The boy child is locked in the fisherman's yard
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There's a bloodless moon where the ocean died
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A shoal of nightstars hang fire in the nets
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And the chaos of cages where the crayfish lie
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Where is the fisherman, where is the goat?
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Where is the keeper in his carrion coat?
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Eclipse on the moon when the dark bird flies
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Where is the child with his father's eyes?
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There are the soul cages
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These are the soul cages
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He's the king of the ninth world
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The twisted son of the fog bells toll
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In each and every lobster cage
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A tortured human soul
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These are the souls of broken factories
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The subject slaves of the broken crown
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The dead accounting of old guilty promises
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These are the souls of the broken town
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These are the soul cages
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These are the soul cages
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These are the soul cages
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These are the soul cages
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'I have a wager' the brave child spoke
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The fisherman laughed, though disturbed at the joke
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'You will drink what I drink but you must equal me
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And if the drink leaves me standing,
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A soul shall go free'
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'I have here a cask of most magical wine
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A vintage that blessed every ship in the line
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It's wrung from the blood of the sailor's who died
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Young white bodies adrift in the tide'
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'And what's in it for me my pretty young thing?
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Why should I whistle, when the caged bird sings?
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If you lose a wager with the king of the sea
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You'll spend the rest of forever in the cage with me'
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These are the soul cages
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These are the soul cages
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These are the soul cages
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These are the soul cages
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A body lies open in the fisherman's yard
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Like the side of a ship where the iceberg rips
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One less soul in the soul cages
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One last curse on the fisherman's lips
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These are the soul cages
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These are the soul cages
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These are the soul cages
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These are the soul cages
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Swim to the light Swim to the light
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He dreamed of the ship on the sea
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It would carry his father and he
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To a place they could never be found
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To a place far away from this town
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A Newcastle ship without coals
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They would sail to the island of souls
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The Soul Cages
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