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