The Soul Cages

	  		
Intro:
Gm Bb C Gm F C 
Gm Bb C Gm F C 


Verse 
Gm                             Bb               C 
The boy child is locked in the fisherman's yard 
Gm                                        Bb   C 
There's a bloodless moon where the oceans die 
Gm                          Bb               C 
A shoal of night stars hang fire in the nets 
         Gm                     Bb        C 
And the chaos of cages where the crayfish lie 
Gm                      Bb               C 
Where is the fisherman, where is the goat, 
Gm                         Bb         C 
Where is the keeper in his carrion coat? 
   Gm                        Bb          C 
Eclipse on the moon when the dark bird flies 
Gm                          Bb        C 
Where is the child with his father's eyes? 

C Bb 

Bridge 
Gm                              Bb C F Gm 
He's the king of the ninth world 
Gm                                 Bb C F Gm 
The twisted son of the fog bells' toll 
Gm                           Bb C F  Gm 
In each and every lobster cage,      a tortured human soul 


Pre-Chorus 
Bb                         Bbsus2 
These are the souls of the broken factories 
Bb                        Bbsus2 
The subject slaves of the broken crown 
Bb                     Bbsus2 
The dead accounting of old guilty promises 
Bb                         C 
These are the souls of the broken town 


 
Gm            Bb        C  
These are the soul cages 
Gm            F         C 
These are the soul cages 
Gm            Bb        C  
These are the soul cages 
Gm            Bb        C  
These are the soul cages 



Am C Bb 
Am C Bb 


Verse 
Am                             C      D G 
'I have a wager,' the brave child spoke 
Am                             C               D   G 
The fisherman laughed though disturbed at the joke  
Am                             C               D    G 
'You will drink what I drink  But you must equal me,  
Am                                   C               D 
And 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             D 
A vintage that blessed every ship in the line 
Am                  C             D 
It's wrung from the blood of the sailors who died 
Am                 C             D 
Young white bodies adrift in the tide' 
Am                           C             D 
'And what's in it for me, my pretty young thing? 
Am                            C          D 
Why should I whistle when the caged bird sings? 
Am                           C              D 
If you lose a wager with the king of the sea 
Am                              C                  D 
You'll spend the rest of forever in the cage with me' 


Am            C         D 
These are the soul cages 
Am            C         D 
These are the soul cages 
Am            C         D 
These are the soul cages 
Am            C         D 
These are the soul cages 



Bridge 
Am                        C         D 
A body lies open in the fisherman's yard like 
Am            C         D 
The side of a ship where the iceberg rips 
Am            C                D 
One less soul in the soul cages 
Am                     G         D 
One last curse on the fisherman's lips 

 
Am            C         D 
These are the soul cages 
Am            C         D 
These are the soul cages 
Am            C         D 
These are the soul cages 
Am            C         D 
These are the soul cages 
Am            C         D 
These are the soul cages
 


Outro 
Dsus2            A 
And he dreamed of a ship on the sea 
Dsus2            A 
It would carry his father and he 
Dsus2            A 
To a place they could never be found 
Dsus2            A 
To a place far away from this town 
Dsus2            A 
A Newcastle ship with no coals 
Dsus2            A 
They would sail to the island of souls 

B Bsus2 

Chorus Outro 
F#m           A         B 
These are the soul cages 
F#m           A         B 
These are the soul cages 
F#m           A         B 
These are the soul cages 
F#m           A         B 
These are the soul cages