I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.
[writing to Stirling in 1740]. . . an unlucky accident happened to some of the French mathematicians in Peru. It seems that they were shewing French gallantry to the natives' wives, who have murdered their servants destroyed their instruments and burnt their papers, the Gentlemen escaping narrowly themselves. What an ugly article this will make in a journal.
Games are a way of escaping reality - that's why you need heroic factor.
I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.
Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.
The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.
Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.
There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear enough.
We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate.
What polluters do is raise the standards of living for themselves, while lowering the quality of living for everybody else, and they do that by escaping the disciplines of the free market.
We all share one planet and are one hummanity, there is no escaping this reality.
There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.
But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c. , willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare could make everything poetical; he tells us of poor Tom's haunts among "sheep cotes and mills. " As long as I do paint, I shall never cease to paint such places. They have always been my delight.
"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor can it reasonably be presumed that the restoration of British freedom was exempt from tumult and faction. The pre-eminence of birth and fortune must have been frequently violated by bold and popular citizens; and the haughty nobles, who complained that they were become the subjects of their own servants, would sometimes regret the reign of an arbitrary monarch.
Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.
Miles is. . . Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.
I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings.
When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.