Capo 2

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  She was on fire and wild and American 
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  She burns it out probably just because she can 
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And if I had a dollar for every thing I should've said 
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I'd prolly still be busted, I would throw it all away again 

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The lightening bugs light up all across the southern sky 
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Some guys get it all and they don't even need to try 
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I watched you roll away but you didn't even say goodbye 
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And now I hate the night, I'm guessin' that's the reason why 

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And this, this is my life  On the 4th of July 
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It isn't much, but at least it's mine 

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  Got in my van, ended up in Boston 
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Thought about my friends and how easily I lost them 
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I'd do it all again, I'll leave everyone exhausted 
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Some folks get a break, me I never got one 

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  I thought of you at night when I would drink too much 
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If you thought about me too, you'd never tried to get in touch 
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   Went back to school and I ran into some guys I knew 
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We started up this band but we couldn't seem to get it through 
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  We got some gigs, evetually we lost that too 
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Did you ever think that if you're not happy it's because of you 

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And this, this is my life,  On the 4th of July 
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It isn't much, but at least it's mine 

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   I got a job selling ads for magazines 
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At night when I would play, I'd think about her constantly 
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Everything I loved it somehow got away from me 
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And suicide,       I talked about it openly 
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   I finally quit, or maybe I got fired, I don't know 
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It doesn't matter just as long as it happened though 
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Added up the fears and the doubts I've been living with 
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Songs of lightening bugs, school, work, and all that shit 

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And this, this is my life  On the 4th of July 
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It isn't much, but at least it's mine 

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   I lost a girl sometime and a couple friends 
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   Small talk at parties I never could stomach it 
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I'm old enough to say that I remember when 
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But I dont have the time for your nastalgia or your crisitisms 
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   You live and learn, me, well I learned to let go 
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  Parents and bosses and people who don't want you to grow 
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I think that anything you want to you can do 
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And no one is going to tell me just who the hell I should sing to 

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And this, this is my life  On the 4th of July 
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It isn't much, but at least it's mine (x2)
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