| As long as I remember I’ve been learning to escape | 
| I lock myself in places, situations I can’t change | 
| I feel older than my age is, they say I’m too young to know | 
| Tomorrow’s my 10th birthday, I’ll take my BMX and go | 
| I’ll be a master of illusion, and live by the honor code | 
| I’ll do my work in private and I’ll keep my secrets close | 
| I’m sick of all the grownups, and how everybody lies | 
| Don’t ever under-estimate a kid with seven lives | 
| Break away like Houdini | 
| While there’s still some mystery | 
| Tomorrow you won’t see me | 
| By the time you find this tape | 
| I’ll have made my great escape | 
| They put me in these boxes, with too many locks to pick | 
| Running out of breath is how I lost life number six | 
| But I know I’m getting better, I’ll do anything to survive | 
| And I think I kind of like life number five | 
| Break away like Houdini | 
| While there’s still some mystery | 
| Tomorrow you won’t see me | 
| By the time you find this tape | 
| I’ll have made my great escape | 
| I’m out here on my own now, with no family or friends | 
| Chains I can get out of, it’s love I don’t understand | 
| I guess there’s only so much escaping you can do | 
| And just like that I burned lives four to two | 
| Break away like Houdini | 
| While there’s still some mystery | 
| Tomorrow you won’t see me | 
| By the time you find this tape | 
| I’ll have made my great escape | 
| I’m older now and wondering why I wanted to get out | 
| So I found that tape and listened to me say the | 
| Words out loud | 
| I’m sure I can’t remember what I kept running to | 
| What I made them think was magic wasn’t true | 
| Break away like Houdini | 
| While there’s still some mystery | 
| Tomorrow you won’t see me | 
| By the time you find this tape | 
| I’ll have made my great escape | 
| So gone is all the glamour, the crowds, the mystery | 
| For my final trick I’ll tell you how life up here looks to me | 
| Even someone like Houdini never really got away | 
| I guess I’m outta lives now, I wish I cherished every day | 
| When you only have one life, you better cherish every day |