(Music: Marillion Lyrics: Steve Hogarth & John Helmer)
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Heading for the great escape
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Heading for the rave
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Heading for the permanent holiday
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Heading for the winter trip
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Heading for the slide
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Heading for the dignified walk away
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Heading for the open road
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Goodbye to all that
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Heading for the automatic overload
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Standing in the open boat
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Standing in the swing
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Waiting for the ringing and the bright light
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Waiting to be recognised
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Quiet applause will do
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They shower you with flowers when they bury you
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You're holding on, you're holding on ...
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(i) the last of you
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Just when I thought I'd seen the last of you
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You come here scratchin' at my door
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Your pain and anger's in the howling dark
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Of every corridor I walk
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So tell me more about the love that you rejected
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Tell me more about the trust you disrespected
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I still don't know, why did you hurt the very one
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Why did you hurt the very one that you should have protected?
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(ii) fallin' from the moon
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Don't ask me why I'm doing this
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You wouldn't understand
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You're asking the wrong questions
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You couldn't understand
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A bridge is not a high place
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The fifty-second floor
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Icarus would know
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A mountain isn't far to fall
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When you've fallen from the moon
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There's murder on the street
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I'm ashes on the water now, somewhere far away
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I have fallen, fallen from the moon
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The Great Escape (Orchestral Version)
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Marillion |