[Verse 1: Heavy-metal male lead, roaring] Three hundred feet of steel and I am clipped onto the top Wind is pulling at my harness and the clouds are going black First time it got me I was twenty, threw me off a ladder rung Woke up in the weeds with my boots blown off and copper on my tongue Second time a summer later, third time on a water tank Fourth time burned my watch into my wrist and left it blank Fifth time I was fishing and it found me through the line Doctors say it isn't possible, I say it's fine [Chorus: Heavy-metal male lead, full force] They say it never strikes the same place twice I got the scars to prove they're telling lies Every time the sky goes white, I climb They say it never strikes the same place twice [Verse 2: Heavy-metal male lead, faster and harder] Sixth job of the summer and the foreman says come down Got a squall line rolling in, it's gonna hit the town I said give me fifteen minutes, got a panel on the blink Climbing up the rungs with the air too hot to think Halfway through the bolts my chest goes tight and then goes still Left arm going numb and I'm hanging off the sill Heart just quits, the world goes gray, the wrench falls through the sky Three hundred feet of nothing and I'm clipped there, set to die [Chorus: Heavy-metal male lead, full force] They say it never strikes the same place twice I got the scars to prove they're telling lies Every time the sky goes white, I climb They say it never strikes the same place twice [Bridge: Heavy-metal male lead, screaming over the riff] Then the whole sky opens up and finds me one more time Every hair stands up, every rivet on the line White White White And something in my chest kicks like a mule [Interlude: Heavy-metal male lead, thunder roll across the whole kit] Beating Beating Beating [Verse 3: Heavy-metal male lead, triumphant] Woke up hanging from my harness with my heart back in the race Smoke coming off my collar and a grin across my face Climbed down hand by hand and the foreman's turning white Says you were dead, I saw you die, I said yeah, not tonight Doctors call it a defibrillation from the sky Six times it came looking and six times I didn't die Lit a cigarette, I finished up the panel on the next one Lightning keeps on choosing me because it isn't done [Chorus: Heavy-metal male lead, full force] They say it never strikes the same place twice I got the scars to prove they're telling lies Every time the sky goes white, I climb They say it never strikes the same place twice [Outro: Heavy-metal male lead] See you next summer [End]
