is meaningless? It also means that literally everything can be 'art'. Any word that describes everything, describes nothing. If all that is true then this song could be about sensible car maintenance. It isn't. It's about exactly what the songwriter says its about. If you get something else from it, that's all well and good but it does have an intended meaning. It also has a crystal clear narrative. I can use my computer monitor as a paperweight but it wasn't intended for that. I am perpetually puzzled as to why people who are into art/music want it to be meaningless.
"The band dedicated this to Barbara Lewis, one of their high school friends who was killed by a drunk driver around the time this song was written. Her brother in-law Cory told us the story: The song's lyrics are mostly an analogy. Barb donated several organs, including her heart. She was close with Ed and the guys and died in a car collision with a fleeing armed robber. These lyrics are constantly misunderstood! Yes, Ed is speaking to the circle of life, but specifically to how Barb's life gave new life to many. The angel, the baby down the hall, the pale blue eyes (of Barb), the pain ("confusion")... the lyrics are wholly Ed's interpretation of his experience and perception of Barb's impact. Our family has become close with the most genuine and caring man who is still alive today (over 10 years later), who has Barb's heart beating in his chest! "Lightning Crashes" literally lives on." I heard the story on the radio and looked it up.
i just heard this song for the first time on the radio and i had to sit in the parking lot until it finished. Quarantine 2020 has obviously been really emotional and heartbreaking for so many, this was great to hear. I had never heard this song before so I just turned up the volume and sat as the song got progressively better and better. Crazy amazing.
APandolfo reservehero I was born 3 months after my great grandfather died. My family always says how we share so many characteristics. It's kinda cool. Perhaps I'm a reincarnation.
I see and interpret this song as one mother giving up something for someone else's loving gain. Not necessarily that my birth mother died, but that her soul may have died out a bit. I am truly grateful for my birth mother giving me life and giving my mom and dad an opportunity to fulfill their dream of having a family. Much respect and love for both families.
the transferrence of life, how one life which is snuffed out another life is born, the preciousness of life is what i think the song is about...and also how we dont know when we will die inevitably but we can be certain another will be given life ..both haunting and bittersweet at the same time....the beauty of life.
40 days before I gave birth to my son I held my Mother's hand as she died from CLL...she was 44 and I was 21. But giving birth to my son, I felt closer to my Mom in that moment than I did when I gave birth to my daughter months prior with Mom right down the hall (yes, my kids are close). This song hits differently for me bc the second I found out I was pregnant with my son I called my Mom and cried and told her (bc I wasn't supposed to be able to have 1 kid much less more), "Momma, I'm pregnant...What if God is letting me have another baby bc He knows you're gonna go soon?" We both knew. I'll never forget those last hours holding her hand walking her into heaven. My son was so still until she took that last breath and then he started moving around again.
I lost my only son. This song makes me think of him and the thre babies that died in my womb. So much sadness. This song is the only one that reminds me of all four of them. Thank you for sharing it with the grieving mothers of 5he world. It helps the tears fall and that is something that we all need!
For my senior year English AP class, we could chose a song on the radio and write an essay on the lyrics & I chose Lightning Crashes. I haven’t heard it in years - always loved Live ❤️
Very powerful Street! Lightning crashes could be from Life. Came close to dying on the table and my first born also. It was divine intervention at the end . Sometimes it is not our time yet! Peace sir, m
I heard this when i smoked crack for the first time. Im now an alcoholic with many drug addictions, if u see this please get help its not worth it. Someone loves you i promise
Oh I 🙏the Rolling Stones cover this one!!! On another 🎶, As my son shared and it seems to be a generational 💎, I dedicate now to my dear beloved mama of nine, who passed in 4/2016. I💖U4ever 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
My mom passed away at 41, and me and brother were young...taking care of her funeral, and we were sitting in the car picking out songs to play for it...we were playing rocketing by elton john, saying okay that's the one..while crying..turned it off, and this played on the radio, and he jumped the back seat...this was her telling us this was it..we cried. I miss everyday mamabeat, I love you with all my heart and soul. 💔 Gone but never forgotton... Life's unfair.
