Bruce Springsteen - Independence Day Lyrics

Most underrated Clarence solo!!

I had a big issue with independence with a girlfriend. I found work hard to find and depended on my parents.

"I swear I never meant to take those things away"

Haunted by the glorious memories of my high school days. It was a different time with different people. I never expected these feelings on graduation day

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Avevo sedici anni ed era il mio primo vero concerto sentito. Roma era più bella di quanto ricordassi e la mia voglia di vivere e amare era così sconfinata da abbracciare l’intero Circo Massimo. Sono bastate poche note di questa canzone per farmi crollare in lacrime, senza conoscere veramente il significato di quel brano che mi toccava così tanto. Oggi, a distanza di tanti anni, mi fa ancora piangere e tornare la sedicenne che, con lunghi boccoli scuri, guarda il Boss da lontano, con amore e gratitudine per quel momento indimenticabile.

found this song in...April 2019 maybe? Liked it quite a bit. Hit me pretty hard due to some problems I've had over the years.
My old man passed away a few days ago (July 15th). about to listen again. not sure if I should.

Fathers are overrated anyways

Good one. All chicks learn to fly in order to leave the nest. That's the normal normal.

Les fans de Bruce sont les plus excellentes personnes au monde !

Superb.

Bruce Springsteen is the american version of Roger Waters (Pink Floyd).

I don't see it

@Owen Rees The lyrics of this BS song reminds the Waters's history with their father, The River reminds me to The Wall (famous Pink Floyd's album) in this song and in the title-track. Best Springsteen's album in my opinion.

my dad comitted suicide in front of me when I was younger. He was beat down by my narcissistic mother and sisters. I Refuse to ever let people destroy me as they did to him. this song is an amazing tribute to change

Wow, that's Lost For Words by Pink Floyd what a rip off!

check your timeline... Independence Day written in '77, released in '79. lost for words written in '93, released in '94

Maravillosa

Getting ready to go see my old man on his death bed. I haven't seen him in over 2 years. I first heard this song whilst studying at uny. It was one of most powerful songs I had ever heard. Was a Springsteen fan from that moment on.

Superb song.

i didnt have a normal childhood growing up safe i had an angry father and weak mother who complained about everything and my dad was not normal we were stragners and i´ve become very traumatized by that and a sensitive and scared person i will never forgive my father beacuse i was innocent and i was scared i didnt grow up comforthable and im an angry person and im gonna revenge my father !

Superb...

Listened to this song so so many times in the eighties and decided as I was in London from Ireland it was time to go again so hoped on a flight to USA . Hey no point in talking or dreaming about it . Just go do it , it’s a big wounderful world

When I was 16 my father was the dumbest person I ever met in my life but by the time I turn 25 he sure alot

I guess Pink Floyd owe something to him for using this song's progression and tune for lost for words

Lost For Words was my all-time favourite tune. Then, about a month ago, someone called it a blatant ripoff of this tune.



And, unfortunately, when I listened to this, I realised they were right.



And now I cannot enjoy LFW as I always had previously. :(

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
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 clear 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

Esta bonita y buena canción la compuso BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN y la canto y la publico en el año 1980

Your children are never really yours; they're on loan until they're on their own.

QueerAndUnplugged Mum used to say that children are on loan from God. She had a lot of love.

Every time I hear the first notes of Clarence Clemmon's sax solo, I lose it and tears begin streaming down my face. In memory of my father, Guiseppe...I miss you SO much. Who knew?

As a guy, I have never known one guy who could not relate to this song. Fathers love their sons. As sons, we love our fathers. Our fathers want the best for us. But we, as sons,  have to find and make our own way. At some point, we rebel; we become contrary just for the sake of being contrary. We do these things to demonstrate and build up our sense of becoming independent from our fathers; to become who (we feel) we are meant to be. Most of the time, the father and son reach a point at which they know, and respect, each other as adults. Sometimes, that doesn't happen. It is fairly obvious that at the time he wrote this song Bruce and his father were still working through this phase of their relationship. When I was 19 years old, my father died of cancer. He and I never got to know each other as adults. I was still working my way through it. Then, he was gone.

my father and i are too much of the same kind...i guess

Pink Floyd - Lost For Words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPwucFar9kM

one of his greatest songs

Yes, it is.

