“Cage of freedom
That’s our prison
Where the jailer and captive combine
Cage of freedom
Cast in power
All the trappings of our own design
Blind ambition
Steals our reason
We’re soon behind those invisible bars
On the inside Looking outside
To make it safer we double the guard
Cage of freedom
There’s no escaping
We fabricated a world of our own
Cage of freedom, growing smaller
‘Til every wall now touches the skin
Cage of freedom, filled with treason
Changing sides as the losses begin
Our suspicion tries escaping
But they step up the security
There’s no exit–there’s no entrance
Remember how we swallowed the key?
Cage of freedom, that’s our prison
We fabricated this world on our own.”
– Cage of Freedom. (Excerpted from the lyrics by Jon Anderson, from the soundtrack to Metropolis.)