The Soul Cages

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Gm Bb C Gm F C

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

C Bb

[Verse]
Gm                              Bb
He's the king of the ninth world
 C F Gm

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

[Pre-Chorus]
Bb                         Bbsus4
These are the souls of the broken 
factories
Bb                        Bbsus4
The subject slaves of the broken 
crown
Bb                     Bbsus4
The dead accounting of old guilty 
promises
Bb                         C
These are the souls of the broken 
town

[Chorus]
Gm            Bb        C
These are the soul cages
Gm            F         C
These are the soul cages
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Gm            Bb        C
These are the soul cages
Gm            Bb        C
These are the soul cages

[Instrumental]
Am C Bb
Am C Bb

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

[Chorus]
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

[Verse]
Am                        C      
A body lies open in the 
   D
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         
One last curse on the fisherman's 
D
lips

[Chorus]
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

[Post-Chorus]
Dmaj7                          A
And he dreamed of a ship on the sea
                               Dmaj7
That would carry his father and he
Dmaj7                          F#m
To a place they could never be found
To a place far away from this 
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town
                          Bm7
A Newcastle ship without coals
They would sail to the island of 
F#m
souls

F#m  B

[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