Project: Cage of Me 

Inspired by past personal health issues, Zoe Mina wrote this for school. Acknowledging her memories and writing from the heart, she brings a song that speaks in rawness about being caged and entrapped.

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Cage of Me by Zoe Mina

​Style: Pop Ballad

Key: C minor

Time Signature: 4/4

​[Verse]
Cm      Bb            Ab
Things out of my hands (5)
Fm
I can’t manipulate (6)
Cm        Bb   Ab
How do I control (5)
Db
What I can’t stipulate (6)

Cm       Bb             Ab
Unable to make a change (7)
Fm
Until my tale’s run its course (7)
Cm         Bb                Ab
Nothing to do but watch (6)
Db
Even though I’m the source

[Chorus]
Fm                     Eb
I’m screaming now, banging my fists (8)
Ab           Cm
On glass no one can see (6)
Fm             Eb
I’m trapped in a cage (5)
Ab         Cm
That’s actually made of me (7)
Fm          Eb
The lone tear (3)
Ab                  Cm
On my cheek goes unseen (6)

[Instrumental]

[Verse]
Cm         Bb         Ab
Now I’m back on my feet (6)
Fm
Staring at the road ahead (7)
Cm   Bb       Ab
Why does it feel (4)
Db
Like I’m still there (4)
Cm          Bb      Ab
Over and over I watch (7)
Fm
The same scene in my head (6)
Cm                  Bb       Ab
Still searching for the remote (7)
Db
To play something else instead (8)

[Chorus]
Fm                     Eb
I’m screaming now, banging my fists (8)
Ab           Cm
On glass no one can see (6)
Fm              Bb
I’m trapped in a cage (5)
Ab         Cm
That’s actually made of me (7)
Fm            Eb
The lone tear (3)
Ab                  Cm
On my cheek goes unseen (6)
Fm                    Eb
Swallowing the cries (5)
Ab         Bb
Until the [Bridge starts here] cage of me (9)

[Bridge]
(cage of me)
Ab Bb
Is no more (3)
Ab         Bb
The cage of me (4)

Is gone (2)

[Chorus]
Fm                     Eb
I’m screaming now, banging my fists (8)
Ab          Cm
On glass no one can see (6)
Fm              Bb
I’m trapped in a cage (5)
Ab         Cm
That’s actually made of me (7)
Fm         Eb
The lone tear (3)
Ab                  Cm
On my cheek goes unseen (6)

[Verse]
Cm          Bb              Ab
Trying to reach past the glass (8)
Fm
That still contains me (5)
Cm         Bb           Ab
Pressing against it hard (6)
Db
But it’s not forgiving (6)

[Chorus]
Fm                     Eb
I’m screaming now, banging my fists (8)
Ab          Cm
On glass no one can see (6)
Fm              Bb
I’m trapped in a cage (5)
Ab         Cm
That’s actually made of me (7)
Fm         Eb
The lone tear (3)
Ab                  Cm
On my cheek goes unseen (6)

Oh

Fm                     Eb
I’m screaming now, banging my fists (8)
Ab          Cm
On glass no one can see (6)
Fm              Bb
I’m trapped in a cage (5)
Ab         Cm
That’s actually made of me (7)
Fm         Eb
The lone tear (3)
Ab                  Cm
On my cheek goes unseen (6)