Um, hopefully not for long and not often, you know but.' You know, I don't think those feelings were unique to me, or unique to that time and place, they're, they're feelings that everybody, I think, well as its says in the song: sooner or later it's going to get ya. I was just, I mean there was a lot about the way I was living at the time that just wasn't working and I was really feeling that and that's pretty much the song. I had remarked to the person that I was with at the time, um, not in reference to being 'with' her but with reference to my life in general that I felt like I was pacing the cage. 'Pacing the Cage came pretty quick, unlike some of these other ones that, where ideas sat around for a long time. from 'Night Reveals Clues, Not Answers - Bruce Cockburn internalizes his angst while looking forward to an awakening', by Alexander Varty, The Georgia Straight, 22. 'I think the metaphor has more to do with presenting ID or constantly having yourself identified as someone who's worthy to buy this object or that object or cross this border or that border.Ê And I was thinking, too, of my own chameleon nature when I said that, as much as anything, and that's what's been changing - and periodically does change.Ê The astrologers would say it's because I'm a Gemini - but there are other explanations too, I'm sure.' Known comments by Bruce Cockburn about this song, by date: Sometimes the road leads through dark placesīruce Cockburn: Acoustic Guitar and Vocal

Sometimes the best map will not guide you Sometimes you feel like you live too long Rumours of Glory - box set Disc 6 (2014) Bruce Cockburn - Songs - Pacing The Cage SONGS:Īnything Anytime Anywhere, Singles 1979-2002 (2002)

Sooner or Later by Bruce Hart