This song I heard when I was younger due to my brother Eddie he passed away and the song just brings chills to my heart and it reminds me of my brother and so many good beautiful memories
Love this song.... Sends shivers through my body.... I can listen to this one over and over... One of my all Time Fav songs!!! Reminds me of being 16 pregnant and fighting the world to not make me give my baby away........ All My feelings 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 his eyes!
I was in a shop and heard this song and it felt so familiar to me and I found myself singing along so googled it and realised I heard this song in One Tree Hill over 10 years ago.
I don't think I've ever seen a lyrics video on RUclips where all the lyrics are correct. this song is about getting back on your feet and not letting dark forces over take you with evil. This piece of music is genius! It never ceases to stir my soul💜
This song means so much to me when I had my first daughter I had complications it was the happiest moment of my life !!! But at the same time my boyfriends mother was dying of cancer - it was a happy & sad time
With it being memorial weekend I’ve been listening to this song on repeat for a couple days now every time I’ve played it I’ve had my eyes fill with tears. I’ve lost a bunch of close family members but the one that hasn’t eased off any is the day my cousin passed in 2010 so to a car accident. He was 22 and 9 years older than me. He was my role model. More of a brother than a cousin. I miss you (Don-Don) Donald Atkins
What a powerful voice and his range. There is so much energy and emotion in his voice. I listen to this song back when I was 13 and rocked out and laughed. Listening to it now at 40 it brings unfamiliar tears to my eyes. It is both sad and sweet but the sentiment of the song I believe is most powerful. Now that I've lived a bit and seen plenty people far better than me go under the sun and I cannot put it to words what exactly it makes me feel. But I like it.
Never understood the words to this song until I listened to it in labor after my sister died a year earlier this song finally become clear. My daughter was born and I name her after my sister died. When it say the angel closes her eyes I can feel my sister she was also a mother. This song 🎵 in labor was God and my sister saying be strong. This was one of her favorites I see why I cry everytime😭😇🥰sad happy tears it was one of her favorites sister I finally understand I played it for baby gypsii tonight.
❤❤🙏🙏
Ride on brother. Let our souls pass on to a different parallel. Let it.
Did your sister die in labor?
Thank you for sharing ....
This is so sad but beautiful. I'm sorry for your loss. Your sister was there with you on that night to help you through. & she's still there.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
after 2 decades.. this darn, beautiful song makes me cry .
Agreed babe it's intense as f really
Me too crying right now lol
it is not beautiful : (
@@chrisgardiner2215 Hello! This is the real you! My name is Lewis Robert Burton Jr!
@@chrisgardiner2215 Right. Not beautiful. More of a mourning, but an emotional release that needs to come out.
Goose bumps man. Haunting lyrics, and such emotion in his voice. The power of music man. Love.
I lost my mother 13 minutes prior to giving birth to my son. She died of COVID on a ventilator. He was born on a ventilator because he was born 9 weeks early. 04-11-2020 ❤ I believe she gave up her fight to give him her fighting spirit
I'm sorry for your lost. Just know every time you look at your baby boy, she's behind those eyes watching over you and him. She'll forever watch over you and your family with a huge smile on her face. Even though her heart may have stopped, her love and compassion never will.
I’m very both so sad and so happy for you. May God keep you and bless you, this is an incredibly moving time for you & all of us going through this horrible virus. Stay safe & well!
Wow... life & love are symbiotic ( *, _ *)
Emily Scarbrough I’m am so very sorry Emily
so sorry to read this
This was played at my brother's funeral. Devin Micheal Rheinhardt 1992-2019
They played the bagpipes at my Brother's funeral. Not just one piper, a whole band.
I'm sorry RIP
MrJgreig72. - Her Scottish Father, bring Sound - from 'Far Off', Pllayed The B - Pipes, at Good Friends', WEDDING:
" NOT ONE 'DRY EYE' "
Rip
May he rest in peace and you have peace
Music will never be the same. This is art.
2024!! Who’s with me here?? Listening to it today, it hits different.
No shit.
I was about to graduate high school when this song came out. My mom told me that I was missing school to take her to the doctor, I think it was a day after okc bombing. This song was playing on the radio when I was driving home with Mom after she had a spinal tap performed after a recommendation of a doctor, and she was sitting next to me in the passenger seat in agony. We found out later that day she was diagnosed with leukemia, and unfortunately, she passed away seven months later after chemo treatments and a bone marrow transplant. For a long time I couldn't listen to this song with out crying remembering how poorly Mom felt that day and how much our lives changed because she became sick. She passed away at 46- now I am two years younger than she was when she passed on. I love you, Mom.
