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