Independence (Album Version)

Patient anticipation

Up 'til now I've been hurry up and waiting

At a bus stop in Independence

Lickin' an ice cream cone

I've been kickin' I've been schemin'

And this is as close as I've ever been to leavin'

Five blocks away a stone's throw from home

But I'm as good as gone

I gotta get gone gone gone

Shootin' like a gun a gun a gun

Skippin' like a stone stone stone

Far as I can run to where freedom is free

There's a road like a long gray ribbon far as I can see

And it's pullin' Independence out of me

Emancipation paper chasin'

Leaving with question marks and mama's blessin'

Put her picture in my pocket

Along with her rosary

Some say I'm crazy a little loco

And most of my friends will live and die in this zip code

It might be for me but until I go

How am I ever supposed to know

I gotta get gone gone gone

Shootin' like a gun a gun a gun

Skippin' like a stone stone stone

Far as I can run to where freedom is free

There's a road like a long gray ribbon far as I can see

I'm bustin' out of Independence

Independence bustin' out of me

I'm bustin' out of Independence

Independence bustin' out of me

I gotta get gone gone gone

Shootin' like a gun a gun a gun

Skippin' like a stone stone stone

Far as I can run to where freedom is free

There's a road like a long gray ribbon far as I can see

There's a road like a long gray ribbon far as I can see

And it's pullin' Independence out of me

Independence