God bless your mothers soul 🦋
God bless you and your mother. This song brings tears to my eyes. I lost my brother to Leukemia. He was 47...
This hit me. Oraciones. God bless your heart
Lots of health
I am so sorry my dad died in Vietnam war he was in the special forces he got killed by a mine
my uncle wanted this song played at his funeral and in May of 2001 we sent him home to this song. R.I.P. Uncle love and miss you!!!!!!!!
J Smiles I played this for my cousin at her funeral I play this song everyday feel her spirits
I think I would like it played at my funeral too.
J Smiles 😢
J Smiles 78i Oki
J Smiles
Must have been a cool guy
My baby boy passed away and I all I can do is hope his soul is helping another little one out there be brave and strong. Jesus this song makes me weep.
Bless you and your son! I'm sorry for your loss.
Sorry for your loss May God bless you
I am so sorry
He is with Jesus and your yearning for him will bring you both back together, when you leave this veil ❤
When we pass over we will meet our offspring again.
One dies another is born
This song makes me want to just close my eyes and sway side to side..
Ap00 plop LLP
Hell yeah...this song reminds me of the mid 90s in fall i listened to the LIVE album this song was on over and over so 20 years later walking in the woods in the fall listening to this song...yeah...damn amazing how a song can take you back
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the most peaceful depressing song ever. love it
Creo que más que deprimente es muy triste
Makes me feel alive idk..
Bro don't be depressed, this song is about how wonderful reencarnation is, and how the cycle of dying and reborn again give us another opportunity. I was sad when my father died but now I Know he's living again, in another body (avatar) but our soul is inmortal. Just live every day thankfully bro
Perfect translation 👌
I've heard it a million times on the radio, and even sang along, but I never knew. I never listened. And now that I have, goosebumps lighten my skin.
This was my labor song 🙏I cry everytime I named her after my sister who use to play this song in the 90s and I never understood it till 2019 in labor try feel her spirit and I definitely did still do when I play it
@@thaliaandgypsy1353 I know how you feel it makes me think of old memories when I was little
Goosebumps everytime!
Yes The Exact Lyrics Are Inspirational!!
This one will never get old. Soooo many memories, dreams and moments. Surely an anthem of the better days of music. At 43 still makes me feel the poetry behind the lyrics like the first time I listened this master piece. I was 17 at the time
Amen brother
The cars back then were so badass😎🔥
This piece of music is genius! It never ceases to stir my soul💜
Joyce McKennon stir-fryday
One of my dad’s favourite songs RIP dad we will always miss you 😢
Just I literally get a feeling in my body when i listen to live this specific song is touching 1000%. One of lives most heartfelt 🖤❤️
This is the song that was played at my older brothers memorial.. I remember it started playing before i even walked into the church it was being held at and i just broke down, fell to my knees and cried uncontrollably. i knew I would cry hard so i didn't even go in the doors of the church where the memorial actually was being held and as everyone was leaving all of his friends who knew me came up to me and one by one crouched down and hugged me and told me how much he loved me and always talked about me in one way or another if not be worrying about me, defending me , or how I inspired him to be the person he was. I remember everyday that we spent together growing up we were 5 1/2 years apart, and he taught me so many things in this life. He was my best friend, he was my hero, and he was my older brother. The feeling of missing him hasn't faded away and i dont think it ever will as a matter of fact i think the feeling of his absence in life has grown even more since the day he took his own life on july 22 2010 at the age of 24 and i was 19. Honestly words cant really express or explain the pain of losing someone so close to you it's unfair. I love and miss you Michael Scott Anderson
Can’t ever beat the 90s. Raised in the 90s and wouldn’t have it any other way.
