Lightning Bolt

    D                          A               G
The best years of his life, is what he gave to you.
  D                         A            G
Never late a day, he's been faithful and true.
D                              A                G
Putting out the tombstones and digging down the graves.
    D                           A                 G                 Em
For over thirty years now and I can't believe you have the nerve to say
            G                     Em
that you're gonna have to cut his pay.
                   G                         D
'Cause one of your priests did such an awful thing.

[Chorus]
D                                       A                    G
Lightning bolt, oh lightning bolt, why don't you strike them down?
    D                                  A                 G
For what they did they deserve to be a black spot in the ground.
    D                  A               G
And if there is a god, up there in the clouds,
  D                              A        G          Em
I can't imagine a better time to show his wrath than now.
               G                                 Em
Somehow, these monsters all seem higher than the law.
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                   G             D
They won't see any punishment at all.

[Verse 2]
   D                             A           G
He didn't give a damn about your god or your church.
   D                              A               G
He was just an honest man looking for some honest work.
    D                        A            G
And in his little finger, he has more purity,
       D                         A          G         Em
Than a whole church-load full of your child-molesting priests,
                G                             Em
It seems you're making him pay for the guilty sins.
                             G         D
Thirty years, and that's the thanks he gets.

[Verse 3]
     D                           A            G
It's hard to imagine there could be a greater sin,
     D                     A        G
Than using your trust for abusing a kid.
   D                           A                G
As hard as it may seem, well I think that there is
    D                        A                G        Em
And you're committing it, by protecting these old evil men.
             G                     Em
And if there really is a judgement day,
              G            D
You'll have a whole lot to explain.

[Chorus]
D                                       A                    G
Lightning bolt, oh lightning bolt, why don't you strike them down?
    D                                  A                 G
For what they did they deserve to be a black spot in the ground.
    D                  A               G
And if there is a god, up there in the clouds,
  D                              A        G          Em
I can't imagine a better time to show his wrath than now.
               G                                 Em
Somehow, these monsters all seem higher than the law.
                   G             D
They won't see any punishment at all.