Free

I had it tough when I was just a little kid

It didn't matter what I thought

It didn't matter what I did

I felt the doubt for what I lacked right from the start

It did a number on my head but it could never touch my heart

'Cause I had just enough imagination

Just enough to keep the faith

That somehow I would think of what to do

When I'd get lost in a momentary weakness of emotion

All the angels came around to help me through

Life blows fast changes, wind blows past pages

All I see is I don't need this

High strung tightrope walk, ticking time bomb clock

Scratch my name off, cut these chains

I'm free.. kicking out of that prision

I am free.. singing those words of wisdom

Let it be.. nobodys gonna put the blues inside of me

And in the stress to be the best I've done it all

I've slammed the doors, I've jammed the locks

I've laid the bricks, I've built the walls

Nobone could tell me back then why joy eluded me

Kept bumping into that misery locked up deep down inside of me

Took that rage and I, turned that page and I

Packed my tools, went back to school

And I passed my graduation, and I hold my PH.D

In crash test blues I paid those dues

Time flies by in photographs and paper scraps and songs

Here I stand in ruby slippers, three taps takes me home