Except perhaps the 80’s
@@deathrider365 and @somafera sorry to both of you, the 70s was the best time to be a teen 😂. Bit of a joke that one, because the best time to be alive is obviously following whenever you're born. But here's my case to a presumably music-loving group: when I was 17 among the shows i saw, front row (because rock concerts were general admission then, and if you wanted it you got it, and I did) for $10-14 per ticket: Led Zeppelin, Queen and ACDC the latter as the warm-up band for Foreigner. We walked out when Foreigner came on, that's how high our standards could afford to be back then. I now open the floor for arguments about why the 60s/80s/90s/00s/10s were/are better. PS if there's anybody still alive and on RUclips reading and typing who wants to put in a good word for the 30s 40s 50s, have at it 🙂
80's were better.
@@MrJgreig72 I agree. 90s was a good 2nd. But the 70s were cool too, even the 60s! But 80s is all time top! 🤷♂️😁👏
Definitely the 80's, my teenage years from 82-87 I'd love to have back lol
I introduced my son to this song years ago , he loves it so much that we listen to it every day. Parentaward 2021!!!
Indeed!
No entiendo por qué este grupo no fué más popular, tienen canciones grandiosas
My mother passed away a few days after my birth from complications. I've always taken this song to heart, especially the lyric "the confusion that was her's belongs now to the baby down the hall".
Yes its touching on so many levels im sorry 😞 this happened o know your mother love is stronger then life itself
My mom almost died 4 times in her life, she wasnt very lucky with her health. Today was her last surgery and she made it. Im proud of her, she is strong. Im with you❤💜
James Peticca
May God Be with you today and all days.
We live in a spiritual realm…
There is darkness and there is light…
Good and evil…
Jesus is The Light.
James
Kamloops BC Canada 🍁
Me and my brother heard this on the station in the car, acouple days after we lost our mom.
We chose this for her funeral, it was her... I miss her so much. I love you mamabear
R.I.Heaven💔
I recall my senior years.
Though I couldn't relate much to the song then.........I loved the sound and the lyrics and everything the song offered...... Now after more than 25years I was driving my teenaged daughter back to her hostel and she played this song on Spotify through the car's stereo. I simply stopped the car and my mind drifted to my high school days of carefree fun.
Now I better understand the deepness of this song. I lost my Mom 20 yrs back, to lung cancer. I lost my Dad 10yrs back to a road accident. And some 8yrs back my wife was diagnosed with Bronchial cancer, though we fought and won.
Life is wonderful, because there are songs like this.
This is such a masterpiece .
My husband pass away in Febuary the 8th. I play this song. They don't make music like this anymore
Amber Hartman my condolences
Sorry for your loss Amber
My grandfather passed on my brother's birthday, February 8th. I listen to this song and it gives me hope.
Amber Hartman sorry for your loss honey... god bless you & yours
They certainly do not make it like this anymore. So sorry for your loss.
OMG...songs like this..bring back so many memories from my childhood.Everytime I hear this I just wanna pick up the phone and sing along to it to my dad.He'd get a kick outta hearing this again after so many years!So much good music we forget about as time goes on and more artists come about!!! This is when ALL MUSIC WAS AT ITS BEST,ALL GENRES!
Wow very soulful song from Live...still listening in November 24, 2019
But did you listen in the 90s as a kid like i did unaware of the greatness before yourself? Lol. Amazing getting to still listen to this given the outcome of my family
3//2020.
@@robchapman1786 yes Sir I listen this song since I was 14 years old. I bought an LP album from LiVE the throwing copper at that time. Now ,I'm relaxing this Saturday morning.
...and also, I know how to play a guitar of this song ..acoustic
we all grew up to this band's amazing throwing copper album. It was a great time to be alive in America. It'll never quite be the same again but we will carry the memories with us till the end. Cheers to my fellow late 70s early 80s babies 🍺
How blessed I am to have 2 beautiful grandbabies and son..this song humbles me and chokes me up at the same time because it doesn't always turn out that way.💯🙏
One of my favorite songs. Loved them in concert in ‘97.
I hemorrhaged after I had my daughter. I had no blood pressure and the doctors told my family that I had 15 minutes before I was dead. Long story short, my daughter is almost 25 now and planning her first baby. God seen me through this and with his grace, I will see her baby being born. This song was very popular when I gave birth to her and still hold a special place in my heart.
God wasn’t finished with you here ❤️
WoW you are amazing let gods love shine through
God bless you and the fam
Thank you for fighting on momma! Every child loves you for your strength and love
when music was real and beautiful.
1994. I would say 1968.
Got to know that myself!!!!!!
