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Independence Day For A Petty Thief Lyrics
The summer that I turned 16 I had my independence day,
Snuck down to the rich neighborhood near the fireworks display,
Green lawns washed in black all reflecting exploding light,
We crept up to a house big and white with back door open wide.
There’s no honor among suburban paupers.
Independence day for a petty thief,
Independence day for a scoundrel.
Young and old they stared like zombies at the red and blue and grey,
Every soul was in the bleachers about four blocks away,
From inside it sounded like thunder claps, or a town being laid to waist,
My heart was beating a boom, boom, boom, boom as we filled up our pillow case.
Free, dumb.
Independence Day for a petty thief,
Independence Day for a scoundrel.
Independence Day for a petty thief,
Independence Day for a scoundrel.
The summer that I turned 16 I had my Independence Day.
Snuck down to the rich neighborhood near the fireworks display,
Green lawns washed in black all reflecting exploding light,
We crept up to a house big and white with back door open wide.
Independence day for a scoundrel.
Every soul was in the bleachers about four blocks away,
From inside it sounded like thunder claps, or a town being laid to waist,
My heart was beating a boom, boom, boom, boom as we filled up our pillow case.
Independence Day for a scoundrel.
Independence Day for a scoundrel.
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It might be "Free, dumb", but when I first heard it, I thought it was "Freedom". Just a thought.
That is what I thought too, though with the download that they gave away, they included the lyrics and that's what it said.
Oh, ok. I just didn't notice the lyrics that were included.
This is a long shot, but I think this song is about the part of us that wants to trivialize patriotism as just fireworks and a pretty flag - so much so that we are able to ignore a thief burgling our home. This is reinforced by "...stared like zombies at the red, blue and grey" and "free, dumb."