Lightning Bolt - Jake Bugg

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[Intro]
        

[Verse 1]
             
Morning, it’s 

            
another pure g

     
rey morning
             
Don’t know wha

             
t the day is h


olding
             
When I get upt

 
ight
             
And I walk rig

             
ht into the pa

             
th of a lightn

     
ing bolt

[Verse 2]
             
Sirens of an a

            
mbulance comes

 
 howling
             
Right through 

             
the centre of 


town and
             
No one blinks 

    
an eye
             
And I look up 

              
to the sky for

             
 the path of a

           
 lightning bol

t

[Verse 3]
             
Met her as the

            
 angels parted

  
 for her
             
But she only b

          
rought me tort

ure
             
But that’s wha

   
t happens
             
When it’s you 

              
who’s standing

             
 in the path o

             
f a lightning 

 
bolt

[Chorus]

Everyone I see

 just walks th

e walk with gr

itted teeth
           
But I just sta

nd by and I wa

it my time
             
They say you g

otta toe the l

ine they want 

the water not 

the wine
             
But when I see

             
 the signs I j

             
ump on that li

        
ghtning bolt

[Verse 4]
             
Chances, peopl

            
e tell you not

          
 to take chanc

es
             
When they tell

             
 you there are

         
n’t any answer

s
            
And I was star

         
ting to agree
              
But I awoke su

              
ddenly in the 

            
path of a ligh

       
tning bolt

[Verse 5]
             
Fortune, peopl

            
e talking all 

       
about fortune
             
Do you make it

             
 or does it ju

    
st call you
             
In the blinkin

        
g of an eye
             
Just another p

              
asser by in th

            
e path of a li

         
ghtning bolt

[Chorus]

Everyone I see

 just walks th

e walk with gr

itted teeth
           
But I just sta

nd by and I wa

it my time
             
They say you g

otta toe the l

ine they want 

the water not 

the wine
             
But when I see

             
 the signs I j

             
ump on that li

        
ghtning bolt

[Verse 6]
             
It was silent,

             
 I was lying b

            
ack gazing sky

ward
            
When the momen

         
t got shattere

d
             
I remembered w

         
hat she said
              
And then she f

            
led in the pat

             
h of a lightni

    
ng bolt