Lyrics The Night I Painted the Sky - 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