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Artist: Boys Like Girls
Canonical path: /boys-like-girls/the-great-escape
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The Great Escape
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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The Great Escape
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Paper bags and plastic hearts
All our belongings into shopping carts
It's goodbye
But we got one more night
Let's get drunk and ride arounds
And make peace with an empty town
We can make it right
Throw it away, forget yesterday
We'll make the great escape
We won't hear a word they say
They don't know us anyway
Watch it burn, let it die
Cause we are finally free tonight
Tonight will change our lives
It's so good to be by your side
We'll cry
We won't give up the fight
We'll scream loud at the top of our lungs
And they'll think it's just cause we're young
And we'll feel so alive
Throw it away, forget yesterday
We'll make the great escape
We won't hear a word they say
They don't know us anyway
Watch it burn, let it die
Cause we are finally free tonight
All of the wasted time
Hours that we left behind
Answers that we'll never find
They don't mean a thing tonight
Throw it away, forget yesterday
We'll make the great escape
We won't hear a word they say
They don't know us anyway
Throw it away, forget yesterday
We'll make the great escape
We won't hear a word they say
They don't know us anyway
Throw it away, forget yesterday
We'll make the great escape
We won't hear a word they say
They don't know us anyway
Watch it burn, let it die
Cause we are finally free tonight
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