[ti:Pacing The Cage]
[ar:Bruce Cockburn]
[al:105.5 Triple M - Live From Studio M Vol. 1]
[00:13.67]Sunset is an angel weeping
[00:20.09]Holding out a bloody sword
[00:26.76]No matter how I squint I cannot
[00:32.81]Make out what it's pointing toward
[00:38.88]Sometimes you feel like you've lived too long
[00:44.83]The days drip slowly on the page
[00:53.51]And you catch yourself
[00:56.89]Pacing the cage
[01:04.42]I've proved who I am so many times,
[01:09.39]The magnetic strip's worn thin
[01:17.09]And each time I was someone else
[01:23.63]And everyone was taken in.
[01:29.95]Powers chatter in high places
[01:35.12]Stir up eddies in the dust of rage
[01:47.04]Set me to pacing the cage.
[01:55.55]I never knew what you all wanted
[02:01.50]So I gave you everything.
[02:07.86]All that I could pillage
[02:14.13]All the spells that I could sing
[02:20.70]It's as if the thing were written
[02:25.72]In the constitution of the age
[02:34.43]Sooner or later you'll wind up Pacing the cage
[03:11.20]Sometimes the best map will not guide you
[03:17.78]You can't see what's round the bend.
[03:23.75]Sometimes the road leads through dark places
[03:30.21]Sometimes the darkness is your friend.
[03:36.55]Today these eyes scan bleached-out land,
[03:42.11]For the coming of the outbound stage
[03:55.48]Pacing the cage
[04:08.05]Pacing the cage...