A Bigger Cage Is Still A Prison Chords

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

Verses

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?

Chorus

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

Outro

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