Sleeping at Last – Birdcage Religion (Guitar)

    E          B
So slowly I'm losing

    G#m       E
who I've sworn to be.

    E          B
a promise in pencil

    G#m                  E
that years have made so hard to read.

    E                     B
I've spent my life building walls

    G#m                  E
brick by brick and bruise by bruise...

    E          B          G#m       F#
a birdcage religion that whispered me to sleep.

    E          B
but time is spinning silk

    G#m       E
that coils ruthlessly;

    E          B
with the devil's patience,

    G#m       E
it binds my hands so quietly

    F#                 E     F#
that soon it becomes a part of me.

    E          B             G#m           E
so soften these edges and straighten out my tie.

    E          B
and help me remember

    G#m                   E
the hope that I have compromised.

    F#                E       F#
please be a broken record for me.