tell your folks that i get out today
and how your man thirsts
and how his mind works
and tell the kids that i am here to stay
and tell your new one
that he is my son
can't you feel it? your hometown hero is home
babe
it's independence day
can't you see the rockets
the red glare?
and all her dreamers
and party streamers
i'd rather be with you here than anywhere
it felt like a century
in the penitentiary
can't you feel it? your hometown hero is home
babe
it's independence day
can't you feel it? your hometown hero is home
babe
can almost taste it
the whole town's amazin'
threw your man his own parade
you crack one face at a pirates game
they don't care who you are
they just put you away
can't you feel it? that hometown spirit is home
babe
it's independence day