Lyrics Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (Live).lrc Iron Maiden
[id: pwnmwpgm]
[ar: Iron Maiden]
[al: Live After Death]
[ti: Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (Live)]
[length: 13:08]
[00:18.77]Hear the rime of the Ancient Mariner
[00:20.58]See his eyes as he stops one of three
[00:22.45]Mesmerises one of the wedding guests
[00:24.46]Stay here and listen to the nightmares
[00:26.26]Of the sea.
[00:30.15]And the music plays on, as the bride passes by
[00:32.06]Caught by his spell and
[00:33.32]The Mariner tells his tale.
[00:38.40]Driven south to the land of the snow and ice
[00:40.43]To a place where nobody’s been
[00:42.56]Through the snow fog flies on the albatross
[00:44.15]Hailed in God’s name,
[00:45.59]Hoping good luck it brings.
[00:49.83]And the ship sails on, back to the north
[00:51.72]Through the fog and ice and
[00:53.04]The albatross follows on
[01:21.40]The mariner kills the bird of good omen
[01:25.18]His shipmates cry against what he’s done
[01:29.18]But when the fog clears, they justify him
[01:33.23]And make themselves part of the crime.
[01:35.94]Sailing on and on and North across the sea
[01:43.82]Sailing on and on and North ’til all is calm.
[01:52.51]The albatross begins with its vengeance
[01:56.49]A terrible curse a thirst has begun
[01:59.82]His shipmates blame the bad luck on the Mariner
[02:03.64]About his neck, the dead bird is hung.
[02:06.97]And the curse goes on and on and on at sea,
[02:14.46]And the thirst goes on and on for them and me.
[02:22.62]”Day after day, day after day,
[02:24.22]We stuck nor breath nor motion
[02:26.28]As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean
[02:30.60]Water, water everywhere and
[02:32.01]All the boards did shrink
[02:33.94]Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink.”
[02:49.26]There, calls the Mariner,
[02:50.66]There comes a ship over the line
[02:55.30]But how can she sail with no wind
[02:57.13]In her sails and no tide.
[03:01.28]See… onward she comes
[03:06.59]Onward she nears, out of the sun
[03:13.26]See… she has no crew
[03:18.64]She has no life, wait but there’s two
[03:24.93]Death and she life in Death,
[03:26.95]They throw their dice for the crew
[03:30.97]She wins the Mariner and he belongs to her now.
[03:36.76]Then… crew one by one
[03:42.10]They drop down dead, two hundred men
[03:48.98]She… She, Life in Death,
[03:54.34]She lets him live, her chosen one.
[05:45.36]”One after one by the star dogged moon,
[05:48.10]Too quick for groan or sigh
[05:50.98]Each turned his face with a ghastly pang,
[05:54.59]And cursed me with his eye
[05:57.92]Four times fifty living men
[06:01.07](And I heard nor sigh nor groan),
[06:04.51]With heavy thump, a lifeless lump,
[06:07.56]They dropped down one by one.”
[07:38.04]The curse it lives on in their eyes
[07:41.25]The Mariner he wished he’d die
[07:45.78]Along with the sea creatures
[07:48.28]But they lived on, so did he.
[07:55.45]And by the light of the moon
[08:00.58]He prays for their beauty not doom
[08:04.97]With heart he blesses them
[08:07.39]God’s creatures all of them too
[08:14.43]Then the spell starts to break
[08:19.03]The albatross falls from his neck
[08:25.09]Sinks down like lead into the sea
[08:28.46]Then down in falls comes the rain.
[10:56.92]Hear the groans of the long dead seamen
[10:57.77]See them stir and they start to rise
[10:59.32]Bodies lifted by good spirits
[11:01.06]None of them speak
[11:02.00]And they’re lifeless in their eyes.
[11:06.88]And revenge is still sought, penance starts again
[11:10.53]Cast into a trance and the nightmare carries on.
[11:16.77]Now the curse is finally lifted
[11:18.67]And the Mariner sights his home
[11:19.62]Spirits go from the long dead bodies
[11:21.30]Form their own light and
[11:23.04]The Mariner’s left alone.
[11:51.33]And then a boat came sailing towards him
[11:54.17]It was a joy he could not believe
[11:58.22]The pilots boat, his son and the hermit.
[12:01.93]Penance of life will fall onto Him.
[12:05.24]And the ship sinks like lead into the sea
[12:12.93]And the hermit shrieves the Mariner of his sins.
[12:21.39]The Mariner’s bound to tell of his story
[12:25.19]To tell his tale wherever he goes
[12:29.60]To teach God’s word by his own example
[12:32.86]That we must love all things that God made.
[12:35.77]And the wedding guest’s a sad and wiser man
[12:46.23]And the tale goes on and on and on.
[13:05.34]Year of Release: 1982