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Discussion: Live - Lightning Crashes Pages: 1 2 What's the story behind this song?>>By dsa31 First part - mother gives birth and gives the baby up for adoption or something. Second part - Adoptive mother gets baby. The end. >>By Pinky No way. The mother days during childbirth. Right? >>By Someone its about one woman giving birth and another woman dying, using this as an example of the external forces affecting our lives. I think 'lightening crashes' is the title to show how these forces can affect us anywhere and suddenly, with great impact. If u like it u should listen to the whole throwing copper album, its beautiful. >>By mr man A woman has a baby, she dies, and her intentions are now gone. Now the confusion that was the mother's, is now the new born baby's. Like lightening; forces pull from heaven down to earth and then back up into heaven like thunder chasing the wind. Another woman adopts the baby, she cries, she's been waiting for the baby to open her eyes and the woman is so happy to be her mother and she forgets that the baby's real mother (glory) has died and she hides that glory. ??? I'm really not sure... >>By Anna This song is about a new mother who just had a baby. The mother dies. Her intentions ( to have a baby) fall to the floor. The baby opens her eyes. Her mother( confused about what just happened) is taken to heaven, but like a guardian angel she watches over her baby on earth. The mother makes sure her baby gets a new mother to take care it. The baby is adopted and now the baby is the one confused about who it's real mother is. The adoptive mother cries because she is so happy to have the baby. The baby opens it's blue eyes and looks at it's new mother. The title-"Ligtning Crashes" stands for how our lives can change in an instant and so unexpectantly >>By Mal Ps: Also the baby's eyes (a circle) represent life's cycle. The part where it says glory is hidden it is saying that The adoptive mother forgets to realize that without the baby's real mother dying she would not have a baby. >>By Mal I must say, I didn`t like rock, but THIS song made me like it! Beautiful, sensitive and sexy voice! >>By Ewa For words, when they say the glory hides is refering to the adoptive mother hiding the identity of the real mother to the baby. When the angel closes her eyes is the sign that the real mother has died, and when the angle opens her eyes is when the adoptive mother gets the baby. >>By adam The song is actually pretty easy to interpret. It's about reincarnation-- the old addage that for every birth their is a death and the soul of the person who dies is transferred to a new life. Thus, a new mother gives birth to a baby and the "angel" (i.e. the baby) opens her eyes--the confusion sets in. Down the hall an "old mother" (just meaning an old woman) dies (they are probably in a hospital). Her intentions fall to the floor (her hopes, her dreams, etc) and the confusion that was hers now belongs to the baby down the hall (as does her spirit-- i.e. reincarnation). >>By erika i agree wit ericka on dat. >>By macvoy Erika definitely has it right. Look at the lyrics. There are two women, the old mother and the new. mother The new one has just given birth, the old one has just died. The confusion of the old mother is now passed on the the baby who was born as she lay dying. Where in the world did you guys get adoption from? >>By midori No doubt about it... Life goes on. Someone dies, someone is born. It has nothing to do with adoption! Life is a circle, it goes round and round. We are born, then we die. >>By Morningstar I've heard thar this song is about one of the band members wife or girldfriend who died giving birth... Has anyone else heard this story >>By Kristian erika is right the song is about reincarnation if you keep that meaning in your head when you listen to the song or read the lyrics it will all make sense >>By ash She is a friend from highschool and died in a car accident. The song is dedicated to her. She's called Barbara Lewis. >>By Bianca This song is DEFFINETLY not about adoption, children, blah blah blah. This song, I originally thought about living and dieing. The baby and the mother...but it is DEFFINETLY about rising and falling. Live is DEEP. Rebeldrifter55 ( aim ) Jjc1213 ( YAHOO IM ) >>By Jason It's about life. In a hospital... i think the two mothers are two different women. It's got a sort of sad beginning... the confusion sets in with the first mother, something has happened to the baby. The second mother, dies. But then the song becomes more upbeat... it shows that just down the hall life is emerging. It is about hope, and the cycle of life. >>By grunge One of my all time favorite songs. I've always wondered about its meaning. My assumptions have been pretty close to those listed on this site. Anyone know if the band members have offered an interpretation? Also, please recommend another great album by Live. ---Peace and thanks! >>By Jim I have no bloody idea what it was about - so i came here - and by the sounds of it - none of you do either! Although i do agree about how its the circle of life - but also, why was it dedicated to someone , and did they die at child birth? So far i think - there are two mothers giving birth, in the first bit, something goes wrong and they dont know what is happening, the mother dies due to...external factors and the baby dies as well - for some reason. However all this sadness is masked by the elation being experienced by the family down the hall way and yeah - IF ANYONE ACUTALLY KNOWS - THE REAL STORY BEHIND IT - luisa@hotmail.com >>By Luisa from Australia There is only one mother in my opinion, and there is a woman dying down the hall who is experiancing the same confusion as the baby who is making his/her entrance into life, as she is leaving hers. As the baby is born, making it's entrance with all the confusion of what's happening etc... the old woman dying is entering the last stage of life which is death. All the references to nature are known in literature as holy symbols(under most circumstances) and are used in the song to create a more upbeat felling to the listener because death is usually associated with such sorrow, but live doesn't intend it to be a depressing song. They just wanted to make their own statement about life. >>By anonymous i just have to say that uts about a mother dying while given birth and davin is wrong wrong wrong!!!!!!! >>By Clare I think this song is about a new mother giving birth and dying after the child is born.Then the child is adopted by a new mother.It has many meaning I think.Anonymous's meaning might be the right one but who knows? There should be a place where the real meaning is placed! >>By Catherine I think you guys are all wrong. Its about a soccer game idiots. A guy scores a goal and a mother dies. SHEESH! >>By Hairy This is my one of my favourite songs....second to overcome by live. it is not about adoption, its about the circle of life...as a life ends a new one begins and so it goes on. notice how the angel closes her eyes on death and opens them when a new life is born. Death is the end of one persons hopes and dreams and intentions, yet birth is the beginning of new hopes and dreams. I think lightning crashes is used to describe the sudden impact of new life and loss. I think they are saying life...in a sense is eternal.... it just goes on and on. >>By vixen From Spin Magazine: He smiles, exhales, and begins. "I wrote 'Lightning Crashes' on an acoustic guitar in my brother's bedroom shortly before I had moved out of my parents' house and gotten my first place of my own." Kowalczyk says that the video for "Lightning Crashes" lends itself to many misinterpretations of the song's intent. "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. The dedication to Barbara Lewis came after the song was written. But it was something that we hoped would honor the memory of a girl we grew up with and help her family cope with sorrow -- which it seems to have accomplished -- in a fashion in keeping with the theme of the song." >>By justin@1-x.net From what i've heard its dedicated to a woman who was killed by a drunk driver. Hence the name Lightning CRASHES. Ie her life was taken away in a crash and it happened quickly. >>By Scott Those are probably the most amazing lyrics I've ever heard. You really gotta love lyrics such as "Lightening Crashes". Even though alot of you misinterepeted the lyrics, look at what other meanings you created for yourselves. When I first looked at all your comments I was able to believe pretty much all the ideas that were brought forth. Well, I guess what I am trying to say in a nutshell is that I really enjoyed reading everyone's perspective on this song. Who would of thought that lyrics personally written subjectively from the artist could become so objective in the minds of its listeners. AIM - Eggomatic314 >>By Al I don't think this song is about what Live wanted it to mean, its about how you as the listener interprets it. It will have different meanings for everyone and I think thats the idea of it *shrugs* >>By InsanE It sounds to me like Mother Nature at work...open your eyes and you'll see her all around U... >>By Rich Pages: 1 2
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