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Boys Like Girls - The Great Escape
[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.
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.
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,
The answers that we'll never find,
They don't mean a thing tonight.
[Hook]
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.
[Verse 3]
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.
[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.
Watch it burn, let it die,
'Cause we are finally free tonight.
"The Great Escape" is the second single from Boys Like Girls' eponymous debut album and is their first single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at 23. The single has been certified platinum and gold by the RIAA. According to the song's writer Martin Johnson in a lyric feature on Euphonia Online, the lyrical content of the song is about his graduating from high school: "This song is about leaving the town I grew up in with my best friends at my side. A graduation-type song with a “we’re up to no good, fuck this town, let’s do it up for one more night” twist. I wrote it as a last hurrah to high school, growing up, and in a sense… the last night of being a kid. It’s the end of one chapter… with an outlook on the future… sort of like a prequel to the rest of the record." The music video was directed by Alan Ferguson. Released in late February 2007, it was added to MTV playlists and received considerable airplay on those channels along with Fuse TV. The video was #1 on MTV's Total Request Live for 9 days in the summer and fall of 2008. It features the band on the road, as well as in concert, while detailing the journey of a group of their high school aged fans on the way to and during their best concert. It goes back and forth between the band and the high schoolers showing their journey as they both make their way to the concert the band will be playing at. The end of the video implies a budding romance between the adult band members and their high school fans. The song has also appeared as a downloadable track for the Xbox 360 karaoke game, Lips, and featured on the soundtrack of 2K Sports' Top Spin 3. The song is featured in the Nintendo DS version of the game by Activision, Band Hero and was made available as a downloadable track for the Rock Band game in June 2010. The song is featured on the soundtrack to the film The House Bunny. It was also used in promotion for the NBC show Life. The song was used in episode 64 and 154 of Running Man, and was used in episode 189 of Dream Team II. The song is also a playable level in the Nintendo Wii-exclusive video game We Cheer, We Cheer 2.
