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Subject: c/cockburn_bruce/pacing_the_cage.crd
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 00:29:28 GMT
From: pgfn95a@prodigy.com

Bruce Cockburn   Pacing The Cage  written by Bruce Cockburn


E (022100@1)    B (x2444x@1)         ASunset (x02220@1)is an angel weeping
E (022100@1)     B (x2444x@1)          AHolding (x02220@1)out a bloody sword
E (022100@1)       B (x2444x@1)            ANo (x02220@1)matter how I squint I cannot
E (022100@1)      B (x2444x@1)                AMake (x02220@1)out what it's pointing toward
A (x02220@1)                            BSometimes (x2444x@1)you feel like you've lived too long
C#m (x13321@4)     C#m/B         C#m (x13321@4)   AAmaj7
Days drip slowly on the page
Amaj 7
You catch yourself

Pacing the cage
E (022100@1)         B (x2444x@1)              AI've (x02220@1)proven who I am so many times
E (022100@1)          B (x2444x@1)         AThe (x02220@1)magnetic strips worn thin
E (022100@1)           B (x2444x@1)            AAnd (x02220@1)each time I was someone else
E (022100@1)       B (x2444x@1)          AAnd (x02220@1)everyone was taken in
A (x02220@1)                     BPowers (x2444x@1)chatter in high places
C#m (x13321@4)                 C#m/B   C#m (x13321@4)  AAmaj7
Stir up eddies in the dust of rage
Amaj 7
Set me to pacing the cage
E (022100@1)     B (x2444x@1)                AI (x02220@1)never knew what you  all wanted
E (022100@1)  B (x2444x@1)            ASo (x02220@1)I gave you everything
E (022100@1)      B (x2444x@1)     AAll (x02220@1)that I could pillage
E (022100@1)     B (x2444x@1)                 AAll (x02220@1)the spells that I could sing
A (x02220@1)                        BIt's (x2444x@1)as if the thing were written
C#m (x13321@4)      C#m/B           C#m (x13321@4)   AAmaj7
In the constitution of the age
Amaj 7
Sooner or later you'll wind up

Pacing the cage

SOLO

E (022100@1)           B (x2444x@1)                     ASometimes (x02220@1)the best map will not guide you
E (022100@1)       B (x2444x@1)                  AYou (x02220@1)can't see what's round the bend
E (022100@1)           B (x2444x@1)                     ASometimes (x02220@1)the road leads through dark places
E (022100@1)           B (x2444x@1)              ASometimes (x02220@1)the darkness is your friend
A (x02220@1)                   BToday (x2444x@1)these eyes scan bleached out land
C#m (x13321@4)          C#m/B           C#m (x13321@4)  AAmaj7
For the coming of the outbound stage
Amaj 7
Pacing the cage
                       EPacing (022100@1)the cage

         From The Charity Of Night CD 1997
         RYKO Records
         Golden Mountain Music BMI