Sting

The Soul Cages(Chords)

Sting

Key: Gm

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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

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