Bruce Springsteen - Jackson Cage lyrics

Driving home, she grabs something to eat
Turns a corner and drives down her street
Into a row of houses, she just melts away
Like the scenery in another man's play
Into a house where the blinds are closed
To keep from seeing things
She don't wanna know
She pulls the blinds and looks
Out on the street
The cool of the night takes
The edge off the heat

In the Jackson Cage down in the Jackson Cage
You can try with all your might
But you're reminded every night
That you've been judged and handed life
Down in the Jackson Cage

Every day ends in wasted motion
Just crossed swords on the killing floor
To settle back is to settle without knowing
The hard edge that you're settling for
Because there's always just one more day
And it's always gonna be that way
Little girl, you've been down here so long
I can tell by the way that you move
You belong to

The Jackson Cage down in Jackson Cage
And it don't matter just what you say
Are you tough enough to play
The game they play?
Or will you just do your time and fade away?
Down into the Jackson Cage

Baby, there's nights when I dream
Of a better world
But I wake up so downhearted, girl
I see you feeling so tired and confused
I wonder what it's worth to me or you
Just waiting to see some sun
Never knowing if that day will ever come
Left alone standing out on the street
Till you become the hand that
Turns the key down in

Jackson Cage down in Jackson Cage
Well darling, can you understand
The way that they will turn a man
Into a stranger to waste away
Down in the Jackson Cage