Independence day
Bruce Springsteen
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1. Well, Papa, go to bed now, it's getting late. Nothing we can say is gonna change anything now.
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I'll be leaving in the morning from S:t Mary's gate. We wouldn't change this thing even if we could somehow.
2. '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 with me what I watched'em do to you.
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Refr. So say goodbye, it's Independence Day. It's Independence Day all down the line.
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Just say goodbye it's Independence Day. It’s Independence Day this time.
3. Now I don't know what it always was with us. We chose the words and, yeah, we drew the lines.
There's just no way this house could hold the two of us. I guess that we were just too much of the same kind.
Refr. 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.
4. 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 leavin' town now, leaving their friends, their homes. At night they walk that dark and dusty highway all alone
5. Well, Papa, go to bed now, it's gettin' late. Nothing we can say can change anything now.
Because there's just different people comin' down here now and they see things in different ways and soon everything we've known will just be swept away.
Refr. 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.
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