Sting - The Soul Cages, akkorde, Text

Gm Bb CThe boy child is locked in the fisherman's yard

Gm Bb CThere's a bloodless moon where the oceans die

Gm Bb CA shoal of night stars hang fire in the nets

Gm Bb CAnd the chaos of cages where the crayfish lie

Gm Bb CWhere is the fisherman, where is the goat,

Gm Bb CWhere is the keeper in his carrion coat?

Gm Bb CEclipse on the moon when the dark bird flies

Gm Bb CWhere is the child with his father's eyes?

Gm Bb C F GmHe's the king of the ninth world

Gm Bb C F GmThe twisted son of the fog bells' toll

Gm Bb C F GmIn each and every lobster cage, a tortured human soul

Bb CThese are the souls of the broken town

Gm Bb CThese are the soul cages

Gm F CThese are the soul cages

Gm Bb CThese are the soul cages

Am C D G'I have a wager,' the brave child spoke

Am C D GThe fisherman laughed though disturbed at the joke

Am C D G'You will drink what I drink But you must equal me,

Am C DAnd if the drink leaves me standing, A soul shall Go free'

Am C D'I have here a cask of most magical wine

Am C DA vintage that blessed every ship in the line

Am C DIt's wrung from the blood of the sailors who died

Am C DYoung white bodies adrift in the tide'

Am C D'And what's in it for me, my pretty young thing?

Am C DWhy should I whistle when the caged bird sings?

Am C DIf you lose a wager with the king of the sea

Am C DYou'll spend the rest of forever in the cage with me'

Am C DThese are the soul cages

Am C DA body lies open in the fisherman's yard like

Am C DThe side of a ship where the iceberg rips

Am C DOne less soul in the soul cages

Am G DOne last curse on the fisherman's lips

Am C DThese are the soul cages

Dsus2 AAnd he dreamed of a ship on the sea

Dsus2 AIt would carry his father and he

Dsus2 ATo a place they could never be found

Dsus2 ATo a place far away from this town

Dsus2 AA Newcastle ship with no coals

Dsus2 AThey would sail to the island of souls

F#m A BThese are the soul cages