Sunset is an angel weeping
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Holding out a bloody sword
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No matter how I squint I cannot
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Make out what it's pointing toward
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Sometimes you feel like you've lived too long
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The days drip slowly on the page
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And you catch yourself
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Pacing the cage
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I've proved who I am so many times,
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The magnetic strip's worn thin
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And each time I was someone else
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And everyone was taken in.
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Powers chatter in high places
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Stir up eddies in the dust of rage
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Set me to pacing the cage.
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I never knew what you all wanted
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So I gave you everything.
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All that I could pillage
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All the spells that I could sing
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It's as if the thing were written
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In the constitution of the age
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Sooner or later you'll wind up
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Pacing the cage
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Sometimes the best map will not guide you
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You can't see what's round the bend.
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Sometimes the road leads through dark places
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Sometimes the darkness is your friend.
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Today these eyes scan bleached-out land,
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For the coming of the outbound stage
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Pacing the cage...
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Pacing The Cage
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Jimmy Buffett |