| As long as I remember I’ve been learning to escape
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| I lock myself in places, situations I can’t change
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| I feel older than my age is, they say I’m too young to know
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| Tomorrow’s my 10th birthday, I’ll take my BMX and go
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| I’ll be a master of illusion, and live by the honor code
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| I’ll do my work in private and I’ll keep my secrets close
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| I’m sick of all the grownups, and how everybody lies
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| Don’t ever under-estimate a kid with seven lives
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| Break away like Houdini
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| While there’s still some mystery
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| Tomorrow you won’t see me
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| By the time you find this tape
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| I’ll have made my great escape
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| They put me in these boxes, with too many locks to pick
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| Running out of breath is how I lost life number six
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| But I know I’m getting better, I’ll do anything to survive
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| And I think I kind of like life number five
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| Break away like Houdini
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| While there’s still some mystery
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| Tomorrow you won’t see me
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| By the time you find this tape
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| I’ll have made my great escape
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| I’m out here on my own now, with no family or friends
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| Chains I can get out of, it’s love I don’t understand
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| I guess there’s only so much escaping you can do
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| And just like that I burned lives four to two
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| Break away like Houdini
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| While there’s still some mystery
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| Tomorrow you won’t see me
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| By the time you find this tape
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| I’ll have made my great escape
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| I’m older now and wondering why I wanted to get out
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| So I found that tape and listened to me say the
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| Words out loud
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| I’m sure I can’t remember what I kept running to
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| What I made them think was magic wasn’t true
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| Break away like Houdini
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| While there’s still some mystery
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| Tomorrow you won’t see me
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| By the time you find this tape
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| I’ll have made my great escape
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| So gone is all the glamour, the crowds, the mystery
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| For my final trick I’ll tell you how life up here looks to me
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| Even someone like Houdini never really got away
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| I guess I’m outta lives now, I wish I cherished every day
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| When you only have one life, you better cherish every day |