Sting - The Soul Cages: Guitar Chords
Learn to play "The Soul Cages" on your guitar with our chord guide. This page provides everything you need to perform this song on the guitar, including lyrics integrated with chords, chord diagrams, and a key transposer to match your vocal range.
For easier playing, use our Simplify Chords feature to remove difficult chords like barre.
Gm A# C 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? Gm A# C F Gm He's the king of the ninth world Gm A# C F Gm The twisted son of the fog bells' toll Gm A# C F Gm In each and every lobster cage, a tortured human soul A# A#sus4 These are the souls of the broken factories A# A#sus4 The subject slaves of the broken crown A# A#sus4 The dead accounting of old guilty promises A# C These are the souls of the broken town Chorus: Gm A# C These are the soul cages Gm A# C These are the soul cages Gm A# C These are the soul cages Gm A# C 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 Chorus 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 Chorus These are the soul cages And 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 Chorus You can simplify chords by removing barre | TransposeReset Font SizeReset Guitar Chord DiagramsA#  A#sus4  C  F  Gm  Here you can see detailed diagrams for each guitar chord used in the song. Utilize our key transposer to adjust the chords to a key that better fits your singing range. Simply select the desired key, and the chords throughout this page will update automatically, ensuring you can play and sing comfortably. |
If you are also interested in learning how to play "The Soul Cages" on the ukulele, check out the chords on our sister site: Ukulele Chords for "The Soul Cages" by Sting.