Pacing The Cage

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
 Days drip slowly on the page
 You catch yourself
 Pacing the cage
 I've proven who I am so many times
 The magnetic strip's worn thin
 And each time I was someone else
 And every one was taken in
 Hours chatter in high places
 Stir up eddies in the dust of rage
 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
 In the constitution of the age
 Sooner or later you'll wind up
 Pacing the cage
 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
 For the coming of the outbound stage.
 Pacing the cage.
 Pacing the cage.