ELTON JOHN - Cage The Songbird lyrics

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Music by elton john and davey johnstone<br>Lyrics by bernie taupin<br>Available on the album blue moves<br><br>Sober in the morning light<br>Things look so much different<br>To how they looked last night<br>A pale face pressed to an unmade bed<br>Like flags of many nations flying high above her head<br><br>The cellophane still on the flowers<br>The telegram still in her hand<br>As whispers circulate all day<br>Their back-stage baby princess passed away<br><br>And you can cage the songbird<br>But you can't make her sing<br>And you can trap the free bird<br>But you'll have to clip her wings<br>`cause she'll soar like a hawk when she flies<br>But she'll dive like an eagle when she dies<br><br>Promises of no more lies<br>Fell flat upon an empty stage<br>Before the audience arrived<br>A return in time to the cheaper seats<br>She never knew what lay beneath<br>Just a dated handbill they found between the sheets<br><br>Let down before the final curtain<br>A shallow heart that left her cold<br>She left in rouge upon the mirror<br>A circled kiss to the faithful who'd miss her