Before censorship
That is why it's timeless. So we bring it back for the youth. The 90s was great music. Great comment. 🙂
Disagree. Kind of melodic but very simple and depressing.
This song is a fantastic piece of musical genius by a great band !
A moment of silence for those who haven't found this song yet.
Haha, great comment
Every kid on tictoc..please let this song belong to our generation
@@joeltorres1379 I feel 50/50. I'm glad to have had the chance to experience this first hand, but without younger kids. Rock and music as we know it will fade out. I want people to keep making music like this... so I can grow old knowing that something like this will forever continue.
OR SEE THEM LIVE LITERALLY
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This one goes out to those we lost in 2020. May they rest in peace forever.
Lighting crashed on all of us, and if you’re listening to this right now, you made it.
@@Mechaman1990 Death is also inevitable, no fountain of youth exists.
Yes. I was one of the few to survive a virus with a 99% survival rate, lightning is crashing around me.
.. I don't think you know what this songs about? It mentions death yes but it's about reincarnation
I'll always make it
@@tuberdumb7377absolutely...or the transferrence of life, how one life which is snuffed out another life is born, the preciousness of life is what i think the song is about...and also how we dont know when we will die inevitably but we can be certain another will be given life ..both haunting and bittersweet at the same time....the beauty of life.
Today 11/05/2021, my kid brother and his woman had there first child, a beautiful baby girl. The angel opens her eyes, Alana, welcome to the family, we love you, and God bless. As to the angel that closed her eyes this morning, we thank you more than you could know. God bless and keep you. Amen
this song is about getting back on your feet and not letting dark forces over take you with evil.
For you.
No it's not
@@benrolfes3681 people interpret songs differently, they embrace what it means to them.
It's about the birth of his daughter
It’s about his sister that lost her baby during childbirth...
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 coming back again
Like a rolling thunder chasing the wind
Forces pulling 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
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
I can feel it
I can feel it coming back again
Like a rolling thunder chasing the wind
Forces pulling from the center of the Earth again
I can feel it
I can feel it coming back again
Like a rolling thunder chasing the wind
Forces pulling from the center of the Earth again
I can feel it
I can feel it coming back again
Like a rolling thunder chasing the wind
Forces pulling from the center of the Earth again
I can feel it
I can feel it
I can feel it
🖤
My stepfather took his life Saturday. This was his favorite song. And I never knew, or heard it until now. I'll miss you Leonard Oliver High
My most heartfelt regrets. Sometime sad and beautiful music soothes our soul.
It's not just the music that has changed. It's so very sad. I'm glad I grew up in the good times
I'm age 51.
This just came on the radio and brought back all the 90s feels
What a song. It’s both wonderful and depressing at the same time. This song is so powerful and the images it conjures up are forever etched in memory.
So he yells and you and tells you what to do all the time? .....Be strong!
Rest in peace, Mr. Jimmy...idk why but this song makes me think you you...I loved you like a grandfather and I always will
i think this is actually the best song ive ever heard
sam jam I agree
*Brandy Lollis*
One of the best atleast
It's definitely up there
My reaction when I first heard it. Love at first heard lol.
I remember I used to hear this song all the time when I would walk to school. Listing to my old mini radio mp3 player. Because I was broke. the brew was a great station in seattle sadly it's gone but this awesome tune lives on.
My all time favorite song. It brings me back to childhood innocence
Song meaning from the songwriter. According to a 1995 interview with the writer in Spin magazine:
"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."
Music is about what you wish it to be about. To put a label on art to me is wrong. If we labeled every artwork with a set meaning no one would be interested in art. I am surprised that anyone writing songs like this in the 90s would give an origin for a song.
No one would be interested? Really. Not a fan of "Behind the Music" then?
I was talking about more than music
+Ricky Creech If art just means what you want it to mean then it is intrinsically meaningless. Do you think art is meaningless? It also means that literally everything can be 'art'. Any word that describes everything, describes nothing. If all that is true then this song could be about sensible car maintenance. It isn't. It's about exactly what the songwriter says its about. If you get something else from it, that's all well and good but it does have an intended meaning. It also has a crystal clear narrative. I can use my computer monitor as a paperweight but it wasn't intended for that. I am perpetually puzzled as to why people who are into art/music want it to be meaningless.
