Sting - The Soul Cages

[00:20.10] The boy child was locked in the fisherman's yard [00:24.43] A bloodless moon where the oceans die [00:29.10] A shoal of night stars hang fire in the nets [00:32.82] And the chaos of cages where the crayfish lie [00:38.53] Where is the fisherman? Where is the goat? [00:42.84] Where is the keeper in his carrion coat? [00:46.54] Eclipse on the moon when the dark bird flies [00:52.21] Where is the child with his father's eyes? [00:58.50] [01:06.07] He's the king of the ninth world [01:10.18] Twisted son of the fog bells toll [01:13.76] In each and every lobster cage [01:18.49] A tortured human soul [01:23.87] These are the souls of the broken factories [01:28.55] Subject slaves of the broken crown [01:33.18] Dead accounting of old guilty promises [01:37.54] These are the souls of the broken town [01:43.02] These are the soul cages [01:47.62] These are the soul cages [01:52.28] These are the soul cages [01:56.67] These are the soul cages [02:01.22] [02:18.84] "I'll have a wager", the brave child spoke [02:22.36] The fisherman laughed, though disturbed at the joke [02:26.76] "You will drink what I drink, but you must equal me [02:31.24] If the drink leaves me standing [02:33.90] A soul should go free" [02:36.46] I'll have here a cask of most magical wine [02:40.91] A vintage that blessed every ship in the line [02:44.87] It's wrung from the blood of the sailors who died [02:50.13] Young white bodies adrift in the tide [02:54.48] What's in it for me, my pretty young thing? [02:59.41] Why should I whistle, when the caged bird sings? [03:03.04] If you lose a wager with the king of the sea [03:07.52] You'll spend the rest of forever in the cage with me [03:13.91] These are the soul cages [03:18.66] These are the soul cages [03:23.26] These are the soul cages [03:27.75] These are the soul cages [03:30.81] A body lies open in the fisherman's yard [03:34.67] Like the side of a ship where the iceberg rips [03:40.42] One less soul in the soul cages [03:45.09] One last curse on the fisherman's lips [03:50.43] These are the soul cages [03:54.92] These are the soul cages [03:59.47] These are the soul cages [04:04.29] These are the soul cages [04:08.80] These are the soul cages [04:13.21] These are the soul cages [04:18.22] And he dreamed of the ship on the sea [04:22.72] It would carry his father and he [04:27.20] To a place they could never be found [04:31.79] To a place far away from this town [04:37.07] A new castle ship without coals [04:41.07] They would sail to the island of souls [04:46.76] [05:08.44] These are the soul cages (these are the soul cages) [05:17.72] These are the soul cages (these are the soul cages) [05:26.87] These are the soul cages (these are the soul cages) [05:33.43] [05:36.11] These are the soul cages (these are the soul cages) [05:45.22] These are the soul cages [05:48.22]