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 Jackson Cage   You can try with all your might   But you're reminded every night   That you been judged and handed life   Down in 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 darlin' can you understand   The way that they will turn a man   Into a stranger to waste away   Down in the Jackson Cage