[Intro: ]

Em 

Verse 1: 

Em                               C           G 
Sometimes when I'm thinkin' that love's not around 
   Am          Em          Am           B7 
My heart begins sinkin', I don't hear a sound 
        Em                        C               G 
And the world is in blackness, no light shines on me 
  Am        Em            Am        B7 
I suffer no blindness, no one can I see 
       Em                            C           G 
Then a flash from the heavens like a loud jagged wire 
        Am         Em              B7          Em 
And the silence is broken, and the night is on fire. 

Chorus: 

          Em                    C           G 
It's like chain lightning, this love that I feel. 
    Am              Em         Am           B7 
Who know's where it strikes or when it will hit, 
    Am           Em       B7                       Em 
How long it will last, or when............ it will quit. 

Chords repeated for rest of song: 

Verse 2: 

In the forest I'm burning, struck down by the blast 
The fever is churning, and the heat rises fast. 
and those standing nearest can show their concern 
but I swear if they touch me that they too will burn. 
They fear for their lives for death will soon dwell 
in the warmth of your love is the fire of hell. 

(Chorus) 

Verse 3: 

And soon the sparks scatter and wind whips the flame 
and love will soon shatter what it cannot tame 
and the cycle continues, from life into dust 
for I am now in you with the fire of lust. 
And I hear the explosion, of thunder and rain, 
the water is falling, the ashes remain. 

(Chorus) 

Verse 4: 

The Indian's tell us that the Phoenix can rise 
from the smoldering ashes that once were my eyes 
and watch beautiful colours from black and from grey 
be formed into wings and take me away 
where evil is darkness and goodness is light 
and love is the lightning that cuts through the night 
and strikes only once in a dark place in time 
and forms a gold stairway that all of us climb.