[00:22.85]We heard the fireworks
[00:25.66]Rushed out to watch the sky,
[00:28.39]Happy go lucky, fourth of July
[00:31.17]How can you live in the Northeast?
[00:36.62]How can you live in the South?
[00:39.40]How can you build on the banks of a river
[00:41.92]When the flood water pours from the mouth?
[00:44.94]How can you be a Christian?
[00:47.40]How can you be a Jew?
[00:50.47]How can you be a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Hindu?
[00:54.75]How can you?
[00:56.92]Weak as the winter sun, we enter life on earth.
[01:01.51]Names and religion comes just after date of birth.
[01:07.04]Then everybody gets a tongue to speak,
[01:09.49]And everyone hears an inner voice,
[01:12.90]A day at the end of the week to wonder and rejoice.
[01:20.20]If the answer is infinite light
[01:23.76]Why do we sleep in the dark?
[01:29.53]How can you live in the Northeast?
[01:32.09]How can you live in the South?
[01:34.88]How can you build on the banks of a river?
[01:37.41]When the flood water pours from the mouth?
[01:40.49]How can you tattoo your body?
[01:43.17]Why do you cover your head?
[01:46.01]How can you eat from a rice bowl
[01:48.75]The holy man only breaks bread?
[02:02.92]We watched the fireworks 'till they were fireflies.
[02:08.28]Followed a path of stars over the endless skies.
[02:25.35]How can you live in the Northeast?
[02:27.35]How can you live in the South?
[02:30.45]How can you build on the banks of a river
[02:33.26]When the flood water pours from the mouth, from the mouth?
[03:04.17]I've been given all I wanted,
[03:09.21]Only three generations off the boat.
[03:14.44]I've harvested and I've planted.
[03:19.75]I'm wearing my father's old coat