At The End Of The Lightning lyrics - Del Amitri

The western approaches go by in a flash

And the joke I call home is just a party I crash

So I lie on the pillow so desperate to go

Back to the playground of the show

I look from the window, watch the world standing still

Feel the floorboards sliding with just the force of will

I taste the dirt of the cities that I thundered through

See the battalions of taxis that I fell into

At the end of the lightning is the life that I know

I hit the ground like a hailstone and melt into the flow

As you lay dying

I was coasting on a shaky stage

Living large at the end of the lightning

Tearing out another page

My five o'clock shadow has turned to midnight snow

I share laughs with your widow, but the punchline I don't wanna know

I pine for the motion and long for the van to go

Be at the other end of the lightning with the ground so far below