Well Papa go to bed now it´s getting late Nothing we can say is gonna change anything now I´ll be leaving in the morning from St. Mary´s Gate We wouldn´t change this thing even if we could somehow
Cause the darkness of this house has got the best of us There´s a darkness in this town that´s got us too But they can´t touch me now And you can´t touch me now They ain´t gonna do to me What I watched them do to you
So say goodbye it´s Independence Day It´s Independence Day All down the line Just say goodbye it´s Independence Day It´s Independence Day this time
Now I don´t know what it always was with us We chose the words, and yeah, we drew the lines There was just no way this house could hold the two of us
I guess that we were just too much of the same kind
Well say goodbye it´s Independence Day It´s Independence Day all boys must run away So say goodbye it´s Independence Day All men must make their way come Independence Day
Now the rooms are all empty down at Frankie´s joint And the highway she´s deserted clear down to Breaker´s Point There´s a lot of people leaving town now Leaving their friends, their homes At night they walk that dark and dusty highway all alone Well Papa go to bed now, it´s getting late Nothing we can say can change anything now
Because there´s just different people coming down here now and they see things in different ways And soon everything we´ve known will just be swept away
So say goodbye it´s Independence Day Papa now I know the things you wanted that you could not say But won´t you just say goodbye it´s Independence Day I swear I never meant to take those things away