| 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 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 |