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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.. 

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

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

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 

Here I stand in ruby slippers 

And paper scraps and songs 

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