If you liked Sympathy for the Route Setter, you’ll love this new song, too. As the summer temperatures make it harder and harder to send outside, we really start to miss our old adventures more and more. Sometimes, you find a route that you just wish could go on forever.
Here is my adaptation of “The Lightning Strike (What If This Storm Ends?)” by Snow Patrol (original lyrics on AZLyrics):
The Lightning Send (What If This Route Ends?)
What if this route ends?
And I don’t climb you
As you are now
Ever again
The perfect line
Of sharp crimps and mantles
Sets you up against
The climber’s last chance
Just for a minute
The all dreaded drive-by
Chalked you up like a map
That I will follow
Now pump has found us
Like I have found you
I don’t want to fall
Just protect me
What if this route ends?
And leaves us nothing
Except a flapper
A distant pain
I want my grip slipping
I want insecure
Clip draw after draw
Until my foot blows
I want to climb you
As you are now
Every single day
That I am living
Forged in rock
All hardened sand
Be the send in me
That climbs relentless
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