4th Of July

Capo 2

C G Am F

She was on fire and wild and American

C G Am F

She burns it out probably just because she can

C G Am F

And if I had a dollar for every thing I should've said

C G Am F

I'd prolly still be busted, I would throw it all away again

C G Am F

The lightening bugs light up all across the southern sky

C G Am F

Some guys get it all and they don't even need to try

C G Am F

I watched you roll away but you didn't even say goodbye

C G Am F

And now I hate the night, I'm guessin' that's the reason why

C G Am

And this, this is my life On the 4th of July

F G

It isn't much, but at least it's mine

[C G Am F]

C G Am F

Got in my van, ended up in Boston

C G Am F

Thought about my friends and how easily I lost them

C G Am F

I'd do it all again, I'll leave everyone exhausted

C G Am F

Some folks get a break, me I never got one

C G Am F

I thought of you at night when I would drink too much

C G Am F

If you thought about me too, you'd never tried to get in touch

C G Am F

Went back to school and I ran into some guys I knew

C G Am F

We started up this band but we couldn't seem to get it through

C G Am F

We got some gigs, evetually we lost that too

G

Did you ever think that if you're not happy it's because of you

C G Am

And this, this is my life On the 4th of July

F G

It isn't much, but at least it's mine

[C G Am F]

C G Am F

I got a job selling ads for magazines

C G Am F

At night when I would play, I'd think about her constantly

C G Am F

Everything I loved it somehow got away from me

C G Am F

And suicide, I talked about it openly

C G Am F

I finally quit, or maybe I got fired, I don't know

C G Am F

It doesn't matter just as long as it happened though

C G Am F

Added up the fears and the doubts I've been living with

G

Songs of lightening bugs, school, work, and all that shit

C G Am

And this, this is my life On the 4th of July

F G

It isn't much, but at least it's mine

[C G Am F]

C G Am F

I lost a girl sometime and a couple friends

C G Am F

Small talk at parties I never could stomach it

C G Am F

I'm old enough to say that I remember when

C G Am F

But I dont have the time for your nastalgia or your crisitisms

C G Am F

You live and learn, me, well I learned to let go

C G Am F

Parents and bosses and people who don't want you to grow

C G Am F

I think that anything you want to you can do

G

And no one is going to tell me just who the hell I should sing to

C G Am

And this, this is my life On the 4th of July

F G

It isn't much, but at least it's mine (x2)