On Independence Day

Oh! I saw right through your eyes

(Whoa oh, whoa oh, whoa oh)

I saw right through your guise

(Whoa oh, whoa oh, whoa oh)

Every word that left your lips was

(Whoa oh, whoa oh, whoa oh)

Just a covert disguise to hide your absent mind

(Whoa oh, whoa oh, whoa oh)



You live and breathe, sleep and drink

Beg and plead, blind, diseased

No water can wash the blood off your hands

On Independence Day, on Independence Day



Oh! Whoa oh, whoa oh, whoa oh

Whoa oh, whoa oh, whoa oh



Traded the Nobel Peace Prize

(Whoa oh, whoa oh, whoa oh)

Exchanged for Vietnamese lives

(Whoa oh, whoa oh, whoa oh)

Bombs filled the Cambodian skies

(Whoa oh, whoa oh, whoa oh)

In East Timor you stood up for the wrong side

Wrong side, wrong side

(Whoa oh, whoa oh, whoa oh)



You live and breathe, sleep and drink

Beg and plead, blind, diseased

No water can wash the blood off your hands

On Independence Day, on Independence Day

On Independence Day (whoa oh, whoa oh)

On Independence Day



No water can wash the blood off your hands

No it can't, no it can't

No water can wash the blood off your hands

No it can't, no it can't

No water can wash the blood off your hands

No it can't, no it can't

No water can wash the blood off your hands

No it can't, no it can't!