Independence Day

There's a battleship parked in the river Reenacting, open doors, open arms then open fire There are mushroom clouds and machine-gunned copters descending In the snapcracklepop fizzle of the fireworks As they blast into the night air breathed in By innumerable pa*sengers screaming "We are Number One " Independence Day Our Freedom is won To choose our own way When to go, what's to come But with each tie we break There is sacrifice How many lives will it take ? How many loves just must die ? There's a man I just met He hasn't kissed me yet He reminds me of someone else, only better But I'm made ou of wax, so easy to impress Am I melting too fast, dripping into your lips ? Because all my heroes have turned human this year Slinking 'round pool-tables, sinking into unflabled stupers Whispering into the night air or into some girl's hair " I am Number One " Independence Day Our Freedom is won To choose our own way When to go, what's to come But with each tie we break There is sacrifice How many lives will it take ? How many loves just must die ? There's a battleship parked in the Charles river Shooting off fireworks that light up the world, then fall in the water My love's next to me, head full of the next century And wandering whether there'll be a wedding tomorrow And the secret smoke signals in the aftermath of gunpowder Seem the most significant indication of what's to come Independence Day Our Freedom is won To choose our own way When to go, what's to come But with each tie we break There is sacrifice How many lives will it take ? How many loves just must die ?