Bad new breaking through my radio

Stocks up and down like dominos

Optimism is running low

I don't need to hear it again



Finders point to the left and right

Kingpins lying through there pearly whites

Scandals cutting like a rusty knife

In a battle that never ends



Well I've seen enough of this puppet show

Now it's time for me to go



I'm gonna drive away

And leave my worries in the dust

Been in last place of this rat race for long enough

I'm gonna drive away

I'm gonna push that pedal down

So if you're looking for me, I won't be around

I'm gonna drive away



Office cutbacks are getting rough

Gossip's spilling out the water cups

And I don't know who I can trust

It's getting harder all the time



Pressure's building in my head

I'm caught in some kind of web

But I'll prove that my dreams ain't dead

Once I see that highway sign



Cause I'm gonna drive away

And leave my worries in the dust

Been in last place of this rat race for long enough

I'm gonna drive away

I'm gonna push that pedal down

So if you're looking for me, I won't be around

I'm gonna drive away



I'm not asking you to follow

Not telling anyone to change

Not trying to start a revolution

But I must be on my way

Yeah, yeah



I'm gonna drive away

And leave my worries in the dust

Been in last place of this rat race for long enough

I'm gonna drive away

I'm gonna push that pedal down

So if you're looking for me, I won't be around

I'm gonna drive away



I'm gonna drive away

I don't need a map to break out of this trap

I'll let the open road show me where to go

I'll be MIA, when I'm out of this maze

I'll leave it all behind me, gonna drive away



Words and Music by Michael Cavanaugh 2017