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Gotta Get Away From This Town

In a town where the only things to do Are to get jailed or killed I spent the days of my youth Watching my peers have fun Dead end Something's gotta bend Here in Nowhere Space, MD With drug fueled children Raised by bigoted thieves I've gotta get out of this town today Just like hell and high water We're soaked in gasoline All it needs is a spark to set it off And bring the whole place down Dead end Something's gotta bend Here in Empty Space, NJ With bibles a-thumping And my generation stoned I've gotta get out of this town today I'm leaving home behind me My story's half engraved I know it'll end one day Just don't know the date But it doesn't matter much to me If I come crashing down Just as long as I'm buried Somewhere other than this town Dead end Something's gotta bend Here in Hope's Tombstone, DC Where crime's what it takes to Make it forward in life I've gotta get out of this town today

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