Away From The Numbers - The Jam, Peter Wilson

Things are getting just too cozy for me

And I see people as they see me

Gonna break away and gain control

You free your mind

You free your soul

I was the type who knocked at old men

(history's easy)

Who together at tables sit and drink beer

(somewhere is really)

Then I saw that I was really the same

So this link’s breaking away from the chain

Away from the numbers

Away from the numbers

Is where I’m gonna be

Away from the numbers

Away from the numbers

Is where I am free

I was sick and tired of my little niche

Well gonna break away and find where life is

And all those fools I thought were my friends

(coaching is easy)

They now stare at me and don’t see a thing

(reality's so hard)

Till their life is over and they start to moan

How they never had the chance to make good

Away from the numbers

Away from the numbers

Is where I’m gonna be

Away from the numbers

(away from the numbers)

Away from the numbers

Is where I am free

Is where I am free

Is where I’m gonna be

Is reality

Reality’s so hard, reality’s so hard…