[ti:the soul cages]
[ar:sting]
[00:19.70]The  boy  child  is  locked  in  the  fisherman's  yard
[00:22.46]There's  a  bloodless  moon  where  the  oceans  die
[00:26.87]A  shoal  of  night  stars  hang  fire  in  the  nest
[00:32.45]And  the  chaos  of  cages  where  the  crayfish  lie
[00:38.31]Where  is  the  fisherman,where  is  the  goat,
[00:41.48]Where  is  the  keeper  in  his  carrion  coat?
[00:46.33]Eclipse  on  the  moon  when  the  dark  bird  flies
[00:51.69]Where  is  the  child  with  his  father's  eyes?
[00:56.30]He's  the  king  of  the  ninth  world
[01:09.91]The  twisted  son  of  the  fog  bells'toll
[01:14.42]In  each  and  every  lobster  cage,a  tortured  human  soul
[01:18.32]These  are  the  souls  of  the  broken  factories
[01:28.12]The  subject  slaves  of  the  broken  crown
[01:32.79]The  dead  accounting  of  old  guilty  promises
[01:35.57]Sting
[01:37.23]These  are  the  souls  of  the  broken  town
[01:43.40]These  are  the  soul  cages
[01:46.75]These  are  the  soul  cages
[01:51.13]These  are  the  soul  cages
[01:56.25]These  are  the  soul  cages
[02:00.92]'I  have  a  wager,'the  brave  child  spoke
[02:23.02]The  fisherman  laughed  though  disturbed  at  the  joke
[02:25.87]'You  will  drink  what  I  drink
[02:28.53]But  you  must  equal  me,
[02:31.09]And  if  the  drink  leaves  me  standing,
[02:33.50]A  soul  shall  go  free'
[02:36.40]'I  have  here  a  cask  of  most  magical  wine
[02:40.89]A  vintage  that  blessed  every  ship  in  the  line
[02:43.89]It's  wrung  from  the  blood  of  the  sailors  who  died
[02:49.31]Young  white  bodies  adrift  in  the  tide'
[02:53.82]'And  what's  in  it  for  me,my  pretty  young  thing?
[02:59.23]If  you  lose  a  wager  with  the  king  of  the  sea
[03:03.05]You'll  spend  the  rest  of  forever  in  the  cage  with  me'
[03:13.12]These  are  the  soul  cages
[03:18.17]These  are  the  soul  cages
[03:22.74]These  are  the  soul  cages
[03:27.20]These  are  the  soul  cages
[03:30.81]A  body  lies  open  in  the  fisherman's  yard  like
[03:35.33]The  side  of  a  ship  where  the  iceberg  rips
[03:40.04]One  less  soul  in  the  soul  cages
[03:44.51]One  last  curse  on  the  fisherman's  lips
[03:50.43]These  are  the  soul  cages
[03:54.04]These  are  the  soul  cages
[03:58.76]These  are  the  soul  cages
[04:03.64]These  are  the  soul  cages
[04:08.19]These  are  the  soul  cages
[04:12.86]And  he  dreamed  of  a  ship  on  the  sea
[04:22.33]It  would  carry  his  father  and  he
[04:27.13]To  a  place  they  could  never  be  found
[04:31.45]To  a  place  far  away  from  this  town
[04:36.28]A  Newcastle  ship  with  no  coals
[04:40.74]They  would  sail  to  the  island  of  souls