Lyrics to
The Cage

This version of The Cage was released by Elton John in 1970.

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Have you ever lived in a cage
Where you live to be whipped and be tamed
For I’ve never loved in a cage
Or talked to a friend or just waved

Well I walk while they talk about virtue
Just raised on my back legs and snarled
Watched you kiss your old daddy with passion
And tell dirty jokes as he died

But I’m damned when I really care there
For the cellar’s the room in your lives
Where you lace yourself with bad whiskey
And close the cage doors on your life

Well I pray while you bathe in bad water
Sing songs that I learnt as a boy
Then breaks all the bones in my body
On the bars you can never destroy

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The lyrics for The Cage are defined as the words making up the song released by Elton John in 1970. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to The Cage have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Elton John and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to The Cage by Elton John if you think through it. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to The Cage" means the words set to the music of The Cage, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Elton John. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to The Cage and the lyrics to The Cage are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Elton John who came here looking just for the lyrics to The Cage, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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