Escape
“Written as a struggling college student, I romanticized… I could feel the weight of the world pressing in on me already… Somewhere deep within me, I wanted liberation…I wanted to throw myself into someone…someone I could trust and love…who also trusted and loved me…that would stand with me and me with her… I used to think this song was pure cheese whiz…but it makes me happy…and certainly that makes it not trivial…at least to me… Everyone was 20 at some point…a fleeting and passing time…and ALL things pass… It is good to occasionally grasp back into our lives and pull it back into the present…”
~Andrew
They say I won’t make it And that I don’t know what I’m doing I’ve got no reputation to ruin I’m a day away from twenty And you’re not far behind We’re two kids with a future to find We’ll escape from this darkness So let the world beware There’s something happening beneath the stars That doesn’t happen just anywhere You’re my escape, you’re my refuge Baby you’re the only one who I really ever knew Who could break me out from this mess I’m in You’re my escape from the world where we live You seem so restless, like it’s tearing you into I’ve got no reservations about you Let’s cast our cares into the wind And say a prayer before we begin Our liberation flight God knows that we’re right We’ll escape from this darkness It’s our chance to be rescued From the private wars that rage in me that also rage in you You’re my escape, you’re my refuge Baby you’re the only one who I really ever knew Who could break me out from this mess I’m in You’re my escape from the world where we live Whispers rise above the night And find their way across the sky A universe in front of them We’re pauper’s heirs sending prayers to heaven Together we can make it just you and me With a spin of the wheels We’ll blow this routine Hey I’m not that sharp But girl I’ve got a whole lot of heart