E C#m F#7 Bsus E

[Verse]
  A                                E
I came from the north escaping con vention,
    B                                  E
The modern invention that won't let me be
       A                                          G#m
To the shores of St. Maarten with my fiction addi ction,
   F#                           B
To restart the fire a dreamer's remedy

     A                         E
Inde pendence day and all I re member,
      B                                   E
Was a midnight rainbow that fell from the sky
     A                               G#m
As I stand on the beach I slowly sur render,
       F#                             B
To the child in me who can't say good bye

    E              G#m
The rockets in the air,
        A            E
And the people every where
C#m            F#                B
Put away their differences for a while
   E            G#m
Oh I am still a child
        A                  F#
When it comes to something wild
E            B       A           E
That was the night I painted the sky

  A                                E
I dug in the sand like a boy, on a mission.
    B                             E
And there in my hands a pyro's de light
  A                           E
A bombadier, a nighttime magi cian,
  F#                                    B
I spark the sky as the rockets fly from view

    E              G#m
The rockets in the air,
        A            E
And the people every where
C#m            F#                B
Put away their differences for a while
   E            G#m
Oh I am still a child
        A                  F#
When it comes to something wild
E            B       A           E
That was the night I painted the sky

[Instrumental]
       A                           E
Oh the mortars they roar in antici pation,
    A                               E
Pre ceding the sigh of the uplifted eyes
   A                               E
It showers us all in sulfuric sens ation,
    F#                               B
The colors shine in a fiery rhyme to night

[Verse]
    E              G#m
The rockets in the air,
        A            E
And the people every where
C#m            F#                B
Put away their differences for a while
   E            G#m
Oh I am still a child
        A                  F#
When it comes to something wild
E            C#m
That was the night
    E            F#
Oh, that was the night
E            B        A           E
That was the night, I painted the sky