Aimee Mann - 4th Of July

Today’s the fourth 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 harbouring 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 here I am 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



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 here I am and the world’s gotten colder

And she’s got the river down which I sold her.’