Out of Here

Out of Here

I figured out what I did, 

Made 'em think I'm outa my mind

I really had 'em fooled

but I'll cop to a foolish thing 

didn't realize what happens

when you pull a con

and they assume you're crazy

'cause they want you gone

they say I'm dangerous

I say I'm out here by winter

When I do get out of here

gonna take 'em all to dinner

and we can talk about it

how the system really works

getting you to act like someone else

making you act like a jerk

I knew I was fakin' it

and they were taught how to see me

so I chose to act the part

pretending like I'm nuts and in the 

nut house it can drive you crazy 

it eventually got to me

I was having doubts

maybe they're right 

maybe I am flipped out

maybe all the drugs they givin' me

I be one of their zombies

for them it's just laying track

Lord hang me onto my dream 

I'm never coming back

 

    I got to get out of here

    I feel the pressure on

    and it's confusing me

    I been coughing all night

    When I get out of here

    gonna get me a brand new face

    brand new identity

    Nobody they'd recognize 

    I can't be classified

    I won't be filed away

    or forgotten easily

    I'm going to start again

    when I get out

    get out out of here

 

They look at me and say I'm big

don't see how tiny I am 

say I'm 'bout 7 foot tall

make me stand like a statue

right now I'm the size of a suitcase

I'ma shrink back down some more

to the size of a cockroach 

where I can crawl 

through a crack in a wall

they'll never realize I'm gone

s'how I'm gonna get outa here

'til then I c'n bide my time

'til then I c'n sweep the floor

waiting for the lights t'go out

turn into a tiny bug

and I do my vanishing act

climbing out through the cracks in the corners

when I get out of here

gonna go way far away

I'm gonna get so big

when I am standing free

As big as a mountain

As tall as a redwood tree

And I can be the man 

that I was meant to be

as big as I wanna be

 big as I wanna be

 big as I wanna be

 

    when I get out of here

    going to go right straight back

    to my angel emily

    who wouldn't come out of her house

    or even talk to me

    just leave me alone she said

    can't get her outa my mind

    or keep away from her

    that's why they locked me up

    put me here in a rubber room

    where I'm bouncing off the walls

    trying to rip this jacket off

    like Samson pulled down the temple 

    I'm gonna vaporize these walls

    go back to the woman I love

    make her love me again I will

    make her do what I want I will

    my head's in a plaster cast

    pressure pumpin' in my brain

    pills messin' up in my mind 

    ain't down with prison time

    I'm done with this place forever

    ain't gonna come back no never

 

    ain't never come here again

    ain't never come here again

    ain't never come here again

 

I been away a long time

I been away a long time

I been away a long time

 

    ain't never come here again

    ain't never come here again

    ain't never come here again

 

I been away a long time

I been away a long time

I been away a long time

I been away a long time

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