Independence
Patient anticipationUp till now I've been hurry up and waitingAt a bus stop in independence licking an ice cream coneI've been kicking I've been schemingThis is as close as I've been to leavingFive blocks away, a stone's throw away from homebut I'm as good as gone
I gotta get gone, gone, goneshooting like a gun, a gun, a gunskipping like stone, stone, stoneFar as I can run to where freedom is freeThere's a road like a long gray ribbon far as I can seeAnd it's pulling independence out of me
Emancipation or paper chasingLeaving with question marks and Momma's blessingI put her picture in my pocket along with her rosarySome say I'm crazy, a little locoand most of my friends will live and die in this zip codeIt might be for me but until I goHow am I ever supposed to know?
I gotta get gone, gone, goneshooting like a gun, a gun, a gunskipping like stone, stone, stoneFar as I can run to where freedom is freeThere's a road like a long gray ribbon far as I can see
I'm busting out of independenceindependence is busting out of meI'm busting out of independenceindependence is busting out of me
I gotta get gone, gone, goneshooting like a gun, a gun, a gunskipping like stone, stone, stoneFar as I can run to where freedom is freeThere's a road like a long gray ribbon far as I can seeThere's a road like a long gray ribbon far as I can seeAnd it's pulling independence out of me.Independence.