The Great Escape Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Paper bags and plastic hearts
All our belongings in shopping carts
It's goodbye

But we got one more night
Let's get drunk and ride around
And make peace with an empty town
We can make it right

[Chorus]
Throw it away, forget yesterday
We'll make the great escape
And 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

[Verse 2]
Tonight will change our lives
It's so good to be by your side, but 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
[Chorus]
Throw it away, forget yesterday
We'll make the great escape
And 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

[Bridge]
All of the wasted time
The hours that were left behind me
Answers that we'll never find
They don't mean a thing tonight


[Chorus]
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
[Outro]
Watch it burn
Let it die
'Cause we are finally free tonight

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“The Great Escape” is the second single released on March 3, 2007 from Boys Like Girls' eponymous debut album, and is also their first single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at 23. The single has been certified Platinum and gold by the RIAA.

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