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Let's Escape Idealism

from The Low Lights Make Me Love You by Liss Victory

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Caught a glimpse of you in the rearview
- the rearview
Hitchhiker tryin' to make his way home
- home sweet home
To his loved ones and his wife
- blushing bride
Gotta ask you stranger;
where do you find the time?
- don't got the time

Why do we follow those lines painted on the pavement like they rule our lives?
Baby, they're just guidelines.
If we made our own way maybe we would survive the night
Instead of mourning yesterday.


Saw your picture in the paper
- newspaper
Delivered everyday at 5am sharp
- sharp
Headline read wanted fugitive
- armed and dangerous
Armed and intuitive to what might make my life more exciting
- excite me


They say we can't run away forever
well, I beg to differ, yes I beg to differ.
Run away with me
Run away with me
Run away with me
Needn't be a flight of fancy

Goin' down the county route headed for the state line
- the state line
Come on in, baby,
Maybe I can buy you a little bit of time
- just a minute
We can take dirt roads all the way to Mexico City
- another country
Let them find us there
Sippin' cocktails sittin' pretty
- so so pretty

And when I lay alone in bed
I wonder if I could settle down
take a new name and a ring
live my life out in a small town.
We could name our children
after songs we heard on the radio
and they'd lay in bed and wonder
how they came to call this place home.
Where do we go where is home?
Where do we go? What is home?

When the cops finally caught up with us,
no longer hand-in-hand,
but bound in handcuffs.

So I say goodbye, so I say goodbye,
And promise myself I won't cry
I won't cry, I won't cry, I won't cry,
Hell no! I won't cry!
Escape with me! Run away with me!
Escape with me!
Run away!
Run away run away run away run away!
Run away run away run away run away!

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from The Low Lights Make Me Love You, released April 10, 2015

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Liss Victory Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Victory uses her music as a force against the struggle. Playing a grungy guitar rhythm paired with thought-provoking lyrics, she writes "hurricane-voiced songs that can be dark, but not necessarily bleak." Her work reflects a Middle American background, growing up in the shadows of a withering industrial Pennsylvania during the longest war in United States history. ... more

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