Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (Live In New Jersey 14/3/08)-Iron Maiden

[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