Nick Chiodras - Caged Lyrics

Do you believe in me?
All matter coalesce under your hand
And can you hear the plea
Of a hundred voices if they're not like yours?

A mother's crying for her child
Unknown and stranded in the wild
I watch your fingers curling into a fist

Do you feel for the stars
When you still can't find your pulse
Like you're somebody else?
Forget and pretend
Like it's all ending soon

It's a tale as old as time
You get what's yours and I'll get mine
Collecting on eternity like a prize

I'm rattling the bars of my enclosure
My heart can't take a beat until it's over
I'm resolute again
I try, never learn
But I can't forget the words

Do you believe in me? (Do you believe in me?)
All life diminishing under your gaze
And now you pray me kneel (and now you pray me kneel)
As the author of your reality

I think I've seen this thing before
And chose to leave it at your door
And I can't stand to bow
My face to the floor

He can name all the stars
But he still can't see your face
And that's a losing game
I try, never learn
But I can't forget the word

I've never wept this way before
I'm not a person anymore
Decaying like an animal in the sun

I'm rattling the bars of my enclosure
My heart can't take a beat until it's over
I'm resolute again
I try, never learn
But I can't forget the word

Let it go
Someone told me
To let it go
But I can't let it pass over me
Like water in fiery sea
I'd be lying if I said it wasn't calm
Four walls a ceiling and a door
But something in me knows it's wrong
(But is that enough? It's adding up)
It's all made of metal bars