Midnight finds me cryin'   Day time finds me cryin' too   I've got to get out of town   This whole city just brings me down, yeah      Gotta get away   Gotta get away   Gotta get away      I made a promise to you such a long time ago   Now baby, now baby, now baby, now baby   It's time to make it come true yeah, come through yeah   Come true yeah, come through yeah, come true yeah      In this dirty old part of the city   Where the sun refuse to shine   People tell me there ain't no use in me trying, no   Little girl you're so young and you're so pretty   And one thing I know is true   Your going to be dead before your time is due      See my daddy in bed dying   Watched his hair been turning gray   I know he's been working and slaving   Working and slaving, slaving and working   Working, yeah   Work, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah      We gotta get out of this place   If it's the last thing we ever do   We gotta get out of this place, there's a better life   Don't you know, don't you know   Man, don't you know, don't you know, don't you know      Well, well, well   Time brings about a change   Time on the clock, on the wall   Brings about a change, yeah   All of his life he's been slaving   All of the life he's been working      For what? For what?   For what? For what?   Give it up, give it up   Give it up, give it up, yeah      See my daddy in bed dying   Watched his hair been turning gray   I know he's been working and slaving   And slaving and working, and working and slaving   Working, yeah   Work, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah      We gotta get out of this place   If it's the last thing we ever do   We gotta get out of this place   There's a better life   Don't you know, don't you know, don't you know      Take me, take me, take me      We gotta get out of this place   If it's the last thing we ever do   We just gotta get out of this place   There's a better life, there's a better world   There's a better way   Don't you know, don't you know, don't you know      We gotta get out of this place   If it's the last thing we ever do   We gotta get out of this place   There's a better world   Don't you know, don't you know, don't you know   I want to get you out of this place      Out of this place   Out of this place   Yeah, yeah, yeah