From the recording Beyond the Cage of Silence full version
Produced, composed, arranged, and recorded by Gravelle-Perinbam.
Mastered by Roland Marckwort - Digital Zen Studio: www.dzstudio.ca
Rob Gravelle: All guitars, keys, in fact, everything other than vocals, drums, or bass guitar was played by Rob.
John Perinbam: All vocals, drums, bass guitar
Music: Gravelle, Perinbam
Melody and lyrics: Perinbam
Interesting fact: an early version of this song was played live by Gravelle and Perinbam in their former band, Dr. Squish.
Lyrics
Outside my window there’s an open road
And it’s calling out to me
A distant shore on the horizon
I will soon be free
So I leave the empty hours of dreaming
Look out to the sea
Set my sails for a new horizon
Nothing left for me
Beyond the cage of silence we can fly
Behind your window only emptiness
Filled with shame and misery
But you’ve told me oh so many times
That this is the place for me
So I leave the empty hours of dreaming
Look out to the sea
Set my sails for new horizons
Nothing here for me
Beyond the cage of silence
You kept us all our lives
The world is waiting
No silence is justified
And from the cage of silence we will rise
Outside these windows there’s a universe
That is calling out to me
No longer trapped by your horizons
And now I will be free
Beyond the cage of silence
You kept us all our lives
The world is waiting
No silence is justified
And from the cage of silence we will rise
I listened to you nearly all my life,
Thought that you knew a thing or two
But now your sheer hypocrisy appals me
I will not follow you
On and on we drift towards the future
We’ve got nothing in mind
Afraid of what we might
Discover
Is the end worth waiting for?
Beyond the cage of silence
You kept us all our lives
The world is waiting
No silence is justified
Beyond the cage of silence
You kept us all our lives
The world is waiting
No silence is justified
So I leave the empty hours of dreaming
Look out to the sea
Set my sails for a new horizon
Nothing left for me
Beyond the cage of silence I will fly
I’ve come to realize just what you are
A victim of somebody’s fear
Inflicting your beliefs on everyone around you
Close your eyes to what’s real
Beyond the cage of silence
You kept us all our lives
The world is waiting
No silence is justified
Beyond the cage of silence
Hidden from us all our lives
The world is waiting
No silence is justified