This isn't about his father dying it's about Bruce moving out and becoming independent because of all the disagreements and fights between him and his father

lost for words pink floyd?

pacciani innocente

thanks for this song

I hated my father when I was young. And he hated me too. As I got older, I stopped hating him so much. He is gone now and the hate is gone, as well. I do miss him.

i still hate my dad beacuse im scared of him well not really but ive always been to nice and easily scared
and afraid of fighting and nobody is gonna blame me for it but some have and they didnt respect my feelings and they just wanted to judge me and didnt care what i was going thrue and they didnt respect my feelings or nothing when i didnt defend myself beacuse i was conflict afraid and to nice but thats not my fault but i blamed myself for it cause i didnt have strong parents my mother was passive and my father was angry all the time and annoyed and i hate him im never gonna forgive im gonna take revenge and then i slipped into an depression and he didnt respect that and its hes fault im gonna fuck him up so bad beacuse he stoled my childhood and made me very insecure and anxious and we were strangers and he was glad and just complained and moaned and my mother to i hate them so much ! well not my mother but my father i hate beacuse i was scared of him and couldnt defend myself i was innocent and very insecure and i still am not totally but im conflict afraid but no more im gonna take back my life beacuse it wasnt my fault ! and i started using my father for money and i still am and gonna do so until i´ve gotten revenge beacuse im worth it and he deserves it and yes im angry and i deserve to be angry and its not strange that im angry anybody would beacuse im so hurt inside im gonna revenge my father and fuck him up so bad nobody can take that away from me or blame me for that but they thought it wasnt good beacuse they were arrogant and disrespectful towards me and never ever am i gonna be nice anymore or care what people say and nobody is gonna stop me from getting the life i deserve and want ! ´ve been nice for to long and i lost myself and my self esteem and worth and who i am i just know myself a little but im very insecure and cant admit to myself who i am and dont wanna see it beacuse i´ve buildt up this image of myself but thats not my fault and nobody is gonna blame me for it either and judge me for it beacuse there are so many idiots out there who think theyr better then me and get angry for no reason and im very conflict afraid not so strange considering my childhood but its never to late and i deserve a happy life and prosperous life !

a few days ago, chris cornell took his own life. since that happened, for some reason, i cant stop thinking of this song . i guess it's because it's a song about making a tough decision to move to the next stage and acknowledging the expectations of people who you care about as they watch you say goodbye and the consequences it will have on relationships.

kinda feel like if chris could send us a message from beyond the grave right now he would sing us this song..

My grandson left his dad's home last week. I find this song healing and wish I could share it with both of them. But different generation. Healing for me though.

I wanted my independence day. How right my parents were all the time, and I never paid attention to them. How I miss my parents now!

Hello Bruce Springsteen the river ard Kiss love you memores ricording love my ok thank you very much.

Just watched the docu. Ties and although i first heard this back from release it got a tear in my eye after so long , this man is an absolute one off genius both with lyrics and sounds.

buona serata a tutti

this song makes me think about the relationship I had with my dad. it was never good.

cus everything we known will just be swept away. that's that line that speaks to me.

Reminds me of my stepdad

okay, did he say goodbye in the end? :P

Clarence's touch

a masterpiece.

Fukking genious. Incomparable.

Pink Floyd's song Lost for Words (From the Division Bell) sound allot familiar

I think youll find Springsteens masterpiece was written in 1980 a good 14 years before the Pink Floyd song all respect

Not really? Quite different story, word style and really different music.

It ain't about losing a father, it's about a son whose leaving home . He's tried his best to patch things up with his Dad but he's at that point. We all have stories like that,I know I do

Same here, Elle. My dad is a horrible person. I tried to reason with him and see his side of things but to no avail. He walked out on my mother and I dont see him any more. I don't even miss him. Life isn't a fairy tale. Sometimes things don't work out and bad guys win.

still fine

This song has the best or most distinguish ever organ melody/solo. Just perferct.

You're kidding, right?

Astaris - perhaps ray mond doesn't know music that well, but he just means he likes the melody. He's allowed to like it, it's a good melody

listening to this on independence day 2016

In honor of the English people that yesterday, June 23, 2016 , was released from the noose of the European Union

it's a song about a boy who loses his father you cretinous Brexit moron.

Rarely have I had to read short-sighted rubbish like your's... :D "Debilio" - indeed...

Dear oh dear. You obviously haven't bothered to listen to these amazing lyrics have you?

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You understand nothing

Song of the day 22-04-2016: It's been five years, today, since you left home, and I want you to know. You made it. You made it like trees make it back to spring: thoroughly undressed, bent out of shape, calloused from thawing, ugly. Your father never did forgive you, but once awhile he sneaks a look at you, like something new, and that's as close to a thank you as he'll give. There's no one here to hold you at the finish line, no cry of relief, but you still walk like a one man army, and that'll have to do for now. Yesterday you strolled through the mall, with the same aimlessness as you did 6 years ago; perhaps your mouth hung too loosely, perhaps you walked in a circle, twice; but I especially recall how quickly you left that shoe store when it no longer interested you. I want to think that's proof you've made it: how little sympathy you have for things that don't make you squeal in laughter and anger alike. Good luck kid, and I love you. You still watch too much porn, go outside.