"The band dedicated this to Barbara Lewis, one of their high school friends who was killed by a drunk driver around the time this song was written. Her brother in-law Cory told us the story:
The song's lyrics are mostly an analogy. Barb donated several organs, including her heart. She was close with Ed and the guys and died in a car collision with a fleeing armed robber. These lyrics are constantly misunderstood! Yes, Ed is speaking to the circle of life, but specifically to how Barb's life gave new life to many. The angel, the baby down the hall, the pale blue eyes (of Barb), the pain ("confusion")... the lyrics are wholly Ed's interpretation of his experience and perception of Barb's impact. Our family has become close with the most genuine and caring man who is still alive today (over 10 years later), who has Barb's heart beating in his chest! "Lightning Crashes" literally lives on."
I heard the story on the radio and looked it up.
i just heard this song for the first time on the radio and i had to sit in the parking lot until it finished. Quarantine 2020 has obviously been really emotional and heartbreaking for so many, this was great to hear. I had never heard this song before so I just turned up the volume and sat as the song got progressively better and better. Crazy amazing.
3 days before I was born, My grandfather died. People say I am the new life from his death.
APandolfo reservehero I was born 3 months after my great grandfather died. My family always says how we share so many characteristics. It's kinda cool. Perhaps I'm a reincarnation.
@Ariel Herben he or she already existed. What would be weird is if someone found out they were pregnant 2 weeks after a member of the family died.
Just like baby Yoda is actually Yoda renicarnated in the Mandalorian. Same thing
Life's a mistery.. an' life's good. . . 🎱💖🎇
That’s awesome!
I see and interpret this song as one mother giving up something for someone else's loving gain. Not necessarily that my birth mother died, but that her soul may have died out a bit. I am truly grateful for my birth mother giving me life and giving my mom and dad an opportunity to fulfill their dream of having a family. Much respect and love for both families.
the transferrence of life, how one life which is snuffed out another life is born, the preciousness of life is what i think the song is about...and also how we dont know when we will die inevitably but we can be certain another will be given life ..both haunting and bittersweet at the same time....the beauty of life.
40 days before I gave birth to my son I held my Mother's hand as she died from CLL...she was 44 and I was 21. But giving birth to my son, I felt closer to my Mom in that moment than I did when I gave birth to my daughter months prior with Mom right down the hall (yes, my kids are close). This song hits differently for me bc the second I found out I was pregnant with my son I called my Mom and cried and told her (bc I wasn't supposed to be able to have 1 kid much less more), "Momma, I'm pregnant...What if God is letting me have another baby bc He knows you're gonna go soon?" We both knew. I'll never forget those last hours holding her hand walking her into heaven. My son was so still until she took that last breath and then he started moving around again.
Another death to mourn another child is born another chapter in the play-savatage🙏🏻
I listened to this song as I drove home after my mother died. Beautiful song. ❤
great tune! still strumming along in 2021
I lost my only son. This song makes me think of him and the thre babies that died in my womb. So much sadness. This song is the only one that reminds me of all four of them. Thank you for sharing it with the grieving mothers of 5he world. It helps the tears fall and that is something that we all need!
This song has always found its way back to me. Beautifully done
Where have I heard this song before I swear i've heard it a million times yet I only find it randomly now.
For my senior year English AP class, we could chose a song on the radio and write an essay on the lyrics & I chose Lightning Crashes. I haven’t heard it in years - always loved Live ❤️
The 90’s had the best music
Oh how the memories start to flow with this song. Love it!
So raw very first chord very first time you hear it every time I hear it. MASTERPIECE
So nostalgic
It was written because a friend lost a baby. This is a tribute.
Great music and great lyrics.
A strong and touching song.
I was thinking it was the mother that dies? Not the baby! Are you sure?
It was actually written about a lifelong friend of his who passed away
Yes if I remember right she wrote it at age 17 and died not too long after
Very powerful Street! Lightning crashes could be from Life. Came close to dying on the table and my first born also. It was divine intervention at the end . Sometimes it is not our time yet! Peace sir, m
My brother died recently, this song almost answers that question of “why”
Yellowjackets 2023 ✨️
After about a year of not hearing this song, all I remembered was "Rollin' thunder chasing the wind."
