You were such a newbie on the street
Till you got it all ripped off by a tool
Now walk with a dagger in your meat
And nobody can play you for a fool
Me, I thought I could be a friend to Eddie
But I didn’t know he could be so hard
Now I have to give up everything I own
Just to get back to where I had to start
If we can get each other’s backs, love
Then we can both find a way of escaping
Don’t tell me that there really is no hope
We’ll be free someday
I will shoot my way out of this awful place
If you come too then we can get away
I will cut a passage through all the blood and gut
Over the wall another day
the great escape
the great escape
let's make
the great escape
I swear to you we won’t give up without a fight
There’s a light down at the end of the night
All it takes is just the will to get up a head of steam and go
Come with me there is a way I know
You have got the courage of a rat
Face-to-face in the corner with a cat
If they’re not going to let us out the door
We are not going down without a war
You know I‘d die for you!
Now’s the time to bet it all on just one last single chance
Time to make it through our own deliverance
We are stronger when together and we are so much more
Show them what freedom is for
And if we jump we might escape before they even can tell
Tell the slavers that they can all go to Hell
It’s you and me against the world with nothing but our own hearts
They can’t break our souls apart
the great escape
the great escape
let's make
the great escape