We have one chance.
One chance to get everything right.
We have one chance, one chance.
And if we're lucky we might.

My friends, my habits, my family,
They mean so much to me.
I just don't think that it's right.
I've seen so many ships sail in,
Just to head back out again and go off sinking.

I'm just a box in a cage. I'm just a box in a cage.
I'm just a box, just a box in a cage.
I'm just a box, just a box in a cage.
I'm just a box, just a box in a cage.
I'm just a box in a cage.

Didn't mean to laugh, didn't know I had.
Didn't know the better part of what you said
'cause in your head you are not home.

Didn't get the joke. Didn't mean to poke another,
Just to save myself
From some something something or another one.
Well walk home.

I'm just a box in a cage. I'm just a box in a cage.
I'm just a box, just a box in a cage.
I'm just a box in a cage.

I'm just a box, just a box in a cage.
I'm just a box, just a box in a cage.
I'm just a box in a cage.

We have one chance,
One chance to get everything right.
My friends, my habits, my family,
They mean so much to me.
I just don't think that it's right.
I've seen so many ships sail in,
Just to head back out again and go off sinking.


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One Chance Lyrics as written by Kelly Brock Brian Howes

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    That open box in a cage thing makes me think that that line is talking about how most people are conformists and that makes them perfectly content with not thinking about things in ways, or just things, most people don't. Then the people who do are not accepted in normal society, when they know more about life and things with deep meanings. So Isaac thinks about these things, and it opens his eyes, making him an "open box in a cage" with the cage being society...

    ...Or maybe I think that because I hate society, and spend time thinking about life and ways to live better and to not conform to things i don't want to conform to.

    RoxrsBoxrson September 25, 2007   Link

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