Aimee Mann - 4th of July

6/27/2009 09:45:00 PM In ,

Today's the 4th of July
Another June has gone by
And when they light up our town I just think:
What a waste of gunpowder and sky

I'm certain that I am alone
In harboring thoughts of our home
It's one of my faults
That I can't quell my past
I ought to have gotten it gone

Oh, baby, I wonder
If when you are older someday
You'll wake up and say
My God, I should have told her!
What would it take?
But now I am here, and
The world's gotten colder
And she's got the river
Down which I sold her...

So that's today's memory lane
With all the pathos and pain
Another chapter in a book
Where the chapters are endless
And they're always the same
A verse, then a verse
And refrain
- 4th of July