A Caged Bird

Intro:

(Sigh)

I’m trapped (pause)

And I can’t

(Pause) break… free

(Slight cry)

**(Verse 1)**

In a cage of iron bars, she sways, a wretched sight,

Feathers stained with crimson, drenched in endless night.

Eyes like shattered emeralds, reflecting deep despair,

Silent screams reverberate, echoing through the air.

**(Pre-Chorus)**

They gawk at her suffering, a grotesque masquerade,

While shadows gnaw at her spirit, in this twisted charade.

“Be grateful, dear,” they hiss, their words like a knife,

“Out there, it’s a nightmare; here, you have life.”

**(Chorus)**

She cries in the darkness,

her tears like blackened rain,

A haunting melody of sorrow,

a dirge of endless pain.

Screaming in silence as they turn their backs in shame,

A stunning bird, trapped in decay's cruel game.

**(Verse 2)**

Tattered wings bound by sorrow, a captive of grief,

Drenched in their feigned kindness, but it offers no relief.

Their hollow compassion drips like poison from the vine,

While the insatiable thirst for freedom sharpens her spine.

**(Pre-Chorus)**

“Look at her flourishing,” they say with cruel delight,

But they fail to see the darkness that haunts her every night.

A cage lined with velvet, a mausoleum of dreams,

With each heartbeat trembling, she dances in screams.

**(Chorus)**

She cries in the darkness,

her tears like blackened rain,

A haunting melody of sorrow,

a dirge of endless pain.

Screaming in silence as they turn their backs in shame,

A stunning bird, trapped in decay's cruel game. .

**(Bridge)**

In the cage, she lingers, a specter of lost song,

A beautiful bird in shadows where she doesn’t belong,

Let her wings shatter the void, let her spirit break free,

For the cost of their comfort is her endless misery

**(Chorus)**

She cries in the darkness,

her tears like blackened rain,

A haunting melody of sorrow,

a dirge of endless pain.

Screaming in silence as they turn their backs in shame,

A stunning bird, trapped in decay's cruel game.