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INDEPENDENCE DAY Lyrics

Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Album: River

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
All boys must run away come Independence Day
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
I swear I never meant to take those things away

Comments/Interpretations

by fast eddy on 3/22/2009 12:00pm
still brings tears to my eyes..as a father i understand it..

by casnbs on 8/19/2009 3:08pm
Just fantastic

by big D on 3/21/2010 3:47pm
Oh man, I relive my young adulthood every time I hear this. Left home at 19, joined the service, hated the old man. Thought I knew it all. Came home 16 years later with a wife and kids. Thank God he was still alive so I could tell him what he meant to me. Get choked up whenever I hear this.