The Soul Cages Lyrics - The Soul Cages - Sting

The boy child is locked in the fisherman's yard 

There's a bloodless moon where the ocean died 

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? 

There are the soul cages 

These are the soul cages 

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 

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These are the souls of 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 sailor's who died 

Young white bodies adrift in the tide' 

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'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 

Swim to the light Swim to the light 

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