Children of the Lightning

from Space & Freedom by Mark Horning

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Go read Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
If you have already read it, go read it again.

lyrics

Well we saw the comet coming, and it filled the sky
And when the Hammer struck a billion people died.
Then the Earth rose up to smite the folk the comet had spared
As faults broke loose killing all but the lucky and prepared,

And that was just a prelude to all that lay in store
Forth rode the ancient horsemen: --- Famine, Plague and War.

Chorus:
Oh we've got to save the lightning,
For you and for me,
So we can build a future
That used to be.
Keep the power flowin',
So we can stay free.
We've got to save the lightning,
For our posterity


The dust kicked up for months completely hid the sky.
Without the sun a season's crops all withered and died.
And some folks ate each other just to stay alive,
And now we have to fight them so we can survive.

A crazy preacher leads them spewing death and hate,
And we have to stop the cannibals before it is too late.


Bridge:
They have us all outnumbered. They have us all outgunned.
But we've got a Wizard's power, and we don’t intend to run
We've weapons built in secret, to strike a mighty blow
Poison gas and Thermite, with which to meet the foe.

-Rpt Chorus-


I've learned all sorts of things that I thought I'd never know,
I've even fished for goldfish – above downtown Fresno,
I fought a deadly battle with a cannibal horde,
No, survival ain't been easy; but I shure haven't been board.

Now we won the final battle, though our wizard died,
But we saved the power plant and all the tools and men inside.


Fin chorus:
Oh we fought to save the lightning,
For you and for me,
We can rebuild that future
That used to be.
We kept the power flowin',
And we fought to stay free.
We fought to save the lightning,
And our children's legacy.

And the Children of the Lightning
Will be forever free.

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from Space & Freedom, released June 4, 2009
Words and Music: Mark Horning

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