Lyrics Rimeof The Ancient Mariner.lrc Iron Maiden
[id: tyjlgouk]
[ar: Iron Maiden]
[al: Powerslave]
[ti: Rimeof The Ancient Mariner]
[length: 13:34]
[00:32.09]Hear the rime of the ancient mariner
[00:33.73]See his eye as he stops one of three
[00:35.80]Mesmerizes one of the wedding guests
[00:38.06]Stay here and listen to the nightmares of the sea
[00:43.69]And the music plays on, as the bride passes by
[00:45.87]Caught by his spell and the mariner tells his tale
[00:51.89]Driven south to the land of the snow and ice
[00:54.04]To a place where nobody’s been
[00:55.90]Through the snow fog flies on the albatross
[00:57.81]Hailed in God’s name, hoping good luck it brings
[01:03.69]And the ship sails on, back to the north
[01:05.61]Through the fog and ice and the albatross follows on
[01:34.72]The mariner kills the bird of good omen
[01:38.40]His shipmates cry against what he’s done
[01:42.13]But when the fog clears, they justify him
[01:46.35]And make themselves a part of the crime
[01:49.80]Sailing on and on and north across the sea
[01:57.62]Sailing on and on and north ’til all is calm
[02:06.12]The albatross begins with its vengeance
[02:09.35]A terrible curse a thirst has begun
[02:13.42]His shipmates blame bad luck on the mariner
[02:17.26]About his neck, the dead bird is hung
[02:20.60]And the curse goes on and on at sea
[02:28.29]And the curse goes on and on for them and me
[02:35.95]”Day after day, day after day
[02:38.18]We stuck nor breath nor motion
[02:40.20]As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean
[02:43.75]Water, water everywhere and
[02:45.74]All the boards did shrink
[02:47.74]Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink.”
[03:03.34]There calls the mariner
[03:04.54]There comes a ship over the line
[03:09.08]But how can she sail with no wind in her sails and no tide?
[03:15.04]See… onward she comes
[03:19.61]Onward she nears out of the sun
[03:26.17]See, she has no crew
[03:31.72]She has no life, wait but here’s two
[03:38.92]Death and she life in death
[03:40.64]They throw their dice for the crew
[03:44.76]She wins the mariner and he belongs to her now
[03:50.47]Then, crew one by one
[03:55.39]They drop down dead, 200
[04:01.88]She, she, life in death
[04:06.82]She lets him live, her chosen one
[05:58.72]”One after one by the star dogged moon
[06:01.48]Too quick for groan or sigh
[06:04.88]Each turned his face with a ghastly pang
[06:08.70]And cursed me with his eye
[06:11.10]Four times fifty living men
[06:14.76](And I heard nor sigh nor groan)
[06:18.13]With heavy thump, a lifeless lump
[06:21.56]They dropped down one by one.”
[07:50.62]The curse it lives on in their eyes
[07:54.95]The mariner he wished he’d die
[07:59.55]Along with the sea creatures
[08:02.28]But they lived on, so did he
[08:08.97]And by the light of the moon
[08:13.96]He prays for their beauty not doom
[08:18.97]With heart he blesses them
[08:21.36]God’s creatures all of them too
[08:28.82]Then the spell starts to break
[08:32.71]The albatross falls from his neck
[08:38.05]Sinks down like lead into the sea
[08:43.04]Then down in falls comes the rain
[11:10.08]Hear the groans of the long dead seamen
[11:11.75]See them stir and they start to rise
[11:13.79]Bodies lifted by good spirits
[11:15.42]None of them speak and they’re lifeless in their eyes
[11:20.88]And revenge is still sought, penance starts again
[11:23.53]Cast into a trance and the nightmare carries on
[11:29.58]Now the curse is finally lifted
[11:31.65]And the mariner sights his home
[11:33.53]Spirits go from the long dead bodies
[11:35.37]Form their own light and the mariner’s left alone
[12:04.27]And then a boat came sailing towards him
[12:08.05]It was a joy he could not believe
[12:11.96]The pilot’s boat, his son and the hermit
[12:15.86]Penance of life will fall onto him
[12:19.35]And the ship it sinks like lead into the sea
[12:26.96]And the hermit shrives the mariner of his sins
[12:35.22]The mariner’s bound to tell of his story
[12:39.09]To tell this tale wherever he goes
[12:42.93]To teach God’s word by his own example
[12:46.65]That we must love all things that God made
[12:50.14]And the wedding guest’s a sad and wiser man
[12:57.68]And the tale goes on and on and on
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