"The Night I Painted The Sky" lyrics

"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 that 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
Un bombardier, a night time magician
I sparked 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
Proceeding the sigh of the uplifted eyes
It showers us all in sulfuric sensation
The colors shine and 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


Writer(s): Jay R Oliver, Roger Edwin Guth, Peter Hagen Mayer, Jimmy Buffett, Russ Kunkel
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