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Iron Maiden - Rime Of The Ancient Mariner |
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Hear the rime of the Ancient Mariner |
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See his eye as he stops one of three |
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Mesmerises one of the wedding guests |
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Stay here and listen the nightmares of the Sea. |
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And the music plays on, as the bride passes by |
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Caught by his spell and the Mariner tells his tale. |
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Driven south to the land of the snow and ice |
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To a place where nobody's been |
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Through the snow fog flies on the albatross |
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Hailed in God's name, hoping good luck it brings. |
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And the ship sails on, back to the North |
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Through the fog and ice and the albatross follows on |
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The mariner kills the bird of good omen |
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His shipmates cry against what he's done |
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But when the fog clears, they justify him |
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And make themselves a part of the crime. |
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Sailing on and on and North across the sea |
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Sailing on and on and North 'til all is calm |
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The albatross begins with its vengeance |
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A terrible curse a thirst has begun |
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His shipmates blame bad luck on the Mariner |
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About his neck, the dead bird is hung. |
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And the curse goes on and on at sea |
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And the curse goes on and on for them and me. |
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"Day after day, day after day, |
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we stuck nor breath nor motion |
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As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean |
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Water, water everywhere and all the boards did shrink |
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Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink." |
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There, calls the Mariner, |
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there comes a ship over the line |
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But how can she sail with no wind in her sails and no tide. |
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See...onward she comes |
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Onward she nears, out of the sun |
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See...she has no crew |
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She has no life, wait but there's two. |
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Death and she Life in Death. |
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they throw their dice for the crew |
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She wins the Mariner and he belong to her now. |
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Then...crew one by one |
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They drop down dead, two hundred men |
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She...She Life in Death. |
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She lets him live, her chosen one. |
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"One after one by the star dogged moon, |
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too quick for groan or sigh |
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each turned his face with a ghastly pang, |
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and cursed me with his eye |
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four times fifty living men |
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(and I heard nor sigh nor groan), |
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with heavy thump, a lifeless lump, |
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they dropped down one by one." |
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The curse it lives on in their eyes |
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The Mariner he wished he'd die |
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Along with the sea creatures |
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But they lived on, so did he. |
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And by the light of the moon |
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He prays for their beauty not doom |
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With heart he blesses them |
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God's creatures all of them too. |
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Then the spell starts to break |
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The albatross falls from his neck |
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Sinks down like lead into the Sea |
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Then down in falls comes the rain. |
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Hear the groans of the long dead seamen |
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See them stir and they start to rise |
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Bodies lifted by good spirits |
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None of them speak and they're lifeless in their eyes. |
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And revenge is still sought, penance starts again |
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Cast into a trance and the nightmare carries on. |
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Now the curse is finally lifted |
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And the Mariner sights his home |
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Spirits go from the long dead bodies |
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Form their light and the Mariner's left alone. |
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And then a boat came sailing towards him |
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It was a joy he could not believe |
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The Pilot's boat, his son and the hermit. |
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Penance of life will fall onto Him. |
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And the ship it sinks like lead into the sea |
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And the hermit shrieves the mariner of his sins. |
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The Mariner's bound to tell of his story |
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To tell his tale wherever he goes |
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To teach God's word by his own example |
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That we must love all things that God made. |
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And the wedding guest's a sad and wiser man |
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And the tale goes on and on and on...and on |