\nWell Papa go to bed now it’s getting late
\n Nothing we can say is gonna change anything now
\n I’ll be leaving in the morning from St. Mary’s Gate
\n We wouldn’t change this thing even if we could somehow
\n Cause the darkness of this house has got the best of us
\n There’s a darkness in this town that’s got us too
\n But they can’t touch me now
\n And you can’t touch me now
\n They ain’t gonna do to me
\n What I watched them do to you<\/p>\n
So say goodbye it’s Independence Day
\n It’s Independence Day
\n All down the line
\n Just say goodbye it’s Independence Day
\n It’s Independence Day this time<\/p>\n
Now I don’t know what it always was with us
\n We chose the words, and yeah, we drew the lines
\n There was just no way this house could hold the two of us
\n I guess that we were just too much of the same kind<\/p>\n
Well say goodbye it’s Independence Day
\n It’s Independence Day all boys must run away
\n So say goodbye it’s Independence Day
\n All men must make their way come Independence Day<\/p>\n
Now the rooms are all empty down at Frankie’s joint
\n And the highway she’s deserted down to Breaker’s Point
\n There’s a lot of people leaving town now
\n Leaving their friends, their homes
\n At night they walk that dark and dusty highway all alone<\/p>\n
Well Papa go to bed now it’s getting late
\n Nothing we can say can change anything now
\n Because there’s just different people coming down here now
\n and they see things in different ways
\n And soon everything we’ve known will just be swept away<\/p>\n
So say goodbye it’s Independence Day
\n Papa now I know the things you wanted that you could not say
\n But won’t you just say goodbye it’s Independence Day<\/p>\n
\u00a9 Springsteen<\/p>\n