Chords for Pacing the Cage- Bruce Cockburn Documentary

It's kind of the job of everyone, _ regardless of their occupation, to _ _ affect the world in
whatever positive way they can.
Of course, we have all the different definitions of what's positive, but _ growing up, I mean,
I kind of fall back on this all the time, but it was so heavily implicated in me by
_ the camp that I used to go to when I [F#] was a kid.
You know, [C#m] you'd be canoe tripping in Algonquin Park and they'd always leave the campsite
[E] better than you found.
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_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [B] _
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[E] _ _ _ [G#] Sunset is an [A] angel we make, _ _ _ [E] _ _
[B] holding out a [F#] bloody sword.
_ _ [A] _
_ _ [E] _ _ [B] No matter how much [C#m] squint I can't un _ -make _ [E] _
_ [B] out what it was [F#] in your war. _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ Sometimes you feel [Bm] like you're in the _ doom, _
[C#m] day is drenched slowly, and you're not sure
what you're doing.
You're probably on the page.
_ [C#] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
[F#] _ _ Catch yourself, _ _ _ facing the cage. _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ [E] I'm a political person, I mean, I don't really define myself that way exactly, [C#] but I think
that politics is an inescapable part of the human experience.
[N] I'm not especially anything, I [B] just, I'm a songwriter, but I [C] care about stuff [N] and _ I care
about people and the stuff that I end up getting involved with usually has [C] to do with
trying to avoid [F] people getting hurt, or [B] hurting themselves as the case may be.
_ _ [F] _ _ [C] But political, I mean, [B] everything we do is political, everything we [Fm] human beings do [C] is political. _
[E] _ How many can say [G] murder? _
_ _ _ Only God can [Bm] say.
If _ [C] _ I [G] had a rocket [Bm]
launcher, _ _ _ if I had [Bm] a rocket launcher, _ _ [C] if I had a rocket launcher, I'd
make [E] somebody pay.
The music that really put music on my [D#] radar is something that I wanted to do was first
rock and roll.
So, you know, the guitar players, _ _ _ whoever Gene Vincent's guitar player was, Scotty Moore
who played with Elvis, _ Buddy Holly and the Crickets, _ _ that's the kind of, [N] and the Ventures
eventually too, that's the kind of guitar playing that [E] _ got me excited about the instrument. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
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[E] _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ Getting prepared to [B] haul a car out [A] of the woods, the smoking concrete seems [E] to be all
the way up her arm, grinding gears and drivers getting high on exhaust, [A] digging up the water
down below, window of love.
_ _ [B] _ I have my little [F#m] rituals, you know, that help [F] and I have a pretty _ [B] major need for kind of
private space [E] and so [N] I have my back room and the bus I can go to if I need that.
The people who do best touring are the people who _ _ are [C#] comfortable with [B] silences and comfortable
[F#] with _ _ [C#m] _ allowing [E] everybody their space.
[G#m] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[B] Sometimes the best man [C#m] will be you, _ _
_ _ [E] _ you [B] can't see what's [C#m] wrong.
_ _ _ What I think [F#] is there in Bruce is that he is an agitator and a protester but he's [A] also
a musician and they go [F#] hand in hand, it's not just one or the [G#m] other.
I [B] think that's what, [A] he's a fully rounded musician and that [F#] includes poetics as well as [Em] art. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ You've got a _ [F#] dream like [C] _ mine _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [E] _
[Em] You've got a _ dream [D] _ like [C] _ mine
_ Music can [D]
be perceived even as a weapon of [Bm] peace, [F#] an instrument that can actually
_ attenuate conflict [D] because it _ [C] reduces the sense of friction between cultures and in fact
[A] provides people with an expression of serenity and [Em] hope.
_ _ Somebody who feels [G] strongly about a particular issue goes to a show that's, [G#m] you know, by an
artist and all of a sudden they're in a room full of people that feel as they do, [E] whereas previous
to being there they might [B] have felt isolated and so [A]
that's the kind of thing I'm talking about.
_ _ [E] _ Sometimes [B] the darkness is [A] your friend, _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] today's ice [B] can reach down and land
for [C#m] the coming of the _ _ outbound _
[C#] stage, _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
pacing the [A] _ [F#] cage, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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pacing [A] the cage
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