White Flash Lyrics

gone, gone the days

we'd sit outside and watch the weathervane

gone the smell of summer rain

gone the midnight drives and passing trains



gone, gone the nights

when we would lay and dream of another life

a golden child, a scarlet wife

would turn to dust, the same, when the end arrived



we were scared of the days to come

we could only hope our fear would make us numb

but when you smiled, did it feel so wrong?

beneath the blown out husk of an atom bomb

it won't be quite so bad when it finally comes

it's just a bright, white flash and then it's gone

before the lights go out for good

before the flash consumes us whole

a crack on the horizon grows

and opens up its blinding jaws

before the lights go out for good

before the flash consumes us whole

before we boil in its embrace

I gaze across your freckled face

and your sweat beads in every pore

as our shadows flee across the floor

and fire fills your frightened eyes

as the groaning glow intensifies

and your features shine in sharp relief

your soul exposed in a moment brief

your fears and your hopes and your memories

the one I was always meant to see