The Soul Cages.kar

Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh.
Ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh.

One child is locked in the fisherman's yard,
a bloodless moon where the oceans die.

A shoal of night stars 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,
twisted son of the fog bell's toll.

In each and ev'ry lobster cage,
a tortured human soul.

These are the souls of the broken factories,
subject slaves of the broken crown,

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.

If the drink leaves me standin',
a soul should go free.

I have here a cask of most magical wine,
a vintage that blessed ev'ry ship in the line.

It's wrung from the blood of the sailors who died,
young white bodies adrift in the tide."

"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.

And he dreamed of a 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.

Ooh ooh ooh.
These are the soul cages.

Ooh ooh ooh.
These are the soul cages.

Ooh ooh ooh.
These are the soul cages.

Ooh ooh ooh.
These are the soul cages.