Cage The Song Lyrics - Oh My God Charlie Darwin - The Low Anthem

God cage the songbird 

Before the feathers run brown 

God bar the windows 

That we may though hollow be sound 

And this island shall be shackled to her waters 

Here we vow never to change 

Here we will stand at last for something 

With no desire to pretend 

Send up our prayers to gilded idols 

Their names etched in heartwood of palm 

And scatter the ashes of the contracts 

Their freedom so hollow a song 

God cage the songbird 

Before the feathers run brown 

God bar the windows 

That we may though hollow be sound 

Now the street lamp will be tethered to her station 

As the poor man is tethered to the flesh 

The wise man will be tethered to his wisdom 

As the mother is tethered to her creche 

Was your hunger your awareness of salvation 

As your chances go slipping to the past 

You're tortured by the changing of the seasons 

And each grain of sand in the glass 

God cage the songbird 

Before the feathers run brown 

God bar the windows 

That we may though hollow be sound