Independence Day
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1. Well, papa, go to bed now, it’s getting late,
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nothing we can say
is gonna change anything now.
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I’ll be leaving in the morning from St. Mary’s Gate,
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we wouldn’t change
this thing even if we
could somehow.
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2. ‘Cause the darkness of this house has got the best of us,
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there’s
a darkness in this town that’s got us, too.
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But they can’t touch
me now, and you can’t touch
me now,
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they ain’t gonna do to me what I watched
them do to you.
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So, say goodbye, it’s
Independence Day,
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it’s
Independence Day all down the line.
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Just say goodbye, it’s Independence Day,
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it’s
Independence Day this time.
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3. Now I don’t know what it
always was with us,
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we
chose the words, and, yeah, we drew the lines.
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There was just no way this
home could hold the two of us,
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I guess that we were just too
much oft the same kind.
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Well, say goodbye, it’s
Independence Day,
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it’s
Independence Day, all boys must run away.
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So, say goodbye, it’s
Independence Day,
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all
men must make their way, come Independence Day.
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4. Now the rooms are all empty down at Frankie’s Joint,
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and the highway she’s deserted clear down to Breaker’s Point.
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There’s a lot of people
leaving town now, leaving their friends,
their
homes,
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at
night they walk that dark and dusty highway all alone.
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5. Now, papa go to bed now, it’s getting late,
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nothing
we can say can change anything now.
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There’s just
different people coming
down here now,
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and they see things in different ways,
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and
soon everything we’ve known will just be swept away.
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So, say goodbye, it’s
Independence Day,
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Papa, now I know the things
you wanted that you could not say.
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But won’t you just say
goodbye, it’s Independence Day ?
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I swear I never meant to take those things
away.
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(orig.
= capo 3rd) (Bruce Springsteen)