Songwriter: Dennis Belfield Joey Carbone Michelle Hart

Producer: Joey Carbone

You used to call me baby
It always felt so right
But little girls can grow up faster
Than the speed of light

I'm another lady
Under this disguise
Sophisticated woman
Standing right before your eyes

More than anything in the whole world
I want to be an independent girl

Hope you understand me
Breakin' all the rules
But I just want much more from life
Than little girls can choose

I don't have every answer
To the problems of the world
But I can't help resolve them
If I'm just your little girl

More than anything in the whole world
I want to be an independent girl

Wanna move through the days like a gentle breeze
While I'm feelin' so free
Gonna get what I want independently
Come and go as I please

You know I can't wait any longer
Yeah and I'm feeling much stronger
More than anything in the whole world
Want to be an independent girl
More than anything in the whole world
Want to be an independent girl

Kim Carnes

Kim Carnes (born July 20, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, she began her career as a songwriter in the 1960s, writing for other artists while performing in local clubs and working as a session background singer with the famed Waters sisters (featured in the documentary 20 Feet from Stardom). After she signed her first publishing deal with Jimmy Bowen, she released her debut album Rest on Me in 1972. Carnes' self-titled second album primarily contained self-penned songs, including her first charting single “You’re a Part of Me”, which reached No. 35 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in 1975. In the following year, Carnes released Sailin', which featured “Love Comes from Unexpected Places”. The song won the American Song Festival and the award for Best Composition at the Tokyo Song Festival in 1976.