The Great Escape -- Boys Like Girls

Paper bags and plastic hearts All are 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

(**)  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  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

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All of the wasted time  The hours that were left behind
The answers that we'll never find  They don't mean a thing tonight

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This song is about getting away from authority, and most likely relates to high school. It's about forgetting all the adults, leaving your cares behind and having fun.             (songfacts)