Empty Cages

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

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