[ti:The Soul Cages] [ar:Sting] [al:The Soul Cages] [offset:0] [00:20.54]The boy child is locked in the fisherman's yard [00:24.98]There's a bloodless moon where the ocean died [00:28.01] [00:29.51]A shoal of nightstars hang fire in the nets [00:32.94]And the chaos of cages where the crayfish lie [00:38.18] [00:38.75]Where is the fisherman, where is the goat? [00:42.86]Where is the keeper in his carrion coat? [00:46.98]Eclipse on the moon when the dark bird flies [00:51.48] [00:52.41]Where is the child with his father's eyes? [00:56.63] [01:06.49]He's the king of the ninth world [01:08.67] [01:10.54]The twisted son of the fog bells toll [01:14.20]In each and every lobster cage [01:19.01]A tortured human soul [01:21.51] [01:24.19]These are the souls of broken factories [01:28.18] [01:28.74]The subject slaves of the broken crown [01:31.86] [01:33.36]The dead accounting of old guilty promises [01:37.54] [01:38.05]These are the souls of the broken town [01:42.35] [01:42.97]These are the soul cages [01:46.03] [01:47.96]These are the soul cages [01:50.58] [01:52.58]These are the soul cages [01:55.26] [01:56.95]These are the soul cages [01:59.63] [02:19.11]'I have a wager' the brave child spoke [02:22.53]The fisherman laughed, though disturbed at the joke [02:26.96]'You will drink what I drink but you must equal me [02:31.64]And if the drink leaves me standing, [02:34.01]A soul shall go free' [02:36.70]'I have here a cask of most magical wine [02:40.44]A vintage that blessed every ship in the line [02:45.18]It's wrung from the blood of the sailor's who died [02:49.93]Young white bodies adrift in the tide' [02:54.79]'And what's in it for me my pretty young thing? [02:59.66]Why should I whistle, when the caged bird sings? [03:03.23]If you lose a wager with the king of the sea [03:07.78]You'll spend the rest of forever in the cage with me' [03:12.02] [03:14.51]These are the soul cages [03:17.57] [03:18.88]These are the soul cages [03:21.63] [03:23.37]These are the soul cages [03:26.49] [03:27.93]These are the soul cages [03:31.61]A body lies open in the fisherman's yard [03:35.10]Like the side of a ship where the iceberg rips [03:39.23] [03:40.68]One less soul in the soul cages [03:43.71] [03:45.19]One last curse on the fisherman's lips [03:49.25] [03:50.81]These are the soul cages [03:53.88] [03:55.13]These are the soul cages [03:58.61] [03:59.86]These are the soul cages [04:03.05] [04:04.17]These are the soul cages [04:07.48] [04:08.79]These are the soul cages [04:11.98] [04:13.15]These are the soul cages [04:16.88] [04:18.70]He dreamed of the ship on the sea [04:22.12] [04:23.07]It would carry his father and he [04:27.75]To a place they could never be found [04:31.23] [04:32.18]To a place far away from this town [04:36.22] [04:37.36]A Newcastle ship without coals [04:40.78] [04:41.40]They would sail to the island of souls