Grammy-winning rock band Cage the Elephant has been making music for 20 years now, and after touring with Oasis last year, they’re back in 2026 with their biggest, boldest chapter yet.
Earlier this month, they released their first single in two years, “Beaches In Tennessee,” which also marks their first release with Big Loud Rock. We’re eagerly awaiting more to come from the band, best known for hits including “Cigarette Daydreams” and “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked.” Below, we’ve collected 60 of their greatest lyrics of all time to use as Instagram captions.
For feeling caged in by the world:
“Looking through the glass, all that I can see, reflection of the man who threw away the key.”
-“Beaches In Tennessee”
For being exhausted by the rapid passage of time:
“Every day now turned into a night, catching circles under my eyes.”
-“HiFi (True Light)”
For when they misestimate you:
“You did the math wrong, you gotta round me down.”
-“HiFi (True Light)”
For not being able to afford the thing you really want:
“Comes at a high price, a price I can’t pay.”
-“HiFi (True Light)”
For when they can read your every move:
“Straight from the top, you called my hand and I felt labeled.”
-“Rainbow”
For feeling completely infatuated:
“As far as east is to the west, there is no flaw in you. It’s you I want, it’s you I want, it’s you I want and only you.”
-“Rainbow”
For wondering if success or authenticity is more important:
“Am I afraid to lose or more afraid to lose my way?”
-“Rainbow”
For knowing you’re two of a kind:
“It takes one to know one, back at it again. Birds of a feather until the end.”
-“Neon Pill”
For feeling detached from reality:
“I just float into the sky, I just float into my mind.”
-“Float Into The Sky”
For realizing someone has no thoughts or opinions of their own:
“Just a perfect deflection when you got no perspective.”
-“Metaverse”
For struggling to admit to your wrongdoings:
“Man, I really messed up now. Too afraid to say it out loud.”
-“Out Loud”
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For owning up to a mistake:
“If I say my bad, you can trust in that.”
-“Ball and Chain”
For escaping the thing that once keep you chained down:
“Cut that ball and chain.”
-“Ball and Chain”
For the celebration that breaks you from your mood:
“Everybody had a good time. Better yet, I’m getting mine.”
-“Good Time”
For one only one person truly sees you:
“You cut through my human condition.”
-“Shy Eyes”
For just wanting truth and constancy:
“I don’t wanna play those games. Will we ever be the same?”
-“Same”
For that bright and early start:
“Early in the morning, rise to meet the sun.”
-“Always Something”
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For attempting to let go of what you can’t control:
“Why can’t you see you can’t control the weather?”
-“Always Something”
For when your best-laid plans go to awry:
“But it never works out the way I wrote it in my hands. I tried, I tried, I tried, I tried.”
-“Always Something”
For getting infatuated with something new:
“I’ve got these pictures keep on rolling around my head. I want to hang them on the wall above my bed.”
-“Indy Kidz”
For seeking something that’s real:
“I don’t watch TV cause it’s just a box of lies.”
-“Indy Kidz”
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For holding onto hope, even when it’s gloomy:
“Even on a cloudy day.”
-“Shake Me Down”
For realizing you can’t force yourself to think anything:
“Well, I tried to paint my mind, but now I’m stuck here in the middle.”
-“Sell Yourself”
For when your view on the situation suddenly changes:
“Trying to stand like a big strong tough man. Finding out fast that I’m sinking in sand.”
-“Rubber Ball”
For hoping love is enough to get by on:
“All I got is nothing but a little bit of love, and gonna give it to the people. Then they’ll see.”
-“Rubber Ball”
For when life changes in the blink of an eye:
“Everything I thought I knew fell to the side. Time went on and on I couldn’t see past my own eyes.”
-“Right Before My Eyes”
For being in an inexplicable mood:
“I don’t know why I got these feelings, yeah, I just can’t seem to get away from.”
-“Around My Head”
For meeting someone who’s charming but definitely evil:
“On the other side of town lives a saber-tooth tiger. Paints a real good picture, he’s an excellent liar.”
