My body is a cage

I'm standing on a stage

Of fear and self-doubt

It's a hollow play

But they'll clap anyway

My body is a cage that keeps me

From dancing with the one I love

But my mind holds the key

I'm living in an age

That calls darkness light

Though my language is dead

Still the shapes fill my head

I'm living in an age

Whose name I don't know

Though the fear keeps me moving

Still my heart beats so slow

My body is a cage that keeps me

From dancing with the one I love

But my mind holds the key

I'm living in an age

That screams my name at night

But when I get to the doorway

There's no one in sight

Peter Gabriel

Fight the Darkness

i'm scared of swimming in the sea

dark shapes moving under me

every fear i swallow makes me small

inconsequential things occur

alarms are triggered

memories stir

it's not the way it has to be

i'm afraid of what i do not know

i hate being undermined

i'm afraid i can be devil man

and i'm scared to be divine

don't mess with me my fuse is short

beneath this skin these fragments caught

when i allow it to be

there's no control over me

i have my fears

but they do not have me

walking through the undergrowth, to the house in the woods

the deeper I go, the darker it gets

i peer through the window

knock at the door

and the monster i was

so afraid of

lies curled up on the floor

is curled up on the floor just like a baby boy

i cry until i laugh

walking through the undergrowth, to the house in the woods

the deeper i go, the darker it gets

i peer through the window

knock at the door

and the monster i was

so afraid of

lies curled up on the floor

is curled up on the floor just like a baby boy

Peter Gabriel