A Song a Day

Aimee Mann - 4th of July

I know this song is a bit early considering it's title, but before I forget...

I first took note of the singer-songwriter Aimee Mann's music at the world premiere of the movie Magnolia at the Berlin Film Festival. I instantly fell in love with her voice and the songs and have been collecting her albums ever since.

I find this specific song to be not just beautiful, but in all aspects you see it something like THE perfect song in itself. Everything in this song fits as if it had to be this way and no different in any aspect.



Todays the fourth of july
Another june has gone by
And when they light up our town I just think
What a waste of gunpowder and sky
Im certain that I am alone
In harbouring thoughts of our home
Its one of my faults that I cant quell my past
I ought to have gotten it gone

Oh, baby, I wonder -
If when you are older -
Someday-
Youll wake up
And say, my god, I should have told her -
What would it take?
But now here I am and the worlds gotten colder
And shes got the river down which I sold her.

So thats todays memory lane
With all the pathos and pain
Another chapter in a book where the chapters are endless
And theyre always the same
A verse, then a verse, and refrain

Oh, baby, I wonder -
If when you are older -
Someday-
Youll wake up
And say, my god, I should have told her -
What would it take?
But now here I am and the worlds gotten colder
And shes got the river down which I sold her.