Stars Out of My Eyes

Every Fourth of July You ride the red, blue and white Blinking lights of a flight Streaming broad stripes Over the horizon line And by the diamonds of Orion's belt And through the threads of the archers bow You're rocketing across the cosmos Watching TV in a cheap seat Leaving me to get back home Oh how will I ever get these stars Out of my eyes for you? How will I ever get these stars Out of my eyes for you? I keep you as a dream to pass the time And forget And down here on the ground I am missing you, lonesome, in a crowd Celebrating the wars And the fats and the creams of our freedom Sparks are dripping down the sky Like dazzling dahlia petals I'll try to decorate my darkness With victory metals But when the dust all settles, Something in me just don't sit right Oh how will I ever get these stars Out of my eyes for you? I keep you as a dream to fill my mind And forget Oh America the beaut You're a brute! Orchestrating parades for the liars (Lyres) and the loots (Lutes) But I want more in my hand than candy I want more in my head than a fantasy Oh how will I ever get these stars Out of my eyes for you? I didn't get to hold you quite as tight as I like Making heartbeat music through the night And waking up with laughter Fanfares for the morning after The sweetest kind of love keeps bringing life back to life But all I see are the blood red flags in the sky For the reason we have gathered And I'm tired of feeling torn up and tattered They say that this country is for the strong and the brave But I'm crying like a child over a spilled Milky Way Leading you away Oh how will I ever get these stars Out of my eyes for you? How will I ever get these stars Out of my eyes for you? I keep you as a dream to pass the time and Forget