Well Papa go to bed now it's getting late
Nothing we can say is gonna change
I'll be lea ving in the morning from
We wouldn't change this thing even if we
'Cause the darkness of this house has got the
There's a darkness in this town that's
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
Now I don't know what it always was with us
We chose the words, and yeah,
There was just no way this house could hold
I guess that we were just
too much of the same kind
Now the rooms are all empty
And the highway she's deserted down to
There's a lot of people leaving town now
Leaving their friends, their homes
At night they walk that dark and dusty
Well Papa go to bed now it's getting late
Nothing we can say is gonna change
Because there's just different
people coming down here now
And they see things in different ways
And soon everything we've known will