Musical Analysis #2 - The Lightning Strike (What If This Storm Ends?)
When you think about the group Snow Patrol, many think of their most popular song Chasing Cars. Today I am gonna talk about their song The Lightning Strike (What If This Storm Ends?) released on October 24th, 2008 . Snow Patrol is a band based in Glasgow but the members are originally from Northern Ireland and Scotland. They're defined as an alternative rock band that originally started out as an indie band. Within the first piano note ringing in your ears, you can tell immediately that this song is going to evoke some type of emotion within the listener. During the research into this song, I discovered that this song is not just a stand alone song. This song is actually part of a longer song composed of three songs totaling sixteen minutes and eighteen seconds. Lyrics- When I discovered what Snow Patrol wrote this song about it struck me as odd because I had interpreted it in a completely different way. According to an article posted by The Telegraph, lyricist Gary Li...