Empty Cages Lyrics - Dan Fogelberg

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. 

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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. 

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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...