The Great Escape

Heading for the great escape
Heading for the rave
Heading for the permanent holiday
Heading for the winter trip
Heading for the slide
Heading for the dignified walkaway
Heading for the open road
Goodbye to all that
Heading for the automatic overload
Standing in the open boat
Standing in the swing
Waiting for the ringing
And the bright light
Waiting to be recognized
Quiet laughs will do
They shower you with flowers
When they bury you
You're old enough
You're old enough
You're old
Just when I thought I'd see the last of you
You come here scratching at my door
You're bait and daggers in the only dark
Of every corridor I walk
Tell me more
About the love that you rejected
Tell me more
About the choice you disrespected
I still don't know
Why did you hurt the very one
Why did you hurt the very one
That you should have protected?
Don't ask me why I'm doing this
You wouldn't understand
You're asking the wrong questions
You couldn't understand
A bridge is not a high place
The 52nd floor
Icarus would know
The mountain isn't far to fall
When you fall out
When you fall out
From the moon
You're floating on the street
Ashes on the water now
Some other fire breaks
I am falling
Falling
Falling