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This is an early home recording and it's not fully produced.   It's here because it's
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Heat Lightning

Mother please, don't burn me, I got both hands tied behind my back
I'm defenseless, but I'm learning from the pain of being stretched across the rack
Mother please, keep me warm, and protect me from the storm
Heat lightning

Baby please, don't hurt me
You got me right in the palm of your hand
Don't squeeze me, have mercy, I'm alone if you won't understand
Baby please, keep me warm, and protect me from the storm
Heat lightning

People please, come help me
Can't you see there's a rip-off going down?
I can't fight it without you, and I'm nothing but a pawn anyhow
Oh please, keep me warm, and protect me from the storm
Heat lightning

Peter Cross is the songwriter and the singer.

Commentary:

I don't think much of this song musically, but once again, it appears that I was prescient about what both these women would eventually do to me (my mother and Mona). My mother had me busted by N.Y.C. narcs when I was living at Prince St. in Little Italy. It took me many years to forgive her for putting me in jail where she thought I would actually get help for my "marijuana addiction". But I eventually realized that she was just being ignorant out of a mother's love because all the people she knew were telling her that pot is addictive, and it definitely is not. Mona kidnapped my precious boys and stole absolutely everything I had except for my body. THAT was not done out of ignorance or any conceivable form of love. I still like the line that says, "keep me warm and protect me from the storm" because it pretty much says it all, and when the storm really did come, it lasted for a full 10 years. It's the very same storm I referred to in the second line of my song Someday, and thank God that someday has finally arrived and the storm is now over.


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