Song of the day 01.09.2017/ Here we go round the prickly pear, the prickly pear: a thought did hit me, perhaps, i should lighten up a bit?

Nah, I'm the single dad of a nineteen year old man, it was sweet, I hear you.

04.01.2018/ i never did think any of my highest hopes could be reached by ambition alone, there’d be a childishness in such a psyche. I....need....friends....

14/06/2019: RAPS WIN THE CHIP!!

One of the best ballads ever written and my all time favorite Bruce Springsteen song. Totally captures the relationship between a father and his young son. It also has that feeling of "longing" and "loneliness" which is at the core of many of Bruce's best songs.

Bruce Springsteen the river

I never really got this song until I had my daughters, watching them grow and become independent .. rites of passage, marking time, those steps away from me - with every step, every first, this song would drift through my thoughts... I began to realize that for us Independence Day is a series of moments, some joyful, some heartbreaking, some simply missed in the long hours of everyday. Every time I listen to it, it seems I find new moments in my own life to reflect up on.

Hello beatlelover111,

I'm single and I do not have any children and I am also male so I will not feel the feelings you feel when for example you write:

As I watched her walk across the stage to receive her diploma, the words " Say good bye it's independence day" reverberated through my mind, as it had many times through out my girls' lives.

However while life moves forward in steps as you say think of the moment if you remember it that is when you first made eye contact with the father of your children. That was a life changing moment for you and the moment that changed my life for the better was when I resolved to stop feeling angry with Mammy in other words to forgive her sometime in the month of November 2007. I took a great step forward when that happened.
In general we advance by one day at a time or in a time interval less than that and I will never till the day I die become independent of both of my parents whom I long to see again and will see again. There might be the presence of arrogance a kind of dismissing of the other person a disregarding of the other person whom we are becoming independent of in someone who wants independence but we are forever dependent on each other even the most criminally abusive people that there are me adding there but for the grace of God go I that is a fact..
However cutting the ties that bind in a toxic relationship is probably very important just like many peoples' relationship with cigarettes is for example when I smoked for a total of 13 yeas many decades ago. Indeed it's only a matter of time before biologists discover the chemical processes that addict us to people who have abused us like the nicotine in tobacco.
There is no doubt whatsoever than anyone can abuse another like a father or mother abusing outright a son or daughter in the many ways that that can be done and cutting those ties in such a case is very important and key to that person feeling happy and more whole. None of us are the whole picture so to speak and just seeing as it is implied in this song the limitations of another is critical. It might work like that for some people but I didn't look at Mammy as having limitations but rather understood the person I was hurting the most was myself by being angry with Mammy.
You are right to think that there are many independence days but significant events can happen for sure in our lives.
You come across to me as someone who has accomplished great things in your life like having children and you are now an observer from a place of security and happiness - been there done that - so to speak when you have been in the very places where your children are now and it worked out for you clearly in ways for the better. You can now relax a bit as you appear to be doing and confident that your children will have the relatively happy life you appear to me to have had. None of us know what tomorrow may bring but there is such a thing as the average experience overall and maybe that's your experience and you now feel confident that your children will have a similar experience say an average experience but my quickly pointing out that that is the most wonderful thing when so many do not have even that.
Your life and my life could be very different indeed depending where we reincarnate next time.

Peter Nolan. Ph.D.(physics). Dublin. Ireland

Hello James,

The song Independence Day is about a son let's say "finding himself" to quote a well used phrase and to use a phrase that in itself is a bit hard to understand. Let me see if I can explain it this way. My doctorate is in experimental physics from November 1986 but my first love is chemistry. So when I was going to school age 13 I was learning chemistry for the very first time in my life. So of course I continued to study and left school and went into university here in Dublin. I stopped studying chemistry after year two in uni and went on to study physics.
After I qualified in physics I was now able to teach physics in schools and that's exactly what I did. I went to Nairobi, Kenya from 1975 to 1979 to teach in St. Mary's School(Google).
However I had learned the basics in physics and this enabled me to think about physics problems that I was most interested in and by being able to do that by having learned from the masters I achieved independence and at some point after second year going into third year I then knew enough to think about problems in physics and chemistry on m my own independently and that was my independence day.
So a son can learn from his father or mother throughout childhood and into the teenage years but very often that learning is very painful. However it can work out, and often it never works out, that in spite of the pain and the differences between a son or daughter and their parents that the son or daughter learns the lessons but then at some point they are able to stand on their own two feet and become independent.
When that happens and it can take decades before it happens we achieve our independence and we are then able to interact with the world in our own unique way and teach lessons we have the authority to teach.
Does that help?

Peter Nolan. Ph.D.(physics). Dublin. Ireland.

