This Is Michael Franks

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I’m counting bars like the moon counts tides
Walls so close they scrape my pride
Air tastes stale like forgotten lies
Shadows stretch but the light won’t rise

[Chorus]
In a cage
In a cage
I rage I rage
I claw at the dark but it won’t engage
In a cage
In a cage
No key
No stage
Just echoes of me at every age

[Verse 2]
Steel is silent but it knows my name
Rusty whispers in a wicked game
The floor hums low like a distant blame
Every step’s a circle
Every path the same

[Prechorus]
No one speaks but the air still sneers
No one comes yet I choke on fears
The silence laughs
The silence jeers

[Chorus]
In a cage
In a cage
I rage I rage
I claw at the dark but it won’t engage
In a cage
In a cage
No key
No stage
Just echoes of me at every age

[Bridge]
The cracks in the walls hum a secret tune
A clock with no hands sings of doom
The ceiling drips dreams that I’ll never bloom
A prisoner to time
To a space
To a room

[Bridge]
The  cracks  in  the  walls  hum  a  secret  tune
A  clock  with  no  hands  sings  of  doom
The  ceiling  drips  dreams  that  I’ ll  never  bloom
A  prisoner  to  time
To  a  space
To  a  room

Nightmoves

Michael Franks

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