The Night I Painted The Sky

Verse

i came from the north escaping convention

the modern invention thatwon'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 bombadier, 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 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 mortars they roar in anticipation

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 awhile

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

painted the sky