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

Just a small town girl, livin' in a lonely world
She took the midnight train goin' anywhere
Just a city boy, born and raised in south detroit
He took the midnight train goin' anywhere


A singer in a smokey room
A smell of wine and cheap perfume
For a smile they can share the night
It goes on and on and on and on


Strangers waiting, up and down the boulevard
Their shadows searching in the night
Streetlight people, living just to find emotion
Hiding, somewhere in the night


Working hard to get my fill,
Everybody wants a thrill
Payin' anything to roll the dice,
Just one more time
Some will win, some will lose
Some were born to sing the blues
Oh, the movie never ends
It goes on and on and on and on


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Don't stop believin'
Hold on to the feelin'
Streetlight people

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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A double secret agent
And he was paid to kill
With cold steel magnum force is how the man possessed the skill
He shot a man in paris
He did a job in l.a.
And if the price was right, he'd surely
Take your life away


Wanted, dead or alive, blood for money, money
Assault, homicide, blood for
Money, money, money, money
Wanted


He drove a maserati, lived up in the hills
A cat with nine lives that's gone
Too far to feel the chill
He never though it'd happen
It was his last mistake
'cause he was gunned down by a
Heartless woman's 38.


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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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