The Night I Painted the Sky

I came from the north, escaping convention Modern invention that won't let me be To the shores of St. Martin with my fiction addiction To restart the fire, a dreamer's remedy 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 goodbye The rockets in the air and the people everywhere Put away their differences for a while Oh, I am still a child when it comes to something wild Oh, that was the night I painted the sky 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 The rockets in the air and the people everywhere Put away their differences for a while Yes, I am still a child when it comes to something wild Oh, that was the night I painted the sky 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 The rockets in the air and the people everywhere Won't you put away your 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 Painted the sky