Joe Henry - This Is My Favorite Cage lyrics

Oh this is my favorite cage It grows up around me like silver strands Of briar and roses, wisdom and rage To cradle my heart like a bird in your hand Of briar and roses, wisdom and rage This is my favorite cage It grows up around me like silver strands And cradles my heart like a bird in your hand This is a beautiful war to be sure A surrendering hero's name will be sung Or scratched in the sand like some secret cure When all else has failed and the battle feared won Scratched in the sand like some secret cure This is a beautiful war to be sure A surrendering hero's name will be sung When all else has failed and the battle feared won This is a star more perfect than peace A flash in the dark setting fire to trees Wresting my faith down out of the eaves Bending my will back up on its knees This is loveliest tumble from grace Into the arms of what is unbound From gravity's rule by a glimpse of your face It sets to falling what will never touch ground From gravity's rule by a glimpse of your face This is loveliest tumble from grace Into the arms of what is unbound You set me to falling and I never touch ground