Patient anticipation
D Am
Up till now I’ve been hurry up and waiting
C G D
at a bus stop in independence licking an ice-cream cone
C G
I’ve been kicking I’ve been scheming
D Am
This is as close as I’ve ever been to leaving
C G D
Five blocks away, a stone’s throw from home
Em D Cadd9
But I’m as good as gone
G D
I gotta get gone gone gone
Em C
shooting like a gun a gun a gun
G D
skipping like a stone stone stone
Em C
Far as I can run to where freedom is free
Em D Cadd9
There’s a road like a long gray ribbon far as I can see
Cm
and it’s pulling independence out of me
C G D
C G
Emancipation or paper chasing
D Am
leaving with question marks and Momma’s blessing
C G
I put her picture in my pocket
D
along with her rosary
C G
some say I’m crazy, a little loco
D Am
and most of my friends will live and die in this zip code
C G D
It might be for me but until I go
Em D Cadd9
How am I ever supposed to know
G D
I gotta get gone gone gone
Em C
shooting like a gun a gun a gun
G D
skipping like a stone stone stone
Em C
Far as I can run to where freedom is free
Em D Cadd9
There’s a road like a long gray ribbon far as I can see
G D Em C x 2
G D
I’m busting out of independence
Em C
independence busting out of me
G D
I’m busting out of independence
Em Cm
independence busting out of me
C G D
G D
I gotta get gone gone gone
Em C
shooting like a gun a gun a gun
G D
skipping like a stone stone stone
Em C
Far as I can run to where freedom is free
Em D Cadd9
There’s a road like a long gray ribbon far as I can see
Em D Cadd9
There’s a road like a long gray ribbon far as I can see
Cm
and it’s pulling independence out of me
C G D
C G D
independence
