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Lightning

from Whalebone by Marc Douglas Berardo

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I met Lightning in Felton, Ca in 1994.

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1966 the world was just waking up and coming to
In San Francisco the beatles played candlestick and everything was feeling brand new
The Beat Poets had all but left North Beach
And the scene had moved to the park
In the middle of all that my man lightning lit up the dark

He was born Charlie McCristy in an east coast suburban town
He was a country club kid with a silver spoon playing on fresh cut ground
All the teachers called him brilliant
All the girls they loved his face
But he didn’t feel the love inside so first chance he got he lit up out of that place

Chorus
Like Lightning/ Flashing off and on then he was gone

He took a scholarship to san Franciso State
And had all the promise in the world
But soon he discover Carousel ballroom shows, pills and free love girls
It didn’t take long to change him and he stopped going to class
A few hits of Owsley will do that to you
A few hits of Owsley will put you on your ass

Yeah his hippie friends called him lightning
that suited him just fine
His mind was always moving fast and working moving overtime
He had ideas for space phone and personal arithmetic machines
But the drugs kept the genius bottled up and they remained just dreams

Chorus
He could not bottle Lightning/ Flashing off and on then he was gone

BR They were throwing around the I-Ching
They were dancing round the fire
it would be hard to find a place on earth that was getting any higher
LSD, Mescalito Lightning passed that acid test
But there were times when he couldn’t feel the love inside and it left him disillusioned and depressed

The sixties turned into the 70s and Lightning drifted further west
To a beach shack in Lahina but by then he was just a mess
The dope was replaced by hard liquor and an anger inside
The free love dream was over to him the free love dream was a lie

He drowned one night in Kauia drunk on stolen cheapo champagne
His Hawaiian friends at his funeral didn’t even know his real name
Just a thumb nail sketch of Lightning he came and then he went
one second you are here and then you disappear your soul lost in the firmament

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from Whalebone, released September 17, 2013
MDB-Guitar, Vocal, Percussion
John Juxo-Keyboard
Jordan Jancz-Bass

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Marc Douglas Berardo Westerly, Rhode Island

Marc Douglas Berardo combines songs that mine lessons gleaned from real life situations presence that uses humor and storytelling to lead an audience into an almost spiritual experience. It’s brings to mind James Taylor, Jimmy Buffett, Guy Clark or Steely Dan with a hint of Mark Twain or Hunter S.Thompson. It’s a night of laughter and emotion that gives the audience a renewed sense of possibility. ... more

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