Cockburn Bruce - Pacing The Cage — Bruce Cockburn

E      B           A
Sunset is an angel weeping
E       B            A
Bolding out a bloody sword
E         B              A
No matter how I squint I cannot
E        B         A
Make out what it's pointing toward
A                     B
Sometimes you feel like you've lived too long
C#m       C#m/B         C#m     A Amaj7
Days drip slowly on the page
Amaj 7
You catch yourself

Pacing the cage
E           B                A
I've proven who I am so many times
E            B           A
The magnetic strips worn thin
E             B              A
And each time I was someone else
E         B            A
And everyone was taken in
A              B
Powers chatter in high places
C#m          C#m/B   C#m    A Amaj7
Stir up eddies in the dust of rage
Amaj 7
Set me to pacing the cage
E       B         A
I never knew what you  all wanted
E    B              A
So I gave you everything
E        B       A
All that I could pillage
E       B          A
All the spells that I could sing
A                 B
It's as if the thing were written
C#m        C#m/B           C#m     A Amaj7
In the constitution of the age
Amaj 7
Sooner or later you'll wind up

Pacing the cage

SOLO

E             B              A
Sometimes the best map will not guide you
E         B           A
You can't see what's round the bend
E             B              A
Sometimes the road leads through dark places
E             B                A
Sometimes the darkness is your friend
A            B
Today these eyes scan bleached out land
C#m            C#m/B           C#m    A Amaj7
For the coming of the outbound stage
Amaj 7
Pacing the cage
              E
Pacing the cage

         From The Charity Of Night CD 1997
         RYKO Records
         Golden Mountain Music BMI