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