Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Rime of the Ancient Mariner, artist - Iron Maiden.
Date of issue: 15.11.2018
Song language: English
Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
Hear the rime of the ancient mariner |
See his eye as he stops one of three |
Mesmerises 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. |
Sailing on and on and north across the sea |
Sailing on and on and north 'til all is calm. |
The albatross begins with its 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. |
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 facce 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 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 lifelesss 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 fromhe 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 sinks like lead into the sea |
And the hermit shrieves 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 thaat God made. |
And the wedding guest’s a sad and wiser man |
And the tale goes on and on and on. |