Escape

Songs about someone getting out, or trying to get out of a place.

Bastard Wants To Hit Me
Electric Car - "Way past the dock, way past the sea"
Escape From The Planet Of The Apes
Hall Of Heads - "You can't run away; your feet won't help you run"
I Broke My Own Rule - Deals with the desire for freedom, specifically from responsibility
I'm In A Rut - "I'm in a rut that I don't to be in; I want to break the chains"
The Lady And The Tiger
Monsters Of Mud
No One Knows My Plan
Quit The Circus - According to John Flansburgh, the song could resonate with people who want to escape from their families; specifically, "It's really about a very extreme kind of claustrophobia."
Social Media - "I am free, I am free / I can pretend all day that I'm free"
They Got Lost - "Could you tell us where we are and the best way out of here?"
Token Back To Brooklyn

Arrest The Cigarettes - "I'm going to disappear now / With all the disappearers"
The Bright Side - "Back then, fighting with the permanent / Pushing through the sediment / Till we lost the trail"
Cabbagetown - "But nothing that gets said / gets us out of Cabbagetown"
Christmas In The Big House - "And I'm breaking out / I got plans / Can't you see?"
Fun Assassin - A verse: "Lost in space / Waiting for a bus from this place / And when I get there, I'll just fold up my map / Drop it and never look back"
Hate The Villanelle - "At school, I ran from the very first bell", "But friends have all fled to faraway climes"
My Brother The Ape - "But I don't feel I belong and I keep wanting to escape"
This Microphone - "I'm busting out"
No Stopping A Unicorn - "They've missed the simple fact / That you're not looking back"
Super Cool - "That sweet day I forget it all / And stop searching for the trapdoor"
The Velvet Ape - "The Velvet Ape provides your escape"