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Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
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Hear the rime of the ancient mariner
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See his eye as he stops one of three
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Mesmerises one of the wedding guests
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Stay here and listen to the nightmares of the sea.
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And the music plays on, as the bride passes by
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Caught by his spell and the mariner tells his tale.
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Driven south to the land of the snow and ice
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To a place where nobody's been
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Through the snow fog flies on the albatross
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Hailed in god's name, hoping good luck it brings.
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And the ship sails on, back to the north
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Through the fog and ice and the albatross follows on.
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The mariner kills the bird of good omen
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His shipmates cry against what he's done
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But when the fog clears, they justify him
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And make themselves a part of the crime.
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Sailing on and on and north across the sea
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Sailing on and on and north 'til all is calm.
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The albatross begins with it's vengeance
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A terrible curse a thirst has begun
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His shipmates blame bad luck on the mariner
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About his neck, the dead bird is hung.
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And the curse goes on and on at sea
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And the curse goes on and on for them and me.
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'Day after day, day after day,
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we stuck nor breath nor motion
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As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean
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Water, water everywhere and
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all the boards did shrink
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Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink.'
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There calls the mariner
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There comes a ship over the line
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But how can she sail with no wind in her sails and no tide.
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See... onward she comes
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Onward she nears out of the sun
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See, she has no crew
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She has no life, wait but here's two.
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Death and she life in death,
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They throw their dice for the crew
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She wins the mariner and he belongs to her now.
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Then... crew one by one
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They drop down dead, two hundred men
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She... she, life in death.
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She lets him live, her chosen one.
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'One after one by the star dogged moon,
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Too quick for groan or sigh
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Each turned his facce with a ghastly pang
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And cursed me with his eye
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Four times fifty living men
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(And I heard nor sigh nor groan)
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With heavy thump, a lifeless lump,
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They dropped down one by one.'
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The curse it lives on in their eyes
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The mariner wished he'd die
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Along with the sea creatures
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But they lived on, so did he.
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And by the light of the moon
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He prays for their beauty not doom
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With heart he blesses them
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God's creatures all of them too.
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Then the spell starts to break
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The albatross falls from his neck
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Sinks down like lead into the sea
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Then down in falls comes the rain.
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Hear the groans of the long dead seamen
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See them stir and they start to rise
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Bodies lifted by good spirits
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None of them speak and they're lifelesss in their eyes
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And revenge is still sought, penance starts again
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Cast into a trance and the nightmare carries on.
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Now the curse is finally lifted
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And the mariner sights his home
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Spirits go fromhe long dead bodies
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Form their own light and the mariner's left alone.
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And then a boat came sailing towards him
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It was a joy he could not believe
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The pilot's boat, his son and the hermit,
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Penance of life will fall onto him.
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And the ship sinks like lead into the sea
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And the hermit shrieves the mariner of his sins.
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The mariner's bound to tell of his story
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To tell this tale wherever he goes
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To teach god's word by his own example
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That we must love all things thaat God made.
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And the wedding guest's a sad and wiser man
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And the tale goes on and on and on.
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