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Escape Routes (Song Meanings)

Welcome to Creative Connections — where we join the dots between songwriter meanings, across the decades, and spin them into a new narrative.

Today’s episode is Escape Routes: seven songs about getting out. Sometimes that means leaving a place. Sometimes it means leaving a version of yourself. Sometimes it’s fantasy, sometimes reinvention, sometimes running, sometimes returning — and sometimes it’s the moment when escape stops being an idea and becomes a decision.

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