4th Of July Lyrics - Whatever - Aimee Mann

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 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 

I ought to have gotten it 

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, and a verse, and refrain