[ Предположительная тональность: C ] Fm C# B Fm G B Fm C# B Fm G B [Verse] Fm C# B The boy child is locked in the fisherman's yard Fm C# B There's a bloodless moon where the oceans die Fm C# B A shoal of night stars hang fire in the nets Fm C# B And the chaos of cages where the crayfish lie Fm C# B Where is the fisherman, where is the goat, Fm C# B Where is the keeper in his carrion coat? Fm C# B Eclipse on the moon when the dark bird flies Fm C# B Where is the child with his father's eyes? B C# [Bridge] Fm C# B G Fm He's the king of the ninth world Fm C# B G Fm The twisted son of the fog bells' toll Fm C# B G Fm In each and every lobster cage, a tortured human soul [Pre-Chorus] C# Bbsus2 These are the souls of the broken factories C# Bbsus2 The subject slaves of the broken crown C# Bbsus2 The dead accounting of old guilty promises C# B These are the souls of the broken town [Chorus] Fm C# B These are the soul cages Fm G B These are the soul cages Fm C# B These are the soul cages Fm C# B These are the soul cages Bm B C# Bm B C# [Verse] Bm B F F 'I have a wager,' the brave child spoke Bm B F F The fisherman laughed though disturbed at the joke Bm B F F 'You will drink what I drink But you must equal me, Bm B F And if the drink leaves me standing, A soul shall Go free' Bm B F 'I have here a cask of most magical wine Bm B F A vintage that blessed every ship in the line Bm B F It's wrung from the blood of the sailors who died Bm B F Young white bodies adrift in the tide' Bm B F 'And what's in it for me, my pretty young thing? Bm B F Why should I whistle when the caged bird sings? Bm B F If you lose a wager with the king of the sea Bm B F You'll spend the rest of forever in the cage with me' [Chorus] Bm B F These are the soul cages Bm B F These are the soul cages Bm B F These are the soul cages Bm B F These are the soul cages [Bridge] Bm B F A body lies open in the fisherman's yard like Bm B F The side of a ship where the iceberg rips Bm B F One less soul in the soul cages Bm F F One last curse on the fisherman's lips [Chorus] Bm B F These are the soul cages Bm B F These are the soul cages Bm B F These are the soul cages Bm B F These are the soul cages Bm B F These are the soul cages Fsus2 B And he dreamed of a ship on the sea Fsus2 B It would carry his father and he Fsus2 B To a place they could never be found Fsus2 B To a place far away from this town Fsus2 B A Newcastle ship with no coals Fsus2 B They would sail to the island of souls C Csus2 [Chorus Outro] G#m B C These are the soul cages G#m B C These are the soul cages G#m B C These are the soul cages G#m B C These are the soul cages