Hear the rime of the ancient mariner See his eyes as he stops one of three Mesme

Hear the rime of the ancient mariner See his eyes as he stops one of three Mesmerizes of 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 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, not 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 t