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(Beth Nielsen Chapman/Annie Roboff)



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 along to help me through



Life pulls fast changes

Wind blows past pages

All I see is, I don`t need this

Highstrung tight rope walks

Ticking time bomb clocks

Scratch my name off, cut these chains



I`m free...Kicking out of that prison

I`m free...Singing those words of wisdom

Let it be...Nobody`s 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

Laid the bricks, I`ve built the walls

No one 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`ve passed my graduation

I hold my Ph. D. in crash test blues

I`ve paid those dues



I`m free...

Repeat Chorus



Time flied by in photographs

And paper scraps and songs

Here I stand in ruby slippers

Three taps takes me home...I`m free...