I finally found it!
Just lost my grandmother, it was definitely time. This song brings me comfort.
I lost my mom at only 54 yrs of age we used to listen to this song in hospice RIP momma
I’m sorry for your loss. May she be granted eternal peace.
I heard this when i smoked crack for the first time. Im now an alcoholic with many drug addictions, if u see this please get help its not worth it. Someone loves you i promise
Hey, how ya doing? You ok? You Are So Very Loved...I'm Here♥️✨
This song was a slow dance favourite back in high school lol
Oh I 🙏the Rolling Stones cover this one!!!
On another 🎶,
As my son shared and it seems to be a generational 💎,
I dedicate now to my dear beloved mama of nine, who passed in 4/2016.
I💖U4ever
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
One dies another is born
My mom passed away at 41, and me and brother were young...taking care of her funeral, and we were sitting in the car picking out songs to play for it...we were playing rocketing by elton john, saying okay that's the one..while crying..turned it off, and this played on the radio, and he jumped the back seat...this was her telling us this was it..we cried.
I miss everyday mamabeat, I love you with all my heart and soul.
💔
Gone but never forgotton...
Life's unfair.
This song I heard when I was younger due to my brother Eddie he passed away and the song just brings chills to my heart and it reminds me of my brother and so many good beautiful memories
i remember watching the video along time ago when i use to live in florida i liked the song then and still do to this day
So much emotion, absolutely incredible. I loved being a 90’s child. The nostalgia this music invokes is amazing.
Alright, who was cutting onions during this song?
sorry.
Haha!
I was..
perdedoronline I would want to like your comment... but it’s at 69 likes...
Damned invisible onion chopping ninjas. :/
actually, the song is pretty sad
Good old days.
Makes me rewind in time.
Very good song
Love this song.... Sends shivers through my body.... I can listen to this one over and over... One of my all Time Fav songs!!! Reminds me of being 16 pregnant and fighting the world to not make me give my baby away........ All My feelings 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 his eyes!
So deep every .other struggling during pregnancy this is the anthem
My one of favorite song of live band.Thank you for sharing and God bless
2020 still stuck in my head ♥️
Never, EVER get tired of this masterpiece! ❤️
It is a masterpiece
Life cycles is a beautiful thing, my niece being born and my father passing away at the same time. Such a sweet song
+Joy Simon This song does have a very deep meaning indeed.
Keeping 13 brought me here. Beautiful song ♥️
I was in a shop and heard this song and it felt so familiar to me and I found myself singing along so googled it and realised I heard this song in One Tree Hill over 10 years ago.
this song helps me when I'm down
I don't think I've ever seen a lyrics video on RUclips where all the lyrics are correct.
this song is about getting back on your feet and not letting dark forces over take you with evil.
This piece of music is genius! It never ceases to stir my soul💜
Catchiness rule all especially when combined with soul ripping lyrics. What an auditory gem.
This song means so much to me when I had my first daughter I had complications it was the happiest moment of my life !!! But at the same time my boyfriends mother was dying of cancer - it was a happy & sad time
With it being memorial weekend I’ve been listening to this song on repeat for a couple days now every time I’ve played it I’ve had my eyes fill with tears. I’ve lost a bunch of close family members but the one that hasn’t eased off any is the day my cousin passed in 2010 so to a car accident. He was 22 and 9 years older than me. He was my role model. More of a brother than a cousin. I miss you (Don-Don) Donald Atkins
Gives me goosebumps every time. 🎶
This song means a lot to me and my Family who Passed away.
Rip Uncle Ed... you can heal now 🙏🏻
1994. I think I was 17 or 18 then. Wild time in my life. This song will always have a special space in my memory.
A few words in the lyrics were off but it’s an iconic song to me.👍
What a powerful voice and his range. There is so much energy and emotion in his voice. I listen to this song back when I was 13 and rocked out and laughed. Listening to it now at 40 it brings unfamiliar tears to my eyes. It is both sad and sweet but the sentiment of the song I believe is most powerful. Now that I've lived a bit and seen plenty people far better than me go under the sun and I cannot put it to words what exactly it makes me feel. But I like it.
This song makes me want to just close my eyes and sway side to side..
Great song And I've had most of the lyrics pretty distorted in my head for over 15 years