Jimmy Buffett - The Night I Painted the Sky lyrics

I came from the north escaping convention

The modern invention that won'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 bombardier, 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 all 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 martars they roar in anticpation

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 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 (x2