The Soul Cages
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(upbeat rock music)
♪ The boy child is locked
in the fisherman's yard ♪
♪ There's a bloodless moon
where the oceans die ♪
♪ A shoal of nightstars
hang fire in the nets ♪
♪ And the chaos of cages
where the crayfish lie ♪
♪ Where is the fisherman,
where is the goat ♪
♪ Where is the keeper
in his carrion coat ♪
♪ Eclipse on the moon
when the dark bird flies ♪
♪ Where is the child
with his father's eyes ♪
♪♪♪
♪ He's the king of
the ninth world ♪
♪ The twisted son of
the fog bells toll ♪
♪ In each and every
lobster cage ♪
♪ A tortured human soul ♪
♪ These are the souls of
the broken factories ♪
♪ The subject slaves
of the broken crown ♪
♪ The dead accounting
of old guilty promises ♪
♪ These are the souls
of the broken town ♪
♪ These are the soul cages ♪
♪ These are the soul cages ♪
♪ These are the soul cages ♪
♪ These are the soul cages ♪
♪♪♪
♪ "I have a wager" the
brave child spoke ♪
♪ The fisherman laughed,
though disturbed at the joke ♪
♪ "You will drink what I
drink but you must equal me ♪
♪ And if the drink
leaves me standing, ♪
♪ A soul shall go free" ♪
♪ "I have here a cask
of most magical wine ♪
♪ A vintage that blessed
every ship in the line ♪
♪ It's wrung from the blood
of the sailors who died ♪
♪ Young white body
adrift in the tide" ♪
♪ "And what's in it for
me my pretty young thing ♪
♪ Why should I whistle,
when the caged bird sings ♪
♪ If you lose a wager
with the king of the sea ♪
♪ You'll spend the rest of
forever in the cage with me" ♪
♪ These are the soul cages ♪
♪ These are the soul cages ♪
♪ These are the soul cages ♪
♪ These are the soul cages ♪
♪ A body lies open in
the fisherman's yard ♪
♪ Like the side of a ship
where the iceberg rips ♪
♪ One less soul in
the soul cages ♪
♪ One last curse on
the fisherman's lips ♪
♪ These are the soul cages ♪
♪ These are the soul cages ♪
♪ These are the soul cages ♪
♪ These are the soul cages ♪
♪ These are the soul cages ♪
♪ These are the soul cages ♪
♪ He dreamed of the
ship on the sea ♪
♪ It would carry
his father and he ♪
♪ To a place they
could never be found ♪
♪ To a place far
away from this town ♪
♪ A Newcastle ship
without coals ♪
♪ They would sail to
the island of souls ♪
♪♪♪
♪ These are the soul cages ♪
♪ These are the soul cages ♪
♪ These are the soul cages ♪
♪ These are the soul cages ♪
♪ These are the soul cages ♪
♪ These are the soul cages ♪
