The Great Escape

“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… Read More [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