I want to play truant from this Want to give it a miss and go down by the lake Take off my kit and go in for a dip I want to give this night the slip.
Disappear without trace and just in case the night does have eyes want to change my appearance don't want to be caught by surprise.
I shall dive in thrive in the cold ink black. Float on my back breast stroke butterfly looking at the night sky Can't think why I would want any more but to skip in and out Along the long lake shore.
I want to play truant from this want to kiss goodbye to today, bring on the night
I know why my ears ache and my chest feels tight.
I'm being restricted constricted crushed by the rush of the daily plough to the office and shop I wonder how they can live.
Give me my lake and the take that I have on this fight Give me my lake in the night Give me a minute to make my escape The truant can't take any more.