Notorious Lightning

Oh, notorious lightning

Yes I had to ride you

And crash the crystal jets they kept in storage inside you

I was told never to quesiton it

Now I'm facing twenty years for every night I tried to ingest the snow so lightly, huh?

You simply couldn't put down the black book

You dreamt the dreams of the self-taught man

You warn the ladies not to be corrupted by their looks

But your voice comes out soft and slanted

And you're living off what the government granted you

Amnesty from the true thing

Now, Sandra, slowly remove the ring

And watch notorious lightning surround you

I lay myself down to observe your gilded jeans hit the ground and have not grown from this worship

I lay myself down to surrender

Watch the trust funds gorge us again

And have not grown from this worship

So, great pretender, pull a face

Let's see the best forlorn you know

Just don't sing Barricades in the Morning

It's been three days in a row

And it never comes off like you planned it

Something once was delivered, then you banned it

But oh, there is a key to this thing, notorious lightning

There is a monument

There is a place within it that I have won

And there is victory at sea

And then there's the sun

Crashing down upon us

Faithful readership of the old warden, we beg

No, not another ode to the garden

You've let the book of appeals pile up

So, child of the east

It's time to shrug off the beast

And take a look at what you've done

The half-breed jury agrees you're okay

But what they never seem to say

Is that it's never the defense's witness

And someone's got to fall before someone goes free