[00:00.80]Patient anticipation
[00:04.41]Up   til now I  ve been hurry up and waiting
[00:08.41]At a bus stop in Independence
[00:12.34]Lickin   an ice cream cone
[00:15.60]I  ve been kickin  , I  ve been schemin  
[00:19.98]And this is as close as I  ve ever been to leavin  
[00:24.04]Five blocks away a stone  s throw from home
[00:28.57]
[00:31.19]But I  m as good as gone
[00:38.32]I gotta get gone, gone, gone
[00:42.69]Shootin   like a gun, a gun, a gun
[00:46.05]Skippin   like a stone, stone, stone
[00:49.98]Far as I can run to where freedom is free
[00:54.90]There  s a road like a long gray ribbon far as I can see
[00:58.78]And it  s pullin   Independence out of me
[01:04.47]
[01:09.92]Emancipation, paper chasin  
[01:11.79]
[01:14.33]Leaving with question marks and mama  s blessin  
[01:17.89]Put her picture in my pocket
[01:20.40]Along with her rosary
[01:22.96]
[01:25.20]Some say I  m crazy, a little loco
[01:29.63]And most of my friends will live and die in this zip code
[01:34.02]It might be for me but until I go
[01:38.96]
[01:41.08]How am I ever supposed to know
[01:47.57]
[01:48.13]I gotta get gone, gone, gone
[01:51.96]Shootin   like a gun, a gun, a gun
[01:55.78]Skippin   like a stone, stone stone
[01:59.65]Far as I can run to where freedom is free
[02:04.48]There  s a road like a long gray ribbon far as I can see
[02:12.84]
[02:27.64]bustin   I  m out of Independence
[02:29.21]
[02:31.16]Independence bustin   out of me
[02:34.34]
[02:34.90]I  m bustin   out of Independence
[02:38.28]Independence bustin   out of me
[02:44.62]I gotta get gone, gone, gone
[02:48.00]Shootin   like a gun, a gun, a gun
[02:52.03]Skippin   like a stone, stone stone
[02:55.73]Far as I can run to where freedom is free
[03:00.38]There  s a road like a long gray ribbon far as I can see
[03:07.44]
[03:08.06]There  s a road like a long gray ribbon far as I can see
[03:13.99]And it  s pullin   Independence out of me
[03:18.06]
[03:22.61]Independence
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