Independence

Patient anticipation Up till now I've been hurry up and waiting At a bus stop in independence licking an ice cream cone I've been kicking I've been scheming This is as close as I've ever been to leaving Five blocks away, a stone's throw from home But I'm as good as gone I gotta get gone, gone, gone Shooting like a gun, a gun, a gun Skipping 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 pulling independence out of me Emancipation or paper chasing Leaving with question marks and Momma's blessing 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 Shooting like a gun, a gun, a gun Skipping 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 busting out of independence Independence's busting out of me I'm busting out of independence Independence's busting out of me I gotta get gone, gone, gone Shooting like a gun, a gun, a gun Skipping 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 pulling independence out of me. Independence.