專輯：25 週年史詩精選
(The Best Of 25 Years)
歌曲：The Soul Cages
(Album Version)
The boy child is locked
in the fisherman's yard
There's a bloodless moon
where the ocean died
A shoal of nightstars
hang fire in the nets
And the chaos of cages
where the crayfish lie
Where is the fisherman
where is the goat
Where is the keeper
in his carrion coat
Eclipse on the moon
when the dark bird flies
Where is the child
with his father's eyes
He's the king of
the ninth world
The twisted son
of the fog bells toll
In each and every lobster cage
A tortured human soul
These are the souls
of broken factories
The subject slaves
of the broken crown
The dead accounting
of old guilty promises
These are the souls
of the broken town
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
I have a wager' the brave
child spoke
The fisherman laughed
though disturbed at the joke
'You will drink what I drink
but you must equal me
And if the drink
leaves me standing
A soul shall go free
I have here a cask
of most magical wine
A vintage that blessed
every ship in the line
It's wrung from the blood
of the sailor's who died
Young white bodies adrift
in the tide
And what's in it for me
my pretty young thing
Why should I whistle
when the caged bird sings
If you lose a wager
with the king of the sea
You'll spend the rest of
forever in the cage with me
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
A body lies open
in the fisherman's yard
Like the side of a ship
where the iceberg rips
One less soul
in the soul cages
One last curse
on the fisherman's lips
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
He dreamed of the ship
on the sea
It would carry
his father and he
To a place they could
never be found
To a place far away
from this town
A Newcastle ship without coals
They would sail
to the island of souls
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
