Patient anticipation Up till now I be 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 been to leaving Five blocks away, a stone's throw away 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 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 I 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 suppost to know?
I gotta get gone, gone, gone shooting like a gun, a gun, a gun skipping like 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 is busting out of me I'm busting out of independence independence is busting out of me
I gotta get gone, gone, gone shooting like a gun, a gun, a gun skipping like 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.