Those fireworks that explode in the sky
on the forth of July...
to me are a representation
of the explosion within my heart
that occurred on that dreadful day that my son died.
These fireworks within my heart
do not end when the day comes to a close,
they continue to explode....
and will,
until the day that I see
the illumination of that sweet,
beautiful face of my son
in those eternal fireworks in the sky....
that I continually long for.

� 2004 - Christine Ross

I light up like a night on the Fourth of July.
I shine like the sun in the summer sky.
I glow like a field in the moon's full light.
These are the things that I do when you smile at me.

I hear the song birds melody.
I hear the softest rain on the streets.
I hear the wind pushing through the trees.
These are the things I hear when you speak to me.

~ Don Consentini

Saturday in the park
You'd think it was the fourth of July
Saturday in the park
You'd think it was the fourth of July
People talking, really smiling
A man playing guitar
Singing for us all
Will you help him change the world
Can you dig it (yes, I can)
And Ive been waiting such a long time
For today

Funny days in the park
Every day's the fourth of July
Funny days in the park
Every day's the fourth of July
People reaching, people touching
A real celebration
Waiting for us all
If we want it, really want it
Can you dig it (yes, I can)
And Ive been waiting such a long time
For the day

~ Chicago

Oh the smell of the smoke as we lay on the land
and the feeling of finding my heart in my hand
with the tiny tin voice of the radio band
singing love must stand
love forever and ever must stand

All on the Fourth of July
On the Fourth of July

~ James Taylor

So say goodbye it's Independence Day
It's Independence Day
All down the line
Just say goodbye it's Independence Day
It's Independence Day this time

~ Bruce Springsteen

Let freedom ring
Let the white dove sing
Let the whole world know that today
Is the day of a reckoning
Let the weak be strong
Let the right be wrong
Roll the stone away
Let the guilty pay
It's Independence Day

~ Martina McBride

Trembling
Starry eyed
As you put your hand in mine...

It was twilight
On the fourth of July
Sparkling colors were
Strewn across the sky
And we sat close enough
That we barely touched
While roman candles
Went soaring above us

~ Mariah Carey

I lay awake awhile, watching the ascent of the sparks through the firs, and sometimes their descent in half-extinguished cinders on my blanket. They were as interesting as fireworks, going up in endless, successive crowds, each after an explosion, in an eager, serpentine course, some to five or six rods above the tree-tops before they went out.
~Henry David Thoreau

I will miss you most of all when the sparks light up a July sky.
~ clem

American child, there's a burning inside you
That calls you away through the cold
To come back again to all that you've been
Can't you see that it's time to come home?
~ John Denver

The only true freedom is found waiting at the end of that road to Heaven.
~ clem

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.
~Thomas Campbell