It was the fourth of July you and I were fire, fire, fireworks You and I were I said I’d never miss you, but I guess you’ll never know Where the bridges I have burned never really led home On the fourth of July That went off too soon And I miss you in

I don't know why you bother Nothing's ever good enough for you I was there And it wasn't like that You came here Just to start a fight You had to piss on our parade You had to shred our big day You had to ruin it for all concerned

Because of you I'm me All of sudden I'm something I wasn't Because of you I see Everything I can be, lonely as history I know that I'm better when we're together I'm independent to a fault I know this well But I finally found love Without losing myself

And from the first time that I saw you Had I known you better then I would've said those three old words You couldn't wait to get to sleep and dream About the one you wish was there beside you Were you ever so in love In the past few days I've grown To

1985, I arrived 33 years, damn, I'm grateful I survived We wasn't s'posed to get past 25 Jokes on you motherfucker, we alive All these niggas popping now is young Everybody say the music that they make is dumb I remember I was 18 Money, pussy, parties, I

Six foot six stood on the ground, weighted 235 pounds But I saw that giant of a man brought down to his knees by love He was the kind of man who would gamble on love Look you in the eye and never back up But I saw him crying like a little whipped pup

But all he ever wanted was her touch But all he ever knew was all that much Of gold like the blue door You lost your way Blew in from the storm He'd been riding for days Came home to find his lover In another man's gaze Now, some kill for whiskey

Did you ever watch the one you love Slowly drifting away from you? And you know deep in your heart There is nothing that you can do To make her stay To turn the tide To ease the pain That you feel deep inside When her eyes say it's over and done

Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit Well, that was just a lie You ain't nothin' but a hound dog Cryin' all the time And you ain't no friend of mine Well they said you was high-classed Yeah they said you was high-classed You know they said you was

Born in a mourning hall The other side That Peter Pan will never reach In fact it was close to a real fallout Everything's under control The speaker said with a serious smile Behind his mask He knew the truth I'll bring a new age of better ways