Independence Day - Mia Doi Todd

There’s a battleship parked in the river

Reenacting open doors, open arms, then open fire

There are mushroom clouds and machine-gunned copters descending

In the snap crackle pop fizzle of the fireworks

As they blast into the night air breathed in by innumerable passengers

Screaming «We Are Number One.»

Independence Day, our freedom is won

To choose our own way, when to go, what’s to come

But with each tie we break, there is sacrifice

How many lives will it take?

How many loves just must die

There’s a man I just met, he hasn’t kissed me yet

He reminds me of someone else, only better

But I’m made out Of wax, so easy to impress

Am I melting too fast, dripping into your lips

Because all my heroes have turned human this year

Slinking 'round pool tables, sinking into unfabled stupors

Whispering in the night air or into some girl’s hair

«I Am Number One.»

There’s a battleship parked in the Charles River

Shooting off fireworks that light up the world

Then fall in the water

My love’s next to me, head full of the next century

And wondering whether there’ll be a wedding tomorrow

And the secret smoke signals

In the aftermath of gunpowder

Seem the most significant indication of what’s to come