Sting - language of birds

이 노래는 보이지 않는 지하 강과 영혼의 섬을 통해 삶의 고난을 잊는 이상적인 세계를 이야기한다
주인공의 아버지는 비둘기를 기르며 자신의 영혼을 억압당하고, 결국 생을 마감할 때까지 진정한 자유를 찾지 못한다
결국, 그는 자신이 만든 감옥에 갇힌 채로 남는다는 메시지를 담고 있다

They say there's an underground river
That none of us can see
And it flows through winding tunnels
On its way to a tide-less sea
And across that sea is an island
A paradise we are told
Where the toils of life are forgotten
And they call it the Island of Souls
For only a soul can go there
A soul that's been set free
From the confines of a working life
To find eternity
Your old man had a cage for his pigeons
But that's really where he kept his soul
And when he watched them fly he would see himself
Least that's how it was told
But his soul was still trapped in the cage son
While the birds they soared to the sky
But he couldn't find his own way out
Least not until the day he died
Oh, a man builds a cage with the tools he is given
His casket is sealed with a riveter's gun
This solitary madness is where he is driven
It was him who was trapped in the soul cage, son
It was him that was trapped in the soul cage