“Feel the Lightning” is the first track on Deacon’s 2015 effort, Gliss Riffer. Asked to explain the meaning of the album’s title, he invokes this song:
Well I was borrowing these robot guitars from this guy in Pittsburgh, and I started realizing how I write in these cascades and I like writing thes...
[Chorus]
Can you feel the lightning covering your skin?
It's a nightmare but you're on fire
You wait your whole life over for this moment to begin
And now it's over but you're not tired
[Verse 1]
I'm having visions, infinite visions
The same ones as you
I try not to worry, but I always worry
Until all I can do
Is wish I could stay here, feeling forever
Before I must go
Wish we could change it to before we changed it
What did we know?
[Bridge]
Ten thousand eyes and four hundred hands
And all of my arms are made of the sands
Of oceans of old that dried up and left
They became the skies and then they all wept
The first time they heard the song from Tom Petty
The one where Johnny Depp plays the rebel named Eddie
The sky was the limit and then it came crashing down
[Chorus]
Can you feel the lightning covering your skin?
It's a nightmare but you're on fire
You wait your whole life over for this moment to begin
And now it's over but you're not tired
Can you feel the lightning covering your skin?
It's a nightmare but you're on fire
You wait your whole life over for this moment to begin
And now it's over but you're not tired
[Verse 2]
I'm having visions, infinite visions
Of something new
You feel it changing, slowly but changing
About to break through
[Bridge]
Ten thousand eyes and four hundred hands
And all of my arms are made of the sands
Of oceans of old that dried up and left
They became the skies and then they all wept
The first time they heard the song from Tom Petty
The one where Johnny Depp plays the rebel named Eddie
The sky was the limit and then it came crashing down
[Chorus]
Can you feel the lightning covering your skin?
It's a nightmare but you're on fire
You wait your whole life over for this moment to begin
And now it's over but you're not tired
Can you feel the lightning covering your skin?
It's a nightmare but you're on fire
You wait your whole life over for this moment to begin
And now it's over but you're not tired
[Outro]
(I'm having visions, infinite visions, the same ones as you)
Can you feel the lightning covering your skin?
It's a nightmare but you're on fire
(I'm having visions, infinite visions of something new)
You wait your whole life over for this moment to begin
And now it's over but you're not tired
(I'm having visions, infinite visions, the same ones as you)
Can you feel the lightning covering your skin?
It's a nightmare but you're on fire
(I'm having visions, infinite visions of something new)
You wait your whole life over for this moment to begin
And now it's over but you're not tired
(I'm having visions, infinite visions, the same ones as you)
Can you feel the lightning covering your skin?
It's a nightmare but you're on fire
(I'm having visions, infinite visions of something new)
You wait your whole life over for this moment to begin
And now it's over but you're not tired
Feel the Lightning was written by Dan Deacon.
Feel the Lightning was produced by Dan Deacon.
Dan Deacon released Feel the Lightning on Thu Feb 26 2015.