Escape

He's just a young boy out of school
Livin' his world like he wants to
They're makin' laws, but they don't understand
Turns a boy in to a fightin' man
They won't take me
They won't break me
No one could tell him what to do
Had to learn everything the hard way
He's on the street, breakin' all the rules
I'm tellin' you that he's nobody's fool
They won't take me
They won't break me
Now he's leavin', gettin' out from this masquerade
Oh gotta go


I'm finally out in the clear and i'm free
I've got dreams i'm livin' for
I'm movin' on where they'll never find me
Rollin' on to anywhere
I'll break away, yes i'm on my way
Leavin' today, yes i'm on my way
Just when you think you had it all figured out
Runnin' scared can change your mind
I never knew i had so much to give
How hard times can fool ya
Oh i'm okay, i'm alright
Feelin' good out on your own
I'll break away, i'll break away tonight
I've got dreams i'm livin' for
I'll break away
Yes, i'm on my way
I'm leaving', leavin' today
Yes, i'm on my way
This is my escape
Yes, i'm on my way
I'll break away
Yes, i'm on my way

Workin' in the city
This town's got no pity
Bossman owns a heart of stone
I'm on the line, it's overtime
I'll tell you it's a crime
They get me by the hour
By my blue collar
You're squeezin' me too tight
It's friday night
Let's run tonight
Till the morning light.


Keep on runnin', keep on hidin'
Keep on runnin' away
It's okay, it's alright
It's okay, it's alright
And if it makes you want to jump and shout, go ahead!
Keep on runnin' keep on hidin'
Keep on runnin' away, it's okay.


Crusin' with my baby
Think we just might maybe
Find some back seat rhythm and blues
Radio, down we go, down we go.


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It's been a mystery and still they try to see
Why somethin' good can hurt so bad
Caught on a one-way street, the taste of bittersweet
Love will survive somehow, some way


One love feeds the fire
One heart burns desire
I wonder, who's cryin' now
Two hearts born to run
Who'll be the lonely one
I wonder, who's cryin' now


So many stormy nights, so many wrongs or rights
Neither could change their headstrong ways
And in a lover's rage, they tore another page
The fightin' is worth the love they save...


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Only so many tears you can cry
'til the heartache is over
And now you can say your love
Will never die


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She sits alone, an empty stare
A mother's face she wears
Where did she go wrong,
The fight is gone
Lord help this broken home


Hey, mother, father, sister
Hey, come back, tryin', believein'
Hey, mother, father, dreamer


Don't you know that i'm alive for you
I'm your sevenths son
And when lightin' strikes the family
Have faith, believe.


With dreams he tried, lost his pride
He drinks his life away
One photograph, in broken glass
It should not end this way.


Through bitter tears
And wounded years, those ties
Of blood were strong
So much to say, those yesterdays
So now don't you turn away.


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Lookin' 'round for a feelin'
I love the rhythm and blues
The place was rockin' and reelin'
I thought i'd shake me loose
The band was pumpin' motown
Lord how they could play
The girls a-started singing
Rock the night away


By the midnight hour
They could've raised the dead
They were takin' it higher
Higher, higher, higher, ringin' in my head
Lay it down, lay it down
Lay it down, lay it down


Whisky, wine and women
They get me though the night
I ain't lookin' for trouble
I ain't lookin' to fight
A little vertical persuasion
Would do me right
What i'm really needin'
Ah, double shot tonight.


By the midnight hour
We were on our way
She was takin' it higher
Higher, higher, higher, then i heard say


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