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Empire Of The Clouds
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Iron Maiden
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To ride the storm, to an empire of the clouds
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To ride the storm, they climbed aboard their silver ghost
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To ride the storm, to a kingdom that will come
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To ride the storm, and damn the rest, oblivion
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Royalty and dignitaries, brandy and cigars
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Gray Lady, giant of the skies, you hold them in your arms
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"The millionth chance," they laughed, "to take down His Majesty's craft."
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"To India," they say, "magic carpet float away," an October fateful day
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Mist is in the trees, stone sweats with the dew
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The morning sunrise, red before the blue
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Hanging at the mast, waiting for command
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His majesty's airship, the r101
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She's the biggest vessel built by man, a giant of the skies
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For all you unbelievers, the Titanic fits inside
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Drum roll tight, her canvas skin, silvered in the sun
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Never tested with the fury, with a beating yet to come
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The fury yet to come"¦.
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In the gathering gloom, the storm rising in the West
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The Coxswain stared into the plunging weather glass
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We must go now, we must take our chance with fate
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We must go now, for a politician, he can't be late
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The airship crew awake for thirty hours at full stretch,
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But the ship is in their backbone, every sinew, every inch
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She never flew at full speed, a trial never done
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Her fragile outer cover, her Achilles would become
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An Achilles yet to come...
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Sailors of the sky, a hardened breed
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Loyal to the king, and an airship creed
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The engines drum, the telegraph sounds
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Release the cords that bind us to the ground
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Said the Coxswain, "Sir, she's heavy, she'll never make this flight."
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Said the Captain, "Damn the cargo! We'll be on our way tonight."
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Groundlings cheered in wonder, as she backed off from the mast
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Baptizing them her water, from the ballast fore and aft
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Now she slips into our past"¦
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[Instrumental section starts with all instruments playing SOS Morse code]
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[Solos: Murray, Smith]
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Fighting the wind as it rolls you,
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Feeling the diesels that push you along
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Watching the Channel below you,
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Lower and lower, into the night
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Lights are passing below you
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Northern France, asleep in their beds
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Storm is raging around you,
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A million to one, that's what he said
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Reaper standing beside her
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With his scythe cuts to the bone
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Panic to make a decision
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Experienced men, asleep in their graves
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Her cover is ripped and she's drowning
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Rain is flooding into the hull
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Bleeding to death and she's falling
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Lifting gas is draining away
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"We're down lads!" came the cry, bow plunging from the sky
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Three thousand horses silent as the ship began to die
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The flares to guide her path ignited at the last
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The empire of the clouds, just ashes in our past
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Just ashes at the last"¦
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Here lie their dreams as I stand in the sun
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On the ground where they built, and the engines did run
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To the moon and the stars, now what have we done?
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Oh, the dreamers may die, but the dreams live on
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Dreams live on
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Dreams live on
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Now a shadow on a hill, the angel of the east
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The empire of the clouds may rest in peace
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And in a country churchyard, laid head to the mast
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Eight and forty souls, who came to die in France"¦
Empire of the Clouds
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