-“Sabertooth Tiger”
For lamenting the dust on the unread books in your library:
“All these books on the shelf, yeah they’re dusty again.”
-“Carry Me In”
For having to work your way to the top:
“I was born on the wrong side of the train tracks.”
-“Broken Boy”
For feeling like you’ve always been different:
“Tell me why I’m forced to live in this skin. I’m an alien.”
-“Broken Boy”
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For knowing that nothing lasts forever:
“I think it’s strange when people say you’re the next big thing, you’ll never fade.”
-“Social Cues”
For gettings some distance from the real world:
“Climb so high, don’t hear a sound.”
-“Black Madonna”
For laying down for bed:
“Close my eyes and drift into the silence.”
-“Skin and Bones”
For feeling ready to find the place you belong:
“I’ve been running for so long all that’s left is skin and bones.”
-“Skin and Bones”
For when the inevitable time arrives:
“Ain’t it strange? We both knew this day was coming.”
-“Ready to Let Go”
For finally relinquishing control:
“I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready to let go.”
-“Ready to Let Go”
For being bored of everything:
“I’m underwhelmed, uninterested, I wonder why I’m over it.”
-“House of Glass”
For knowing better times are coming:
“I can see the sunshine, breaking through the skyline. I can feel the warmth it brings.”
-“Love’s the Only Way”
For never knowing how to ask for help:
“When I was a young man, I never needed anyone.”
-“The War Is Over”
For being unable to keep up the facade:
“You can build your walls, love will tear it down.”
-“The War Is Over”
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For when falseness begins to wear on you:
“I played the fool ’til I started to choke. My public smile, my double face.”
-“Tokyo Smoke”
For feeling every complicated emotion at once:
“I want to scream, I want to laugh, I want to close my eyes.”
-“Goodbye”
For struggling to comprehend the rat face:
“I think it’s pretty strange watching the passersby crawling all over one another trying to get ahead in life.”
-“Cry Baby”
For the one who lights up your life:
“Oh my precious ember burning, my sweet glowing light. From the moment I first saw you, I was yours and you were mine.”
-“Too Late to Say Goodbye”
For feeling numb and emotionless:
“Doctor, look into my eyes. I’ve been breathing air, but there’s no sign of life.”
-“Cold Cold Cold”
For when it feels like everything weighs on what you do:
“Got so much to lose. Got so much to prove.”
-“Trouble”
For things not being what they appear:
“Oh, I never saw it coming. I thought that you were joking. You were actually quite serious.”
-“How Are You True”
For trying to leave your worries in the past:
“Let your hair down, let’s unwind. Take your problems, leave them behind.”
-“That’s Right”
For refusing to speak anything but your truth:
“I get in trouble cause I speak my mind.”
-“That’s Right”
For wanting to spend all your time with someone:
“I wanna waste my life with you.”
-“Portuguese Knife Fight”
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For when they’re hot and cold:
“Oh, why won’t you make up your mind?”
-“Take It or Leave It”
For the situation you can’t figure out:
“Either I’m in heaven, or I’m in hell. Am I losing my mind here? ‘Cause I can’t tell.”
-“Spiderhead”
For when even death won’t stop your love:
“I’ll love you ’til we decompose and the skin falls off our bones.”
-“It’s Just Forever”
For accepting your part in things:
“I guess that I’m the hypocrite. You’re not responsible. I’m responsible.”
-“Hyprocite”
For not caring what people think of you:
“They say that we ain’t got the style, we ain’t got the class.”
-“In One Ear”
For ignoring the haters:
“So it goes in one ear and right out the other.”
-“In One Ear”
For doing what you have to in order to get by:
“Oh there ain’t no rest for the wicked. Money don’t grow on trees.”
-“Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked”
For striving to change your ways:
“The lotus flower’s got me thinking bout the way that we live. I’ve got this feeling it’s gonna stop.”
-“Lotus”
For the outburst that makes things worse:
“Screaming at the ceiling doesn’t make it better.”
-“Drones In the Valley”
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