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Independence Day

from Every Mile by Say ZuZu

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Originally, this song was a long meditation on visiting with my Dad at the Rockland County (New York) psychiatric facility where he lived in a halfway house. My father was not a soldier, but he had been through his own kind of war. The parade image was inspired by John Irving’s novel, A Prayer For Owen Meany, which is set in Exeter, New Hampshire, next door to my hometown of Newmarket. Just before he died, my Dad told me he knew this song was about him.

lyrics

Wake up all you dreamers
Open all your windows
Hang up all your streamers on the 4th of July.

Come out all you cowards
Step outside and shower your praise
On the heroes as they march by in the parade.

Do you remember how we’d sit, way back in 1976,
When the future seemed so bright in the bicentennial?
Though I was only four years old
I can remember how you’d hold me
On your shoulders to watch the men walk by
As Independence Day parades on by again.

Stand up all you old men
Shake the dust out of your limbs
And the memories of better men dying at your side.

Still you serve and protect
And hide the dark truths in your chest
So we all still believe it was neat and clean

Do you remember how we’d sit, way back in 1976,
When the future seemed so bright in the bicentennial?
Though I was only four years old
I can remember how you’d hold me
On your shoulders to watch the men walk by
As Independence Day parades on by again.

There’s a beauty in the silence
That comes just before the storm blows up
And showers all the people along the road.

Those who see it coming
Into their houses they run
As the parade splits and old men duck their heads.

Do you remember how we’d sit, way back in 1976,
When the future seemed so bright in the bicentennial?
Though I was only four years old
I can remember how you’d hold me
On your shoulder to watch the men walk by
As Independence Day parades on by again.

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from Every Mile, released July 21, 2023

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