Jimmy Buffett – Pacing The Cage (Guitar)

Capo 3
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Chords

from "Beachhouse on the Moon" [Intro] C G/B F2/A C G/B F2/A [Verse 1]
C        G/B         F2/A
  Sunset is an angel weeping

C          G/B          F2/A
  Holding out a bloody sword

C           G/B            F2/A
  No matter how I squint I cannot

C          G/B                 F2/A
  Make out what it's pointing toward
[Chorus]
F                                G
  Sometimes you feel like you've lived too long

    Am
The days drip slowly on the page

F
  And you catch yourself

G             F    G
  Pacing the cage
[Verse 2]
C                   G/B        F2/A
  I've proved who I am so many times

C         G/B              F2/A
  The magnetic strips worn thin

C          G/B               F2/A
  And each time I was someone else

C          G/B           F2/A
  And everyone was taken in
[Chorus]
F                        G
  Powers chatter in high places

        Am
Stir up eddies in the dust of rage
F G
F                      G
 Set me to pacing the cage
[Verse 3]
C          G/B                F2/A
   I never knew what you  all wanted

C      G/B           F2/A
  So I gave you everything

C           G/B     F2/A
   All that I could pillage

C         G/B                 F2/A
  All the spells that I could sing
[Chorus]
F                           G
  It's as if the thing were written

       Am
In the constitution of the age

F
  Sooner or later

G                              F      G
    you'll wind up Pacing the cage
[Solo] C G/B F2/A C Em F2/A C Em F2/A C Em F2/A [Verse 4]
C               G/B               F2/A
  Sometimes the best map will not guide you

C           G/B                  F2/A
  You can't see what's round the bend

C               G/B                     F2/A
  Sometimes the road leads through dark places

C               G/B              F2/A
  Sometimes the darkness is your friend
[Chorus]
F                       G
  Today these eyes scan bleached out land

        Am
For the coming of the outbound stage

F    G              F
        Pacing the cage

F    G              F
        Pacing the cage

F    G              F
        Pacing the cage
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