The Great Escape
Key: GEnglish
Verse
CHeading for the great escape
Am6Heading for the rave
GHeading for the permanent Emholiday
CHeading for the winter trip
Am6Heading for the slide
GHeading for the dignified G7walk away
Verse
CHeading for the open road
Am6Goodbye to all that
GHeading for the automatic Emoverload
CStanding in the open boat
Am6Standing in the swing
GWaiting for the ringing and the G7bright light
CWaiting to be recognised
Am6Quiet applause will do
GThey shower you with flowers when D(sus2)they bury you
Bridge
AbUh huh Bbouh
AbOh ouh uh oh Bb
AbYou're holding on Bb
AbAnd you're holding Bbon...
And you Emhold...
Em C A G
Verse
EmJust when I thought I'd seen the last of you
CYou come here scratchin' at my Adoor G
EmYour pain and anger's in the howling dark
COf every corridor I Awalk G
Em C A G (x2)
Verse
EmSo tell me more about the love that you rejected
CTell me more about the Atrust you Gdisrespected
I Emstill don't know why did you hurt the very one
CWhy did you hurt the very one
That Ayou should have D(sus2)protected?
Dm ... Bb ... Dm ... Bb ... Gm
Verse
CDon't ask me why I'm doing this
CYou wouldn't understand
AmYou're asking the wrong questions
AmYou couldn't understand
A Cbridge is not a high place
CThe fifty-second floor
AmIcarus would know
A Ammountain isn't far to fall
FWhen you've fallen
DmWhen you've fallen from the Gmoon
C ... Am ... C ... Am ... F ... Dm ... G