Empty Cages Lyrics by Dan Fogelberg

Empty Cages Lyrics

    Waiting in the wings
    Your courage sings before you falter . . .
    It's just another way to say
    What's there but never shows

    It's just another day to lay
    Your sins before the altar
    And where it's going to end
    This time around nobody knows.

    Every time it seems that you
    Have gained an understanding
    Those devils at your heels
    Reach up and try to tip the scales

    Waking from a dream
    You see it's all been done without you
    And every vain attempt to make it stay
    Is destined to fail.

    Chorus

    Fury rages through your restless days
    Shades of time that's gone before
    Empty cages where the prisoner plays
    'til the door swings closed behind for evermore . . .
    Evermore...
    Evermore...

    Long before we come of
    Age we yearn to leave the garden
    And wrestle with a myth
    The hand of fate
    Has faintly drawn

    But somewhere on the way
    We feel our hearts begin to harden
    And see just as we learn
    To turn around
    The garden is gone.

    Fury rages through your restless days
    Shades of time that's gone before
    Empty cages where the prisoner plays
    'til the door swings closed
    Behind for evermore . . .

    Evermore...
    Evermore...

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