Marc Cohn My Great Escape Lyrics

My Great Escape Lyrics

[PART ONE]





Kickin' stones down by the gypsy shacks

Along the
wrong side of the tracks

Steppin' over all the cracks

Cross my fingers
too



Wishing on that lucky day

When I finally make my
getaway

Won't be nothing left to say (no no)

Only one thing left to
do



Just run through the valleys

And down through the woods

Out
in the alleys

Past the old neighborhoods

(And I know I got) so far to
travel

And the hour is late

But it's out of the darkness

When I
make my great escape

When I make my great escape





[PART
TWO]

He's travellin' down the road tonight

His heart is heavy but his
load is light

He fakes to the left but he moves to the right

On a
lonely road tonight

He moves to the right



And he drops a penny
into a wishing well

Nobody hears him as far as he can tell

He sees a
thousand other wishes lying there

And he rightly wonders if the gods will
care

If the gods are gonna care



So he runs through the
valleys

And on through the woods

Down in the alleys

Past the old
neighborhoods

(And he's got) so far to travel

And the hour is
late

But it's out of the darkness

When he makes his great
escape

When he makes his great escape



When he makes his great
escape