The Soul Cages - Sting

[00:20.40]The boy child is locked in the fisherman's yard
[00:25.04]There's a bloodless moon where the oceans die
[00:29.40]A shoal of night stars hang fire in the nets
[00:33.05]And the chaos of cages where the crayfish lie
[00:38.65]Where is the fisherman, where is the goat
[00:43.18]Where is the keeper in his carrion coat
[00:46.92]Eclipse on the moon when the dark bird flies
[00:52.35]Where is the child with his father's eyes
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[01:06.19]He's the king of the ninth world
[01:10.60]The twisted son of the fog bells' toll
[01:13.71]In each and every lobster cage, a tortured human soul
[01:24.02]These are the souls of the broken factories
[01:28.65]The subject slaves of the broken crown
[01:33.32]The dead accounting of old guilty promises
[01:37.86]These are the souls of the broken town
[01:43.60]These are the soul cages
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[02:19.07]'I have a wager,' the brave child spoke “
[02:23.33]The fisherman laughed though disturbed at the joke
[02:27.46]'You will drink what I drink
[02:29.34]But you must equal me
[02:31.49]And if the drink leaves me standing
[02:34.22]A soul shall go free'
[02:36.77]'I have here a cask of most magical wine
[02:41.28]A vintage that blessed every ship in the line
[02:45.23]It's wrung from the blood of the sailors who died
[02:50.02]Young white bodies adrift in the tide'
[02:54.87]'And what's in it for me, my pretty young thing?
[02:59.29]Why should I whistle when the caged bird sings?
[03:03.38]If you lose a wager with the king of the sea
[03:07.88]You'll spend the rest of forever in the cage with me'
[03:14.40]These are the soul cages
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[03:31.19]A body lies open in the fisherman's yard like
[03:36.24]The side of a ship where the iceberg rips
[03:40.27]One less soul in the soul cages
[03:45.06]One last curse on the fisherman's lips
[03:50.67]These are the soul cages
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[04:18.53]And he dreamed of a ship on the sea
[04:23.04]It would carry his father and he
[04:27.52]To a place they could never be found
[04:32.20]To a place far away from this town
[04:37.19]A Newcastle ship with no coals
[04:41.20]They would sail to the island of souls
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[05:08.72]These are the soul cages
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