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
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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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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 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 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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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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Because there's just different people coming down here now 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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Independence Day
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| The Waterboys |
