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 live 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.