[00:00.00]Iron Maiden - Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
[00:16.50]Hear the rime of the Ancient Mariner
[00:18.50]See his eye as he stops one of three
[00:21.50]Mesmerises one of the wedding guests
[00:23.50]Stay here and listen the nightmares of the Sea.
[00:28.50]And the music plays on, as the bride passes by
[00:31.50]Caught by his spell and the Mariner tells his tale.
[00:38.50]Driven south to the land of the snow and ice
[00:39.50]To a place where nobody's been
[00:42.50]Through the snow fog flies on the albatross
[00:44.50]Hailed in God's name, hoping good luck it brings.
[00:50.50]And the ship sails on, back to the North
[00:52.50]Through the fog and ice and the albatross follows on
[01:24.50]The mariner kills the bird of good omen
[01:28.50]His shipmates cry against what he's done
[01:32.50]But when the fog clears, they justify him
[01:37.50]And make themselves a part of the crime.
[01:40.50]Sailing on and on and North across the sea
[01:49.50]Sailing on and on and North 'til all is calm
[01:58.50]The albatross begins with its vengeance
[02:03.50]A terrible curse a thirst has begun
[02:07.50]His shipmates blame bad luck on the Mariner
[02:11.50]About his neck, the dead bird is hung.
[02:15.50]And the curse goes on and on at sea
[02:23.50]And the curse goes on and on for them and me.
[02:32.50]"Day after day, day after day,
[02:34.50]we stuck nor breath nor motion
[02:36.50]As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean
[02:41.50]Water, water everywhere and all the boards did shrink
[02:45.50]Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink."
[03:01.50]There, calls the Mariner,
[03:03.50]there comes a ship over the line
[03:07.50]But how can she sail with no wind in her sails and no tide.
[03:13.50]See...onward she comes
[03:18.50]Onward she nears, out of the sun
[03:25.50]See...she has no crew
[03:31.50]She has no life, wait but there's two.
[03:37.50]Death and she Life in Death.
[03:39.50]they throw their dice for the crew
[03:43.50]She wins the Mariner and he belong to her now.
[03:49.50]Then...crew one by one
[03:54.50]They drop down dead, two hundred men
[04:01.50]She...She Life in Death.
[04:06.50]She lets him live, her chosen one.
[05:53.50]"One after one by the star dogged moon,
[05:57.50]too quick for groan or sigh
[06:00.50]each turned his face with a ghastly pang,
[06:04.50]and cursed me with his eye
[06:07.50]four times fifty living men
[06:11.50](and I heard nor sigh nor groan),
[06:14.50]with heavy thump, a lifeless lump,
[06:17.50]they dropped down one by one."
[07:43.50]The curse it lives on in their eyes
[07:48.50]The Mariner he wished he'd die
[07:53.50]Along with the sea creatures
[07:56.50]But they lived on, so did he.
[08:03.50]And by the light of the moon
[08:08.50]He prays for their beauty not doom
[08:13.50]With heart he blesses them
[08:16.50]God's creatures all of them too.
[08:23.50]Then the spell starts to break
[08:28.50]The albatross falls from his neck
[08:33.50]Sinks down like lead into the Sea
[08:38.50]Then down in falls comes the rain.
[11:13.50]Hear the groans of the long dead seamen
[11:15.50]See them stir and they start to rise
[11:17.50]Bodies lifted by good spirits
[11:19.50]None of them speak and they're lifeless in their eyes.
[11:26.50]And revenge is still sought, penance starts again
[11:28.50]Cast into a trance and the nightmare carries on.
[11:35.50]Now the curse is finally lifted
[11:37.50]And the Mariner sights his home
[11:39.50]Spirits go from the long dead bodies
[11:41.50]Form their light and the Mariner's left alone.
[12:13.50]And then a boat came sailing towards him
[12:17.50]It was a joy he could not believe
[12:22.50]The Pilot's boat, his son and the hermit.
[12:26.50]Penance of life will fall onto Him.
[12:29.50]And the ship it sinks like lead into the sea
[12:38.50]And the hermit shrieves the mariner of his sins.
[12:47.50]The Mariner's bound to tell of his story
[12:51.50]To tell his tale wherever he goes
[12:56.50]To teach God's word by his own example
[13:00.50]That we must love all things that God made.
[13:03.50]And the wedding guest's a sad and wiser man
[13:12.50]And the tale goes on and on and on...and on