Independence Day

Album: The River (1980)
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  • 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 Saint 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
    I swear I never meant to take those things away Writer/s: Bruce Springsteen
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Eddie Nj from New JerseyOne of his better songs. If Bruce wasn’t so political, I’d be more of a fan.
  • Johnny from Los Angeles, CaYes it is, Steven. This is about how his dad inspired the rebel in Bruce. Independence Day is Bruce going on a different path then his father. Sad.

    (The song, not the choice)
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