Late last night

She heard him pounding

On her screen door

He was breathless in the rain

He said "darling

It’s a town of losers

Where the winners don’t last long

If I stay I know I’m done"

He said "I can’t take it no more

Gotta breakout here tonight

I can’t take it no more

Gotta breakout here tonight"

She’s sleeping easy

In her seat

Of rexine leatherette

He lights up a cigarette

The flash of headlights

The blur of signs

As a rusty blood sun rises

In a desert morning sky

He said, ‘‘I can’t take it no more

Gotta breakout here tonight

I can’t take it no more

Gotta breakout here tonight’’

Woah-woah

Woah-woah

Woah-woah

Woah-woah

Streets lined with methadone stares

Gunshots and sirens fill the cold night air

Same scene that they’ve known so long

You want out but you’re dragged in when you’re young

You’re chewed up and you’re spat straight out

‘round here they’ll only bring you down

They'll bring you down

So breakout

Ohhh

Breakout, breakout, break-break, breakout

Breakout, breakout, yeah, gotta breakout

Breakout, breakout, break-break, breakout

Breakout, breakout, yeah, gotta breakout

He said, ‘‘I can’t take it no more

Gotta breakout here tonight

I can’t take it no more

Gotta breakout here tonight’’

We’ll hold to tomorrow

Leave behind your sorrow

There’s something better waiting up ahead

Forget your doubts

And darling let's breakout of here

Tonight

Woah-woah

Woah-woah

Woah-woah

Woah-woah