The Spotlight and the Cage
You don’t know me now
I made it out somehow, I cut
myself from who I was when I
was always in your gaze
She’d dance and she would hide
She’d hold you like the tide, she’d try
try to wash you of your sorrow,
Try to carry all the weight
And oh, I know she
had to go, but I
miss the self that I thought I could be in your gaze
In the spotlight and the cage
We talk about the rage
The cities set ablaze, you tell me
not to get caught up,
that I can never end the hate
If I learn anything
from years of listening to you,
I won’t keep helping someone
who mistakes their fear for fate
And oh, I know I
had to go, ‘cause I
missed the self that I never could see in your gaze
in the spotlight and the cage
I don’t know me now,
the script I write without you,
how could I cut out the part of me
that would not let you down,
while it dragged me to the ground
And oh, I know she
had to go, but I
miss the self I could finally see in your gaze
I miss the spotlight and the cage