Hello James,

I apologise to you. I just noted that you were replying to Astaris not to me. I'm sorry. Oops!

Peter Nolan. Ph.D. (physics), Ireland.

Hello James,

Many thanks.

Peter.

Hello James,

Well I too like everybody else in any democracy have only one vote and I hope you cast that one all important vote when you get the chance at that point to say everything that is on your mind.

Peter.

who cares what the songs about. IT FUCKIN ROCKS.

I realize that this is not what the song is about but to me it was always about the native Americans. For the English it was Independence Day, but for them it was heartbreak loss sorrow and pain and they were trapped and confined by the English who had no right as a human to do what they did. The English expected them to follow rules that all of the native Americans knew nothing about . They didn't have a say in the making of these rules and yet were forced to follow them because the government said so

+Linh Le This song is not about Independence day or America`s history. It is about an household that no longer can hold a father and son which makes the son leave because the son recognizes that despite their similarilties, the father and son would never agree but just continue to argue constantly, and so it was time for the son to leave home. Please do not make this to a debate.

+Markus Nilsson I do not think that Linh Le is making a debate, he is just relating to the song in his own way. The song is moving, what difference does it make if an individual makes his own associations from it?

+Karen Hatch That is very simply due to the fact that the premise for his comment is completely wrong.

The English never had much contact with the Native Americans. It was mainly the Americans after 1776 when America started expanding westwards.

Such a great fucking song oh my God

My dad died 6 months after he retired,busted his ass all his effin life,wtf
I have so many regrets and so much guilt for taking him and the father son relationship for granted,many nights when it's dark and quiet the tears flow,being in my head is a sad and lonely feeling.
My father,mother,sister and wife have passed away,I no longer have my best listeners the loved ones that didn't pass judgement that were in my corner no matter what,I could always lean on them,god I miss them all so much.
Please forgive me mom,dad,gloria and sister bonnie for not giving back to you nearly as much as I took from you.
I love and miss you all more than I can say in words,I would gladly give one year of my life for five minutes with any one of you.
God bless you.

Thank you Charles for taking time to write something so caring I really appreciate your kind words. You're right it never feels like enough, is that human nature? Thinking I should have done more really hits hard sometimes.

steve i

He loved you. He busted his ass for you and never expected a thank you. All we can do is live whatever life we have left in a way that honors their memory.

So sorry for your loss. I lost my dad two months ago. He was a year away from retirement, and my parents were planing to move by my wife and me. Maybe you didn't overtly say thank you as much as you wish, but believe me, your father knew how grateful you.

You don't realize how much you lose upon gaining independence - until you have it.

652Graystripe freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose.

"My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings."
   Jay London 

Have a GREAT Independence Day! July 4th, 2014

Happy day indeed Chuck.
But that is NOT what this song is about

Happy 4th of July 2014🎉

Everyone can identify with this at some level.  That is the depth of Bruce Springsteen's talent.  He puts his heart and soul into it, always!

my dads an arsehole

this song is hellaciously fucked up. growing up and having serious differences with your dad. so sad and so real

It's Independence Day,
All boys must run away.

So say goodbye,
It's Independence Day,
It's Independence Day...
All down the line.

Right on.

Fun fact: This song was recorded originally for Darkness on the Edge of Town in 1978, but not used there. The track actually comes from the Darkness on the Edge of Town sessions; it was not rerecorded.

Chris Nemec I think it would’ve fit in alright with Darkness; it had a couple songs about him struggling with his father too

the Boss....

this song bings a tear to my eye

I don't know what it is in this song but it makes me feel different... like if I was flying up in the air... thank you bruce you are the best!!!!!

One of the best fucking songs ever...

bruce....amazing....he identifies with most young males and their struggles to make a life for themselves...say what you want, but he "is" the "greatest songwriter to ever grace the earth"... 'nough said....................

pappa, now I now the things you wanted....... That you could not say.. True.

Boss................ you NEVER fail to inspire me fella
Love you today, love you tomorrow and love you in 2020

Brilliant song, everybody has to experience their own independence day at some point

I hope so. My favorite Springsteen song. Reminds me so much of my Dad who passed away before Bruce wrote this song. Stubborn fathers and sons everywhere take heed. Beautiful.

Today is Independence Day. Today Im going to the Springsteen concert in Paris. I think he will perform this... Even if its not related to the 4th of july

Sorry of i answer late, but I realised you mean a version i heard many times. Simply incredible! More meditative and calm than the studio version. Just cant imagine how it felt to watch it live

One of the songs that made me a Bruce fanatic all those years ago...magnificent songwriting

I see your true colors?

@Trickme10 ahh, ok, thanks

@TheCheezhead15 he is not dead

RIP BIG MAN

RIP BIG MAN