Pacing The Cage Chords
Pacing The Cage by Jimmy Buffett is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G/B, Am, F and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Capo III Fret
Intro
(C) Sunset (G/B) is an angel (Am) weeping
(C) Holding (G/B) out a bloody (Am) sword
(C) No matter (G/B) how I squint I (Am) cannot
(C) Make out (G/B) what it's pointing (Am) toward
(F) Sometimes you feel like you've (G) lived too long
The (Am) days drip slowly on the page
(F) And you catch yourself (G)
Pacing the (F) cage
(C) I've proved who (G/B) I am so many (Am) times
(C) The mag(G/B)netic strip's worn (Am) thin
(C) And each (G/B) time I was someone (Am) else
(C) And every(G/B)one was taken (Am) in
(F) Powers chatter in high (G) places
Stir up (Am) eddies in the dust of rage
(F) (G) Set me to pacing the (F) cage
(C) I never (G/B) knew what you all (Am) wanted
(C) So I (G/B) gave you every(Am)thing
(C) All that (G/B) I could (Am) pillage
(C) All the (G/B) spells that I could (Am) sing
(F) It's as if the thing were (G) written
In the (Am) constitution of the age
(F) Sooner or later (G) you'll wind up
Pacing the (F) cage
Solo
(C) Sometimes the (G/B) best map will not (Am) guide you
(C) You can't (G/B) see what's round the (Am) bend
(C) Sometimes the (G/B) road leads through dark (Am) places
(C) Sometimes the (G/B) darkness is your (Am) friend
(F) Today these eyes scan (G) bleached-out land
For the (Am) coming of the outbound stage
(F) (G)
Pacing the (F) cage
Fade out