Great Escape Chords & Tabs
A
Paper bags and plastic hearts
A/G#
All our belongings in shopping carts
C#m
It's goodbye
A
But we got one more night
E
Let's get drunk and ride around
B
And make peace with an empty town
C#m A
We can make it right
Chorus:
C#m
Throw it away
A
Forget yesterday
E B
We'll make the great escape
C#m A
We won't hear a word they say
E B
They don't know us anyway
F#m
Watch it burn
G#m
Let it die
A B A A/G# (x2)
Cause we are finally free tonight
A
Tonight will change our lives
A/G#
It's so good to be by your side
C#m
But we'll cry
A
We won't give up the fight
E
We'll scream loud at the top of our lungs
B
And they'll think it's just cause we're young
C#m A
And we'll feel so alive
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Chorus:
C#m
Throw it away
A
Forget yesterday
E B
We'll make the great escape
C#m A
We won't hear a word they say
E B
They don't know us anyway
F#m
Watch it burn
G#m
Let it die
A B A A/G# (x2)
Cause we are finally free tonight
A
All of the wasted time
G#m
The hours that were left behind me
F#m
Answers that we'll never find
A B
They don't mean a thing tonight
Adlib: C#m A E B(x2)
Chorus:(Strum once)
C#m
Throw it away
A
Forget yesterday
E B
We'll make the great escape
C#m A
We won't hear a word they say
E B
They don't know us anyway
Chorus:
C#m
Throw it away
A
Forget yesterday
E B
We'll make the great escape
C#m A
We won't hear a word they say
E B
They don't know us anyway
Chorus:
C#m
Throw it away
A
Forget yesterday
E B
We'll make the great escape
C#m A
We won't hear a word they say
E B
They don't know us anyway
F#m
Watch it burn
G#m
Let it die
A B A A/G# (x2)
Cause we are finally free tonight
End with: A A/G# (x3) E
