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This Sunday Helen Vahdati’s Song Lyric Sunday theme is Soul.
There are a number of Songs that I would want to choose from but the lyrics in Soul Cages seem fitting for a day of remembrance. The many that gave their lives for the hope of freedom, it is ours now to take back and live as free souls. Who is the fisherman king today? There are too many to count. The lives lost for poor causes under subterfuge and guises. I pray for the day that the tsunami of solidarity rises from the depths and sweeps the cages clear freeing our lost souls.
Soul Cages – Sting (aka Gordon Sumner)
The boy child is locked in the fisherman’s yard
There’s a bloodless moon where the oceans die
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?
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
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 the 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 sailors who died
Young white body 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
Swim to the light
Swim to the light
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
Songwriters: Gordon Sumner
The Soul Cages lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
🤗 Thank you, Hélène! Cutie pie is being lazy and sleeping in!🤩
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Thank is a super song. It sure was a good choice Jordy.♥️
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Thank you, Hélène!💗
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❤🙂Happy Sunday to you dear Jordis.
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Happy Sunday, Hélène!💗🤗 Catching up today!!
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Good to see your smile and that cutie pie with you❤🙂
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I love Sting’s music. Listened to the Soul Cages CD a couple of weeks ago. Soul Cages great choice for the prompt!
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Thank you, dear! I love Sting’s music, always thought provoking.
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What a great song! Sting is an excellent choice. Thanks so much for sharing!
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Thank you, Helen! Your Song Lyric Sundays are great! Glad to join in on the fun!
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I love music so much and I was hoping SLS would become what it has. I’ve been pretty well absent for a month or so, but I do love the participation, and I especially love newcomers. 🙂 Thanks for joining!
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😊Glad to have you back!
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Great choice, great song 💜
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Thank you, Willow! I like Sting’s edge. A big f u to the establishment. It is one of those days.💗
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Yes indeed 💜
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