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Sting |
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The Soul Cages |
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The Soul Cages |
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The boy child is locked in the fisherman's yard |
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There's a bloodless moon where the oceans die |
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A shoal of night stars hang fire in the nest |
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And the chaos of cages where the crayfish lie |
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Where is the fisherman, where is the goat, |
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Where is the keeper in his carrion coat? |
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Eclipse on the moon when the dark bird flies |
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Where is the child with his father's eyes? |
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He's the king of the ninth world |
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The twisted son of the fog bells' toll |
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In each and every lobster cage, a tortured human soul |
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These are the souls of the broken factories |
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The subject slaves of the broken crown |
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The dead accounting of old guilty promises |
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These are the souls of the broken town |
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These are the soul cages |
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These are the soul cages |
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These are the soul cages |
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These are the soul cages |
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'I have a wager,' the brave child spoke |
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The fisherman laughed though disturbed at the joke |
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'You will drink what I drink |
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But you must equal me, |
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And if the drink leaves me standing, |
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A soul shall go free' |
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'I have here a cask of most magical wine |
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A vintage that blessed every ship in the line |
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It's wrung from the blood of the sailors who died |
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Young white bodies adrift in the tide' |
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'And what's in it for me, my pretty young thing? |
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Why should I whistle when the caged bird sings? |
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If you lose a wager with the king of the sea |
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You'll spend the rest of forever in the cage with me' |
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These are the soul cages |
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These are the soul cages |
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These are the soul cages |
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These are the soul cages |
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A body lies open in the fisherman's yard like |
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The side of a ship where the iceberg rips |
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One less soul in the soul cages |
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One last curse on the fisherman's lips |
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These are the soul cages |
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These are the soul cages |
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These are the soul cages |
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These are the soul cages |
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These are the soul cages |
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And he dreamed of a ship on the sea |
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It would carry his father and he |
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To a place they could never be found |
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To a place far away from this town |
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A Newcastle ship with no coals |
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They would sail to the island of souls |
