Bruce Cockburn Pacing The Cage written by Bruce Cockburn
Sunset is an angel weeping
Holding out a bloody sword
No matter how I squint I cannot
Make out what it's pointing toward
Sometimes you feel like you've lived too long
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Days drip slowly on the page
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You catch yourself
Pacing the cage
I've proven who I am so many times
The magnetic strips worn thin
And each time I was someone else
And everyone was taken in
Powers chatter in high places
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Stir up eddies in the dust of rage
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Set me to pacing the cage
I never knew what you all wanted
So I gave you everything
All that I could pillage
All the spells that I could sing
It's as if the thing were written
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In the constitution of the age
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Sooner or later you'll wind up
Pacing the cage
SOLO
Sometimes the best map will not guide you
You can't see what's round the bend
Sometimes the road leads through dark places
Sometimes the darkness is your friend
Today these eyes scan bleached out land
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For the coming of the outbound stage
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Pacing the cage
Pacing the cage
From The Charity Of Night CD 1997
RYKO Records
Golden Mountain Music BMI