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 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 Thirst 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 There'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

[[[SolO]]]

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 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 That God Made

And The Wedding Guest's
A Sad And Wiser Man
And The Tale Goes On
And On And On And On.

©Official Lyric

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