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