Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Lyrics - Powerslave - Iron Maiden

Hear the rime of the ancient mariner 

See his eye as he stops one of three 

Mesmerizes one of the wedding guests 

Stay here and listen to the nightmares of the sea. 

And the music plays on, as the bride passes by 

Caught by his spell and the mariner tells his tale. 

Driven south to the land of the snow and ice 

To a place where nobody's been 

Through the snow fog flies on the albatross 

Hailed in God's name, hoping good luck it brings. 

And the ship sails on, back to the North 

Through the fog and ice and the albatross follows on. 

The mariner kills the bird of good omen 

His shipmates cry against what he's done 

But when the fog clears, they justify him 

And make themselves a part of the crime. 

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Sailing on and on and north across the sea 

Sailing on and on and north 'til all is calm. 

The albatross begins with it's vengeance 

A terrible curse a thirst has begun 

His shipmates blame bad luck on the mariner 

About his neck, the dead bird is hung. 

And the curse goes on and on at sea 

And the curse goes on and on for them and me. 

"Day after day, day after day, 

We stuck nor breath nor motion 

As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean 

Water, water everywhere and 

All the boards did shrink 

Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink." 

There calls the mariner 

There comes a ship over the line 

BUt how can she sail with no wind in her sails and no tide? 

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See... onward she comes 

Onward she nears out of the sun 

See, she has no crew 

She has no life, wait but here's two. 

Death and she Life in Death, 

They throw their dice for the crew 

She wins the mariner and he belongs to her now. 

Then, crew one by one 

They drop down dead, two hundred men 

She, she, Life in Death. 

She lets him live, her chosen one. 

"One after one by the star dogged moon, 

Too quick for groan or sigh 

Each turned his face with a ghastly pang 

And cursed me with his eye 

Four times fifty living men 

(And I heard nor sigh nor groan) 

With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, 

They dropped down one by one." 

The curse it lives on in their eyes 

The mariner he wished he'd die 

Along with the sea creatures 

But they lived on, so did he. 

And by the light of the moon 

He prays for their beauty not doom 

With heart he blesses them 

God's creatures all of them too. 

Then the spell starts to break 

The albatross falls from his neck 

Sinks down like lead into the sea 

Then down in falls comes the rain. 

Hear the groans of the long dead seamen 

See them stir and they start to rise 

Bodies lifted by good spirits 

None of them speak and they're lifeless in their eyes 

And revenge is still sought, penance starts again 

Cast into a trance and the nightmare carries on. 

Now the curse is finally lifted 

And the mariner sights his home 

Spirits go from the long dead bodies 

Form their own light and the mariner's left alone. 

And then a boat came sailing towards him 

It was a joy he could not believe 

The pilot's boat, his son and the hermit, 

Penance of life will fall onto him. 

And the ship it sinks like lead into the sea 

And the hermit shrives the mariner of his sins. 

The mariner's bound to tell of his story 

To tell this tale wherever he goes 

To teach God's word by his own example 

That we must love all things that God made. 

And the wedding guest's a sad and wiser man 

And the tale goes on and on and on.