The Soul Cages-Sting

[00:14.97]Sting [00:26.46]The Soul Cages [00:26.91]The Soul Cages [00:27.24]The boy child is locked in the fisherman's yard [00:30.27]There's a bloodless moon where the oceans die [00:35.04]A shoal of night stars hang fire in the nest [00:37.56]And the chaos of cages where the crayfish lie [00:42.33]Where is the fisherman, where is the goat, [00:46.29]Where is the keeper in his carrion coat? [00:50.61]Eclipse on the moon when the dark bird flies [00:54.36]Where is the child with his father's eyes? [00:56.52]He's the king of the ninth world [01:18.69]The twisted son of the fog bells' toll [01:23.43]In each and every lobster cage, a tortured human soul [01:31.77]These are the souls of the broken factories [01:35.07]The subject slaves of the broken crown [01:39.21]The dead accounting of old guilty promises [01:42.51]These are the souls of the broken town [01:49.41]These are the soul cages [01:51.36]These are the soul cages [01:53.22]These are the soul cages [01:59.46]These are the soul cages [02:34.77]'I have a wager,' the brave child spoke [02:37.53]The fisherman laughed though disturbed at the joke [02:41.43]'You will drink what I drink [02:43.44]But you must equal me, [02:45.48]And if the drink leaves me standing, [02:47.16]A soul shall go free' [02:50.28]'I have here a cask of most magical wine [02:54.99]A vintage that blessed every ship in the line [02:57.54]It's wrung from the blood of the sailors who died [03:03.81]Young white bodies adrift in the tide' [03:06.57]'And what's in it for me, my pretty young thing? [03:10.32]Why should I whistle when the caged bird sings? [03:13.80]If you lose a wager with the king of the sea [03:17.67]You'll spend the rest of forever in the cage with me' [03:20.07]These are the soul cages [03:20.64]These are the soul cages [03:21.18]These are the soul cages [03:38.49]These are the soul cages [03:39.51]A body lies open in the fisherman's yard like [03:42.36]The side of a ship where the iceberg rips [03:46.47]One less soul in the soul cages [03:50.34]One last curse on the fisherman's lips [03:55.14]These are the soul cages [03:59.10]These are the soul cages [04:03.09]These are the soul cages [04:07.14]These are the soul cages [04:15.24]These are the soul cages [04:24.18]And he dreamed of a ship on the sea [04:25.59]It would carry his father and he [04:29.01]To a place they could never be found [04:37.38]To a place far away from this town [04:44.67]A Newcastle ship with no coals [05:10.83]They would sail to the island of souls