Independence

Album: The Band Perry (2010)
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  • Patient anticipation
    Up 'til 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 supposed 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
    There's a road like a long gray ribbon far as I can see
    And it's pulling independence out of me.
    Independence. Writer/s: AARON HENNINGSEN, BRIAN HENNINGSEN, CLARA HENNINGSEN, KIMBERLY PERRY, NEIL PERRY, REID PERRY
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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