Pacing The Cage — текст песни (Jimmy Buffett)

By: bruce cockburn



Sunset is an angel weeping

Holding out a bloody sword

No matter how I squint I cannot

Make out what its pointing toward

Sometimes you feel like youve lived too long

Days drip slowly on the page

And you catch yourself

Pacing the cage



Ive 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

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

Its as if the thing were written

In the constitution of the age

Sooner or later youll wind up

Pacing the cage



Sometimes the best map will not guide you

You cant see whats 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