Verse I came from the north escaping convention The modern invention that won't let me be To the shores of St. Maarten with my fiction addiction To restart the fire a dreamer's remedy
Verse Independence day and all I remember Was a midnight rainbow that fell from the sky As I stand on the beach I slowly surrender To the child in me who can't say good-bye
Chorus The rockets in the air And the people everywhere Put away their differences for awhile Oh I am still a child when it comes to something wild That was the night I painted the sky
Verse I dug in the sand like a boy on a mission And there in my hands a pyro's delight A bombardier, a nighttime magician I spark the sky as the rockets fly from view
Chorus The rockets in the air And the people everywhere Put away all their differences for awhile I am still a child when it comes to something wild That was the night I painted the sky
Verse Oh the martars they roar in anticpation Preceding the sigh of the uplifted eyes It showers us all in sulfuric sensation The colors shine in a fiery rhyme tonight
Chorus The rockets in the air And the people everywhere Put away their differences for a while I am but a child when it comes to something wild Oh that was the night That was the night Oh that was the night I painted the sky Painted the sky (x2)
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