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