Lyrics Empire Of The Clouds.lrc Iron Maiden
[id: uwhtgwpv]
[ar: Iron Maiden]
[al: The Book of Souls]
[ti: Empire of the Clouds]
[length: 18:01]
[02:06.71]To ride the storm to an empire of the clouds
[02:12.79]To ride the storm they climbed aboard their silver ghost
[02:21.13]
[02:23.91]To ride the storm to a kingdom that will come
[02:30.42]To ride the storm and damn the rest… oblivion
[02:40.40]Royalty and dignitaries brandy and cigars
[02:47.63]Grey lady giant of the skies
[02:50.65]You hold them in your arms
[02:53.70]The millionth chance they laughed
[02:56.42]To take down His Majesty’s craft
[02:59.72]To India they say, magic carpet float away
[03:05.75]An October fateful day…
[03:09.89]
[03:37.72]Mist is in the trees
[03:40.36]Stone sweats with the dew
[03:43.50]The morning sunrise red before the blue
[03:50.59]Hanging at the mast
[03:53.65]Waiting for command
[03:56.68]His Majesty’s Airship, the R101
[04:03.89]She’s the biggest vessel built by man, a giant of the skies
[04:09.85]For all you unbelievers the Titanic fits inside
[04:16.35]Drum roll tight her canvas skin silvered in the sun
[04:22.34]Never tested with the fury with the beating yet to come
[04:28.15]The fury yet to come
[04:31.79]
[04:34.14]In the gathering gloom the storm rising in the west
[04:39.99]The coxswain stared into the plunging weather glass
[04:48.54]We must go now
[04:52.01]We must take our chance with fate
[04:56.27]We must go now
[04:58.12]For a politician, he can’t be late
[05:05.52]The airship crew awake for thirty hours at full stretch
[05:11.35]But the ship is in their backbone
[05:14.47]Every sinew every inch
[05:17.67]She never flew at full speed
[05:20.90]A trial never done
[05:23.88]Her fragile outer cover
[05:26.53]Her achilles would become
[05:29.92]An achilles yet to come
[05:33.58]Sailors of the sky
[05:36.58]A hardened breed
[05:40.80]Loyal to the king and an airship creed
[05:47.00]The engines drum
[05:50.16]The telegraph sounds
[05:53.23]Release the cords that bind us to the ground
[05:59.76]Said the coxswain “Sir, she’s heavy”
[06:02.92]”She’ll never make this flight”
[06:06.95]Said the captain “Damn the cargo”
[06:09.55]”We’ll be on our way tonight”
[06:13.28]Groundlings cheered in wonder
[06:16.17]As she backed off from the mast
[06:19.36]Baptizing them her water
[06:22.27]From the ballast fore and aft
[06:25.46]Now she slips into our past
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[12:33.32]Fighting the wind as it rolls you
[12:36.21]Feeling the diesels that push you along
[12:39.15]Watching the channel below you
[12:42.74]Lower and lower into the night
[12:45.98]Lights are passing below you
[12:48.95]Northern France asleep in their beds
[12:52.09]Storm is raging around you
[12:54.92]A million to one, that’s what he said
[12:59.45]
[13:40.98]Reaper standing beside her
[13:43.73]With his scythe cuts to the bone
[13:45.58]Panic to make a decision
[13:48.15]Experienced men asleep in their graves
[13:51.23]Her cover is ripped and she’s drowning
[13:54.27]Rain is flooding into the hull
[13:57.27]Bleeding to death and she’s falling
[14:00.35]Lifting gas is draining away
[14:05.16]
[15:12.46]”We’re down lads” came the cry
[15:15.66]Bow plunging from the sky
[15:18.75]Three thousand horses silent as the ship began to die
[15:25.16]The flares to guide her path ignited at the last
[15:31.62]The empire of the clouds just ashes in our past
[15:38.19]Just ashes at the last
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[16:06.43]Here lie their dreams as I stand in the sun
[16:11.65]On the ground where they built
[16:14.74]And the engines did run
[16:18.68]To the moon and the stars
[16:23.43]Now what have we done
[16:26.02]Oh the dreamers may die but the dreams live on
[16:33.97]
[16:39.44]Dreams live on…
[16:45.50]Dreams live on…
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[17:19.48]Now a shadow on a hill
[17:22.77]The angel of the east
[17:26.22]The empire of the clouds may rest in peace
[17:29.13]And in a country churchyard
[17:32.22]Laid head to the mast
[17:36.71]Eight and forty souls
[17:39.29]Who came to die in France
[17:44.02]Year of Release: 2015