Onafhankelijkheidsdag

We carried you in our arms on Independence Day

And now you'd throw us all aside and put us all away

Oh, what dear daughter 'neath the sun could treat a father so?
To wait upon him hand and foot and always tell him "No"

Tears of rage, tears of grief

Why must I always be the thief?
Come to me now, you know we're so low
And life is brief

It was all very painless when you went out to receive

All that false instruction which we never could believe
And now the heart is filled with gold as if it was a purse
But, oh, what kind of love is this which goes from bad to worse?

Tears of rage, tears of grief

Why must I always be the thief?
Come to me now, you know we're so low
And life is brief

We pointed you the way to go and scratched your name in sand

Though you just thought it was nothing more than a place for you to stand
I want you to know that while we watched you discovered no one would be true
And I myself was among the ones who thought it was just a childish thing to do

Tears of rage, tears of grief

Why must I always be the thief?
Come to me now, you know we're so low
And life is brief

The Band – Tears of rage, geschreven door Bob Dylan en Richard Manuel