2026-02-15 (last edited 2026-03-02)
A Bigger Cage Is Still A Prison is a song by Cistem Failure (Bandcamp). I was learning it on the guitar today based off the chords someone put on Ultimate Guitar. Unfortunately, these chords are wrong in minor but annoying ways, so here’s a corrected version. I’m not 100% sure this is completely correct for the interlude, but it’s good enough.
Edit: My friend danso pointed out some errors in my chords. Thanks to them for helping me fix it. Also, there’s another version on Ultimate Guitar which is correct. Oops.
If a line is four bars, then each chord is played for a bar. Play the A chords however you want.
Song structure: IVVC IVC IVCO
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skip 2 meas. after chorus |
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last line slow |
- From the window I see the mountains
- They roll like tidal waves across the horizon
- The rain cascades down, like lava it consumes
- everything on its journey to the bottom
- From the window I hear the aching groaning wind
- It forces its way through the cracks onto my skin
- I long to climb out, to be swept up in its wrath
- But I can’t break through the bars that keep me in
- The trees form a secret green embrace
- Their arms beckoning to swallow me whole
- I want to climb over these rooftops and over these fences
- And escape to the places none of these guards would go
- Sitting here I prepare myself for the future
- When instead of one month I could be here for years
- Would I lose hope, would I take my life
- Or would we find a way to break ourselves out of here?
- There’s nothing I want more than to sleep under the night sky
- Hear the animals as they go about their lives
- Feel a fire warm my body, feel the mud under my toes
- But tonight this cell keeps me enclosed
- For if we don’t have our freedom, if we are captured by their iron hands
- Then the vision for fire it burns so much more bright
- There’s no justice in this system—a bigger cage is still a prison
- Well I hope that somewhere someone breaks free tonight