Funny thing about cages... Some ain't locked. Some just comfortable. [Verse 1] Used tah stare out windows dreamin bout highways, Everybody else dreamin bout promotions and Fridays. They said settle down. I said settle fo what? Watch my whole damn life get boxed in a coffee cup? Punch da clock. Punch da wall. Punch a smile on my face. Every day felt identical, different date...same place. Got a paycheck and depression, like a two-fo-one deal. Everybody call it stable, I forgot how tah feel. (how tah feel...) Dey said "grow up." I said maybe. Dey said "be realistic." That shit sounded crazy. I seen free people sleepin in vans by da ocean. And trapped people livin in mansions goin through da motions. Everybody got advice when they scared tah jump. Most people ain't afraid of failure. Dey afraid of disruption. [Hook] G0LDEN CAGE.. Shinin in da sunlight. Pretty from a distance... Still a cage at midnight. G0LDEN CAGE.. Everybody wanna stay. I was busy countin exits, dreamin bout gettin away. [Verse 2] Had friends stay stuck in relationships for decades. Callin chains commitment cause da truth felt unsafe. Watched people lose themselves tryin tah fit da mold. Trade curiosity away fo a story they'd been sold. Girl, smile more. Girl, sit still. Girl, act proper. Girl, lower your ambition cause it make em uncomfortable. Nah. I'd rather be weird. I'd rather get judged. I'd rather sleep under stars than die inside a cubicle. What? Still Daddy's baby girl. Still got dirt on my boots. Still got dreams bigger than every room they put me into. Uncle Red eYE said: "Don't let em make ya smaller." I don't know if he meant people... or fear. Either way, I heard em. (I heard em...) I ain't runnin from responsibility. I'm runnin toward possibility. Difference. [Hook] G0LDEN CAGE.. Shinin in da sunlight. Pretty from a distance... Still a cage at midnight. G0LDEN CAGE.. Everybody wanna stay. I was busy countin exits, dreamin bout gettin away. [Bridge] Some people inherit houses. Some inherit prisons. Some inherit both. And spend they whole life confusin one fo da other. [Verse 3] Maybe I'm da problem. Maybe I'm da proof. Maybe every wild thing look crazy from da roof. Maybe I got abandonment issues. Maybe I got wings. Maybe both explain why I never stay anywhere long. KC made me. Roads raised me. Heartbreak paid me. Music saved me. And every time I tried tah fit in... I lost somethin sacred. Never again. G0LDEN CAGE.. Door wide open... Everybody trapped... Nobody notices. G0LDEN CAGE.. I kissed da bars goodbye. Now I'm chasin sunsets while they argue over why. [Outro] If freedom scares you... don't follow me.
