The Night I Painted The Sky Lyrics

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
If un bombadier, a night time magician
I sparked the sky, as the rockets fly from view

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

Jimmy Buffett - Barometer Soup

Aug 1995

1. Barometer Soup
2. Barefoot Children
3. Bank Of Bad Habits
4. Remittance Man
5. Diamond As Big As The Ritz
6. Blue Heaven Rendezvous
7. Jimmy Dreams
8. Lage Nom Ai
9. Don't Chu-Know
10. Ballad Of Skip Wiley
11. The Night I Painted The Sky
12. Mexico