The Night I Painted The Sky

E C#m F#7 Bsus E I A came from the north escaping conE)vention, The B modern invention that won't let me E be To the A shores of St. Maarten with my fiction addiG#m)ction, To F# restart the fire a dreamer's B remedy IndeA)pendence day and all I reE)member, Was a B midnight rainbow that fell from the E sky As I A stand on the beach I slowly surG#m)render, To the F# child in me who can't say goodB)bye The E rockets in the G#m air, And the A people everyE)where C#m Put away their F# differences for aB)while Oh E I am still a G#m child When it A comes to something F# wild E That was the B night I A painted the E sky I A dug in the sand like a boy, on a E mission. And B there in my hands a pyro's deE)light A A bombadier, a nighttime magiE)cian, I F# spark the sky as the rockets fly from B view The E rockets in the G#m air, And the A people everyE)where C#m Put away their F# differences for aB)while Oh E I am still a G#m child When it A comes to something F# wild E That was the B night I A painted the E sky Oh the A mortars they roar in anticiE)pation, PreA)ceding the sigh of the uplifted E eyes It A showers us all in sulfuric sensE)ation, The F# colors shine in a fiery rhyme toB)night The E rockets in the G#m air, And the A people everyE)where C#m Put away their F# differences for aB)while Oh E I am still a G#m child When it A comes to something F# wild E That was the C#m night Oh, E that was the F# night E That was the B night, I A painted the E sky Fade out