Capo 3rd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

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

 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 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

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 I'm busting out of independence

 independence busting out of me

 I'm busting out of independence

 independence 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