Hong Kong Lightning

Somebody needs to get that
Ringing phone
Leave all the little girls
On the clock alone

Like a beat
Like a downbeat
Like a trumped up charge
Like a burglar alarm

Going off
Going off

Ring ring
Someone's gotta get it
Someone's gotta pick it up

Ring ring
Somebody got hit with it
Somebody got dumbstruck
Somebody's in charge

Boom boom
Tell me did you hear it
Say it wasn't freaky
Left to its devices

Twice I heard it
And the difference is?
And the difference is?

Here you can hear
The lightning

That's why they call it
Hong Kong Lightning

Cause something that you only
Used to see
Becomes something you can hear

Something that you only used to get a sense of
Now you can truly fear

Something that you parlay into day
Sticks around until the next night
And when you bite off more than you can chew
It comes back to you
In a streak of light

Ring ring
Someone better get that
Someone better pick that up
Right now

Boom boom
Somebody's in trouble
Somebody's alone
Someone's gonna wind up
Dead tonight

And when it hits
It hits you hard
Cracks the sky in half

And when it strikes
It strikes you twice
Then comes back
Just to show it can

It's like a man with a gun
Who won't tell you it's loaded
But he points and clicks
With his tongue on his teeth

And he meets you in storm
With the rain on his face
Placing himself between you and race
Against the top of the building
Where the rod sits atop

Can you stop him before
You wind up alone
Can you stop him before
He picks up the phone
Can you stop him before--

Boom boom

See you didn't see it
You just heard it coming
Drumming on a barrel
Past your long dead relatives
Living up ahead

Ring ring
Someone better get that
Someone better pick up
Before it stops

Straight to the top
And you won't see a thing
That's how you know

It's Hong Kong Lightning