Get Out Alive

Album: One-X (2006)
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  • "No time for goodbye", he said
    As he faded away
    Don't put your life in someone's hands
    They're bound to steal it away
    Don't hide your mistakes
    'Cause they'll find you, burn you
    Then he said

    If you wanna get out alive
    Oh, run for your life
    If you wanna get out alive
    Oh, run for your life

    "This is my last time", she said
    As she faded away
    It's hard to imagine
    But one day, you'll end up like me
    Then she said

    If you wanna get out alive
    Oh, run for your life
    If you wanna get out alive
    Oh, run for your life
    If you wanna get out alive (if you wanna get out alive)
    Oh, run for your life (life)
    If you wanna get out alive (if you wanna get out alive)
    Oh, run for your life

    If I stay, it won't be long
    Till I'm burning on the inside
    If I go, I can only hope
    That I'll make it to the other side

    If you wanna get out alive
    Oh, run for your life
    If you wanna get out alive
    Hold on for-

    If you wanna get out alive (if you wanna get out alive)
    Oh, run for your life
    If you wanna get out alive (if you wanna get out alive)
    Oh, run for-

    If I stay, it won't be long
    Till I'm burning on the inside
    If I go, I can only hope
    That I'll make it to the other side
    If I stay, it won't be long
    Till I'm burning on the inside
    If I go, and if I go

    Burning on the inside
    Burning on the inside
    Burning on the inside Writer/s: Adam Gontier, Barry Stock, Brad Walst, Neil Sanderson
    Publisher: Audiam, Inc., HYVETOWN MUSIC INC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

  • Yesman from WhistlerFriday the 13th
  • Morgan from KsI take it completely differently than most people it's about addiction but my addiction was sin and I listen to it as I turned away from sin but sin is an addiction that's hard to break away from you have to turn away from sin to get out alive don't hide your mistakes they'll burn you have confess to your sins ask for forgiveness
  • Gouch from NaNot technically true, it's about him telling people to not do drugs and stay away from it, and that he kept doing a certain drug and a good thing that he stopped.

    Their songs are mainly related to drugs, painkiller, pain, animal I have become, some that might be related, own my own, never too late and of course get out alive is about drugs.
  • AnonymousMaybe being with someone who causes you pain but not willing to take the chance of leaving and potentially being in more pain without them.
  • Christina from Marlton, NjPretty sure it's about getting away from drugs before you waste away....
    and Adam(lead singer) Was addicted to drugs
  • Roach from Nowhere, GermanyI don't think that 'he' says that to 'her'. I think the story of the song is that persons die around the protagonist and they warn him and tell him to run, because if he doesn't he will die, too. They will find him, burn him. So he has to run for his life. But coeval he doesn't want to leave this place. So he knows that he will die if he doesn't leave, but he doesn't want to. That all is a metaphor for the fear Adam felt when he knew that the drugs would kill him if he doesn't stop.
  • Corey from Richmond, VaLove this song!
  • Jamie from Carlisle, United KingdomI think it could be about his escape from drugs and the addication he had to a painkiller. Perhaps stating that the addiction would have killed him if he hadn't have ran for his life.
  • Ron from Mount Holly, NjThe fact that he says "This is my last time as he/she faded away" makes me think it's about drugs which i think a lot of the One-X songs are about along with his father but the way he words every one of the songs you can really relate them to anything from drugs, family and relationships.
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