Breakaway Lyrics

She's spent a lifetime in this one horse town

Slowly dying since the mill closed down

There's something out there past a city limit sign

The mysteries concealed just beyond the county line

A beat up cardboard box contains the sum of eighteen years

The screen door's final slam leaves its ringing in her ears

She climbs behind the wheel of that old car in the drive

It stutters groans and mumbles as the engine roars to life

Break away, oh spread your wings and fly

Break away and leave this town behind

You'll find your place and I know you'll do just fine

But it's time to break away, it's time to break away and start a brand new life

The tires on the asphalt sing their melancholy song

She crosses the horizon and she knows she's really gone

Inside she knows she's not the first to face the world out there

But so many didn't make it, they all ended up back here

Break away, oh spread your wings and fly

Break away and leave this town behind

You'll find your place and I know you'll do just fine

But it's time to break away, to break away and start a brand new life

And I know your feelings are a mix of love and hate

The tangled up emotions that you can't quite separate

In time the sharp wounds soften down into a faded scar

The places that we come from helps to make us who we are

Break away, oh spread your wings and fly

Break away, and leave this town behind

You'll find your place and I know you'll do just fine

But it's time to break away, to break away and start a brand new life