Every midnight I go see you
At your home away from home
Some nights we talk of leaving
If this town still won't explode
Let us walk along the midway
The carnival's bewitched tonight
We are different kinds of people
And to that we've got a right

Why should we be so eager to keep the fireworks at bay
When this could be Independence Day?

There are moments I have swallowed
There are truths I've not yet told
And feelings I have altered
So my heart could not be sold
But I love the way your hands move
When you're processing your words
And the music in your eyes is
The purest sound I've ever heard

Why should we be so eager to keep the fireworks at bay
When this could be Independence Day?

We are sailing through the sky
Tied to twenty pink balloons
We are shadows on the highway
The first songs to walk the moon
We've been shipwrecked on the mooring
But it was not bad company
We found proof inside of deserts
That there once was here a sea

Why should we be so eager to keep the fireworks at bay
When this could be Independence Day?

If I'm falling please don't catch me
That is one thing I can't trust
That you'd leave me to the hard rain
Make me prove that I can rust
But I know you know I'm fooling
And you've helped me know it too
And we're learning there's a difference
'Tween what is and what is true

Why should we be so eager to keep the fireworks at bay
When this could be Independence Day?

These are dirt cheap pounds of progress
But it's all the dirt we've got
A story still unwritten
A film that's not yet shot
May you never dream of nothing
But that on which you can rely
And I'll stay up till the morning
Just to see you slept the night

Why should we be so eager to keep the fireworks at bay
When this could be Independence Day?