By the lights of the big city

Traffic lights in the window
Lightning disco in the sky
I'm stuck in the mirror
Between thoughts of you and I

Too much self reflection
Doesn't make a nice guy
When you forget the important things you know
Like when you forget how hard to try

Lightning bolts crack the black glass sky
All that I thought I knew
Now I'm stuck in the mirror
Between thoughts of me and you

How do I separate myself from the lightning?
Creation and destruction
In the mirror's reflection
Dividing like the tram lines
Two sides of the road
Keep your Gods under different signs
Your Odin for your odes
Your Thor for ....who knew?
There were certain doors you should not walk through

Now the lights have changed from red to green
And little bells of rain ring on the window screen
And the bells of church towers are ringing in the wind
As the storm the summer promised
Comes to shatter summer dreams

Its blowing like a tempest
Come to deal out its punishment
No mercy for the faithless
Its tongue is like a serpent
Forked fiery flames
With fangs ready to strike
The ocean is no match for its electric pike
That snap and whip and maim
As it hurls its sea at us
The buoys which float in the sky are pounded into dust

It is lathering up its hands
Showering us with blood
Clapping its salty palms
Churning water into mud
Washing and rinsing up to its arms
In a Noah's flood

Slinging down all from the heavens
Sent from an all powerful judge