[00:00.02]Written by:Elton John/Bernie Taupin [00:14.98]Have you ever lived in a cage [00:18.73]Where you live to be whipped and be tamed [00:22.44]For I've never loved in a cage [00:26.18]Or talked to a friend or just waved [00:37.78]Well I walk while they talk about virtue [00:41.60]Just raised on my back legs and snarled [00:45.29]Watched you kiss your old daddy with passion [00:49.05]And tell dirty jokes as he died [01:00.60]But I'm damned when I really care there [01:04.23]For the cellar's the room in your lives [01:08.13]Where you lace yourself with bad whiskey [01:12.15]And close the cage doors on your life [02:02.21]Well I pray while you bathe in bad water [02:05.60]Sing songs that I learnt as a boy [02:09.43]Then break all the bones in my body [02:13.01]On the bars you can never destroy [02:24.64]Have you ever lived in a cage [02:28.22]Where you live to be whipped and be tamed [02:32.06]For I've never loved in a cage [02:36.34]Or talked to a friend or just waved