Backwards Fireworks

Things are different than they appear

When they're seen through the rear view mirror

When the city was gone from sight

It turned to light

And the sky was alive in the windows

Fireworks were exploding around us

Shot from country towns to celebrate

That they are free

And we are free

In that moment all I could see

Were those burning highway effigies

And down from the lit up sky

They felt like mine

From a past life