| 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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| Cause the darkness of this house has got the best of us There’s a darkness in this town that’s got us too
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| But they can’t touch me now
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| And you can’t touch me now
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| They ain’t gonna do to me
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| 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
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| 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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| Now I don’t know what it always was with us We chose the words, and yeah, we drew the lines
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| There was just no way this house could hold the two of us
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| I guess that we were just too much of 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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| Now the rooms are all empty down at Frankie’s joint
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| And the highway she’s deserted down to Breaker’s Point
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| There’s a lot of people leaving town now
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| Leaving their friends, their homes
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| At night they walk that dark and dusty highway all alone
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| Well 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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| Because 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 |