Cages and Windows

Danger outside

Safer inside

Got my food, got my toys

Good life of petty joys

And it has always been like this

Since hatching

Lifelong incubation

Domesticated with implied consent

There's room

And a nice view from the roost

Behind the stainless steel bars

There may be cats about

Thank god the door has been closed for me

Hazardous to get out

Better not think about it too much

I'm free as a bird

Free as a bird

In a birdcage, safe and

Free as a bird

Free as a budgie

With clipped wings

Danger outside

Safer inside

Had a chick, was a lovebird

Had some chicks, now retired

And it will always be like this

A chicken-and-egg situation

Who came first?

The pet or the owner?

A whole life spent parroting

Yet not questionning

If bird was the word

There may be cats about

Thank god the door has been closed for me

Hazardous to get out

Better not think about it too much

I'm free as a bird

Free as a bird

In a birdcage, safe and

Free as a bird

Free as a budgie

With clipped wings

Something's not right

Who forgot to close the door?

Who pushes me to explore?

Maybe I should go back to sleep

Maybe I should take a peep

I've never been so high

Eyes of a butterfly

Two wings to fly and lots of things to try

I think I could reach for the sky

What the fuck is this?

A cage without bars, a gate made of glass

Is there ever a way out

Or life's just an inverted nested doll?

I'm torn

Between steel and glass

Confident in a cage

Or free and full of doubts

Just had a blackout

Thank God the door has been closed for good

Hazardous to get out

I had that strange dream again

The world was a room full of birds trapped between

Cages and windows

It's all about cages and windows

Two side of the same coin

Cages and windows

Ignorance or vertigo

Cages and windows

Either way you're fucked

Cages and Windows

It's all about cages and windows

Cages and windows

It's all about cages and windows

We're fucked