The Night I Painted The Sky Lyrics - Jimmy Buffett

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 

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