Away From The Numbers

by The Jam

From the album: Snap!

Track 2 of 33 on Snap! (1983).

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Lyrics for Away From The Numbers

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...

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  4. The Modern World
  5. News Of The World
  6. Billy Hunt
  7. English Rose
  8. Mr. Clean
  9. David Watts
  10. "A" Bomb In Wardour Street
  11. Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
  12. Strange Town
  13. The Butterfly Collector
  14. When You're Young
  15. Smithers-Jones
  16. Thick As Thieves
  17. The Eton Rifles
  18. Going Underground
  19. Dreams Of Children
  20. That's Entertainment
  21. Start!
  22. Man In The Corner Shop
  23. Funeral Pyre
  24. Absolute Beginners
  25. Tales From The Riverbank
  26. Town Called Malice
  27. Precious
  28. The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow)
  29. Beat Surrender
  30. Move On Up
  31. Get Yourself Together
  32. The Great Depression
  33. But I'm Different Now