Escape Routes (Song Meanings)

Welcome to Creative Connections — where we join the dots between songwriter meanings, across the decades, and spin them into a new narrative.

Today’s episode is Escape Routes: seven songs about getting out. Sometimes that means leaving a place. Sometimes it means leaving a version of yourself. Sometimes it’s fantasy, sometimes reinvention, sometimes running, sometimes returning — and sometimes it’s the moment when escape stops being an idea and becomes a decision.

Watch the full music-in-sequence video version of this podcast including the seven songs at: https://unmask.us/creative-connections/escape-routes/.

Individual Song Links on YouTube:

• Def Leppard - Photograph
• Billy Joel - Piano Man
• Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
• Leonard Cohen - Bird on a Wire
• Ben Watt - Hendra
• Patti Smith Group - Citizen Ship
• 30 Seconds to Mars - Up In The Air

 

You can watch all of our Creative Connections episodes on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CreativeConXPod