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Sbow Patrol


"The Lightning Strike"
 

[ part I - What If This Storm Ends?]

What if this storm ends?
And I don't see you
As you are now
Ever again

The perfect halo
Of gold hair and lightning
Sets you off against
The planet's last dance

Just for a minute
The silver forked sky
Lit you up like a star
That I will follow

Now it's found us
Like I have found you
I don't want to run
Just overwhelm me

What if this storm ends?
And leaves us nothing
Except a memory
A distant echo

I want pinned down
I want unsettled
Rattle cage after cage
Until my blood boils

I want to see you
As you are now
Every single day
That I am living

Painted in flames
All peeling thunder
Be the lightning in me
That strikes relentless
 

SnowPatrol-What If the Storm Ends - a Michael Pollack orchestration
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The original song by Snow Patrol just has piano and vox.   For my interpretation I decided to add rain and thunder sound effects in the intro and the outro -- after all, what would a storm be without them? The Snow Patrol version should be asking not "What if this storm ends? ", but rather, "When does the frickin' storm start already? This sounds like a piano not a storm!"

 

I also threw in some synth lead, bass guitar, drums, several acoustic and electric guitar parts, chorus, and a string section. Some 30 glorious tracks in all. 

 

I developed a melodic theme hinted at in the original. You could accuse me of beating the damn things to death.  And I got some very helpful production advice from my great friend Ace Battiste.

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