Empty Cages Lyrics - Fogelberg Dan

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...