boy, am i ever gonna get over fourth of july? i can examine every inch of its composition and turn over every single syllable of its lyrics and i will still come up with something to talk about. on my previous (and first!) microreview, i quoted a line of fourth of july, which i now feel like such an underrepresentation of the song. i mean, i’m sorry every song is about you gets trumped by in between being young and being right, you were my Versailles at night.
every single time.
there’s an element of truth in every word contained, even though patrick was quick to assure that he would be as honest as you’d let me. this is unrequited love song at its finest, treading the fine line of anger (and all my thoughts of you, they could heat or cool the room), regret (i’m sorry, i didn’t mean any of it, i just got too lonely), anguish (my 9 to 5 is cutting open old scars), blunt honesty (the torture of small talks with someone you used to love) and hope (may the bridges i have burned light my way back home). the length pete went (heh) in order to illustrate this supposedly great unrequited love of his life was incredible. it takes a lot of effort in order to write a song that not only means a lot to you, but at the same time be relatable to everyone else. and if there’s anything this song accomplished is exactly that. a dear friend of mine promoted the song to me by saying, “pick a line and it will hurt anyway.”
and boy it did.
truth be told, i feel like this is going to be that anthemic summer song, transporting everyone to the memory of the supposedly great love of their life. this is the song that will definitely replace katy perry’s the one that got away as 8tracks kids’ go-to song to be included in their summer heartbreak playlist (and believe me, there are going to be hundreds of them). i’d like to imagine that in two months time, i will be pressing some random playlist’s play button and be assaulted with fourth of july’s infectious opening.
you and i were, you and i were, you and i were fire fire fire…
incoherent manifestation of thoughts and feelings 