The Soul Cages-Sting

[ti:The Soul Cages]
[ar:Sting]
[al:The Soul Cages]
[by:]
[offset:0]
[00:20.54]The boy child is locked in the fisherman's yard
[00:23.60]
[00:24.98]There's a bloodless moon where the ocean died
[00:28.01]
[00:29.51]A shoal of nightstars hang fire in the nets
[00:32.94]And the chaos of cages where the crayfish lie
[00:38.18]
[00:38.75]Where is the fisherman where is the goat
[00:42.86]Where is the keeper in his carrion coat
[00:46.98]Eclipse on the moon when the dark bird flies
[00:51.48]
[00:52.41]Where is the child with his father's eyes
[00:56.63]
[01:06.49]He's the king of the ninth world
[01:08.67]
[01:10.54]The twisted son of the fog bells toll
[01:14.19]In each and every lobster cage
[01:19.00]A tortured human soul
[01:21.50]
[01:24.18]These are the souls of broken factories
[01:28.17]
[01:28.73]The subject slaves of the broken crown
[01:31.85]
[01:33.35]The dead accounting of old guilty promises
[01:37.53]
[01:38.04]These are the souls of the broken town
[01:42.34]
[01:42.96]These are the soul cages
[01:46.02]
[01:47.95]These are the soul cages
[01:50.57]
[01:52.57]These are the soul cages
[01:55.25]
[01:56.94]These are the soul cages
[01:59.62]
[02:19.10]'I have a wager' the brave child spoke
[02:22.52]The fisherman laughed though disturbed at the joke
[02:26.95]'You will drink what I drink but you must equal me
[02:31.63]And if the drink leaves me standing
[02:34.00]A soul shall go free'
[02:36.69]'I have here a cask of most magical wine
[02:40.43]A vintage that blessed every ship in the line
[02:45.17]It's wrung from the blood of the sailor's who died
[02:49.92]Young white bodies adrift in the tide'
[02:54.78]'And what's in it for me my pretty young thing
[02:59.65]Why should I whistle when the caged bird sings
[03:03.22]If you lose a wager with the king of the sea
[03:07.77]You'll spend the rest of forever in the cage with me'
[03:12.01]
[03:14.50]These are the soul cages
[03:17.56]
[03:18.87]These are the soul cages
[03:21.62]
[03:23.36]These are the soul cages
[03:26.48]
[03:27.92]These are the soul cages
[03:31.60]A body lies open in the fisherman's yard
[03:35.09]Like the side of a ship where the iceberg rips
[03:39.23]
[03:40.68]One less soul in the soul cages
[03:43.71]
[03:45.19]One last curse on the fisherman's lips
[03:49.25]
[03:50.81]These are the soul cages
[03:53.88]
[03:55.13]These are the soul cages
[03:58.61]
[03:59.86]These are the soul cages
[04:03.05]
[04:04.17]These are the soul cages
[04:07.48]
[04:08.79]These are the soul cages
[04:11.98]
[04:13.15]These are the soul cages
[04:16.88]
[04:18.70]He dreamed of the ship on the sea
[04:22.12]
[04:23.07]It would carry his father and he
[04:27.75]To a place they could never be found
[04:31.23]
[04:32.18]To a place far away from this town
[04:36.22]
[04:37.36]A Newcastle ship without coals
[04:40.78]
[04:41.40]They would sail to the island of souls